Milo Taylor’s A History of Sound Art
One Artist Milo mentioned was Janet Cardiff. I enjoyed this video on ‘The Forty Part Motet’ I found. A piece for 40 voices, where each singer is designated a speaker within the installation, a sculpture where you can walk inside the piece of music, and depending on your where you are situatated hear different levels of the 40 individual speakers picking up on the different timbres and parts of each singer with a clarity and freedom. In the sense that the experience for the listener is unique. It’s similar in concept to Jessica Ekonome’s piece, where she spoke about sitting within quadraphonic sound and existing within a chord.
http://www.soundartarchive.net/A%20History%20of%20Sound%20Art.html
There is a moment in this installation where the singers are filmed in between each piece they perform, this creates a moment of listening where you can hear the performers of the piece and the performers humanity. I like this idea of unknowingly being a part of a greater piece, like the performers are unaware of the touching nature of a intimidate side to the inner workings of their craft.
Points of potential research from today:
Phenomenology
Cultural Perspectives
Cathy Lane – Exploring limits of sound, what can we be and what can we do with sound.
Charlie Fox – Constantly immersed in sound, information is constantly around but we do not take it in.
Ros Bandt – Social listening, tells us a lot the social fabric of our environment- i.e if we were in Morroco.
Mark Katz Capturing Sound
Sound Souveniers J Van Dijck
Michael Chien
The Sound Handbook
Perfecting Sound Forever Greg Milner
The Audible Past – Jonathon Sterne