2017
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Ryoji Ikeda’s latest work is an orchestra of sine wave synths playing through 100 cars
As part of RBMA L.A Festival, Ryoji Ikeda presented a new piece called A [for 100 cars], another one based in his exploration of sine waves. This time the concert was done through the custom sound systems of 100…
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The World is Sound @ Robin Museum
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“The Ears Between Worlds Are Always Speaking”, Amplifying Opera through Sonic Weapons in Aristotle’s Lyceum
The Ears Between Worlds Are Always Speaking is a sound project by Postcommodity, presented at this year’s Documenta 14 art exhibition, which took place in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece. “The Ears Between Worlds Are Always Speaking is a long-form, 2 channel hyper-directional…
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More Sound Art Matters: Objects, Sounds, Materialism/Realism, Speculative Vibrations
Remember those amazing lectures from the past Sound Art Matters Conference 2016, uploaded by The Faculty of Arts of Aarhus Universitet uploaded to YouTube? During the recent months, they have been adding more, including some great lectures and commentaries on the current…
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New Books from Bloomsbury: Gallery Sound, Immanence and Immersion
Bloomsbury has two new books in their music/sound studies academic series: Gallery Sound by Calleb Kelly Bloomsbury / Amazon Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art…
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Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary Art Will Schrimshaw Immersion is the new orthodoxy. Within the production, curation and critique of sound art, as well as within the broader fields of sound studies and auditory culture, the…