A Topography of Sound Art

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete

doi:10.34632/jsta.2021.9806

Bertrand Chavarria-Aldrete

Lund University

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Austrian artist and director of ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Peter Weibel (Odessa, 1944), curates a book/catalogue of the mythical exhibition Sound Art, Sound as Medium of Art, that took place between March 2012 and February 2013 in Karlsruhe, with nearly one thousand images of sound art pieces. Along with a very detailed historical trace of sound as a form of art, the book contains different texts and essays about sound and its history written by renowned and iconic figures in art all articulated in five main sections. A very important work for any artist or amateur interested in sound and music.

Keywords: Sound art, Peter Weibel, ZKM, Exhibition, Catalogue

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Guest editors: José Alberto Gomes, Miguel Carvalhais, and Henrique Portovedo

Sound today represents much more than a musical element or even an acoustic and physical phenomenon. Since the 1970s, the singularity impulse of the moment in music has shaped new paths and disciplines with its new grammars and wills. Art through sound, as a practice, takes advantage, describes, analyzes, executes and interrogates the condition of the sound and the processes by which it operates. Thus, any remaining musical argument is negated by a predominant extravagance of unintentionality, multiplicity, silence or noise. At the same time, the role of technology in this evolution is undeniable. The development and use of computational tools and media have become a constant and the majority of the art through sound is affected by it, in a symbiosis with technology that radically transforms the landscape for the practice of the arts.This special issue of the JSTA, intend to address sound as a bundle of practices that can either arise from, lead to, or use sound as a tool of world building.

DOI https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2021.13.1

Published 2021-04-29

DOI https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2021.9806

Published 2021-04-01

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Chavarria-Aldrete, B. (2021). A Topography of Sound Art. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 13(1), 106-109. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2021.9806

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Vol 13 No 1 (2021): Audible (Art): The Invisible Connections Between Sound, Music, and Sound Art

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