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If we are open to these sound spaces by Robin Minard, the experience of listening ? in contrast to listening in the concert hall ? is suddenly no longer limited by time. Those approaching the installations can return, pass or dwell. In his search for an "ecological balance of sound? in our everyday world, an extensive Ĺ“uvre has arisen over the course of 35 years, in which visual and acoustic perceptions merge, triggering our awareness that the surroundings of our daily lives are also sound spaces.
Presents the latest sound installations of the internationally renowned Canadian artist Robin Minard.
The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework
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A state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of electroacoustic music, which includes discussions of a wide range of works.
Speechsong is a work of imaginative musicology that addresses the engimas of Schoenberg and Gould, of singing and speaking, of Moses und Aron, of technology and being. Its point of departure is Gould's last public performance, given at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where a number of Schoenberg's works were performed during his California exile. It is here, after that last performance, that Gould encounters a spectral Schoenberg in a staged conversation that explores Schoenberg's travails in rethinking the fundamentals of Western music. This first part of Speechsong recalls Schoenberg's operatic masterpiece, Moses und Aron, in which the divinely inspired Moses seeks the help of h...
This book focuses on music, sound and space and how they have been employed to transform public and private experience.