Showing posts with label sound art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sound art. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Dr Angus Carlyle Paper Abstract
From Afar
This speculative presentation will explore how notions of proximity and distance modulate our experiences of sound, including sound that is the result of artistic intervention. Layering ideas drawn from acoustics and perception over the top of themes emerging from anthropology, philosophy, literature and folklore, the intention is to animate the concept of distance as one that might make a different sense out of the experience of listening.
Distance – geographic distance, temporal distance and cultural distance – might find its mechanical corollary in the 'radio', a term I will understand as an abbreviation for any apparatus that can bring sound from far to near.
Angus Carlyle is a writer, artist and academic. In parallel to a long-standing engagement with contemporary photography, his writing has tackled subjects as diverse as the suicide of Guy Debord and the sense of place experienced by long-distance truck drivers. He edited Autumn Leaves: Sound and Environment in Artistic Practice for Double Entendre and compiled an award-winning album to accompany the book.
His explorations of sound in artistic contexts have involved exhibiting at various galleries, appearing on CDs and performing. He co-curated the Sound Escapes exhibition at Space in London and his first solo CD, Some Memories of Bamboo is released by Gruenrekorder in the Autumn.
This speculative presentation will explore how notions of proximity and distance modulate our experiences of sound, including sound that is the result of artistic intervention. Layering ideas drawn from acoustics and perception over the top of themes emerging from anthropology, philosophy, literature and folklore, the intention is to animate the concept of distance as one that might make a different sense out of the experience of listening.
Distance – geographic distance, temporal distance and cultural distance – might find its mechanical corollary in the 'radio', a term I will understand as an abbreviation for any apparatus that can bring sound from far to near.
Angus Carlyle is a writer, artist and academic. In parallel to a long-standing engagement with contemporary photography, his writing has tackled subjects as diverse as the suicide of Guy Debord and the sense of place experienced by long-distance truck drivers. He edited Autumn Leaves: Sound and Environment in Artistic Practice for Double Entendre and compiled an award-winning album to accompany the book.
His explorations of sound in artistic contexts have involved exhibiting at various galleries, appearing on CDs and performing. He co-curated the Sound Escapes exhibition at Space in London and his first solo CD, Some Memories of Bamboo is released by Gruenrekorder in the Autumn.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Keynote Paper by Dr Kersten Glandien
Radio & SoundArt: Ties & Convolutions
Understanding RadioArt as a specific kind of audio art, this paper will look at the manifold interconnections between SoundArt on and off air. Over the last 50 years the diverse practice of SoundArt has developed many links to radio: as SoundArt using radio technology; as radiogenic components of multi-medial SoundArt; as audio art produced for, or commissioned and broadcast by, radio stations; as live events initiated by radio producers outside the institution of radio and, more recently - alongside the development of digital media and the media fusion consequent upon it - as multimedia art.
The paper will discuss the nature of these interconnections in their aesthetic, conceptual, technological and institutional dimensions. It will trace SoundArt’s encounter with radio technology in the ‘60s, scan its endorsement by public radio institutions in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s and, finally, reflect on both the rise of independent radio activity, and the recent decline of RadioArt in public radio, in the light of increasing commercialisation and seismic technological change.
Dr Kersten Glandien is an author, researcher and lecturer in the fields of SoundArts, Aesthetics and Contemporary Arts, living in London. Born 1953 in Germany, she studied Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art History at the University of St.Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. She worked as lecturer and researcher at the Technical University Dresden, at the Music College Dresden (1977-1982) and as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Academy of Science in Berlin (1982-1989). In 1985 she got her PhD in Philosophy/ Aesthetics. Her fields of expertise span the aesthetics of Art, Architecture, Design and Music. In 1989 she moved to England, where she worked freelance as writer and curator for several years. In 1993 she took on an Adjunct Professorship at Richmond - The American International University in London - where she teaches Postmodernism (MA) and Contemporary Visual Culture and, previously, Experimental Music. In 2003 she was called to the University of Brighton, where she developed and teaches SoundArt studies.
http://kerstenglandien.com
Understanding RadioArt as a specific kind of audio art, this paper will look at the manifold interconnections between SoundArt on and off air. Over the last 50 years the diverse practice of SoundArt has developed many links to radio: as SoundArt using radio technology; as radiogenic components of multi-medial SoundArt; as audio art produced for, or commissioned and broadcast by, radio stations; as live events initiated by radio producers outside the institution of radio and, more recently - alongside the development of digital media and the media fusion consequent upon it - as multimedia art.
The paper will discuss the nature of these interconnections in their aesthetic, conceptual, technological and institutional dimensions. It will trace SoundArt’s encounter with radio technology in the ‘60s, scan its endorsement by public radio institutions in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s and, finally, reflect on both the rise of independent radio activity, and the recent decline of RadioArt in public radio, in the light of increasing commercialisation and seismic technological change.
Dr Kersten Glandien is an author, researcher and lecturer in the fields of SoundArts, Aesthetics and Contemporary Arts, living in London. Born 1953 in Germany, she studied Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art History at the University of St.Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. She worked as lecturer and researcher at the Technical University Dresden, at the Music College Dresden (1977-1982) and as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Academy of Science in Berlin (1982-1989). In 1985 she got her PhD in Philosophy/ Aesthetics. Her fields of expertise span the aesthetics of Art, Architecture, Design and Music. In 1989 she moved to England, where she worked freelance as writer and curator for several years. In 1993 she took on an Adjunct Professorship at Richmond - The American International University in London - where she teaches Postmodernism (MA) and Contemporary Visual Culture and, previously, Experimental Music. In 2003 she was called to the University of Brighton, where she developed and teaches SoundArt studies.
http://kerstenglandien.com
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