Katharine Norman
Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions
through Electronic Music
Ashgate |
ASH 0754604268 | 2004
Contents
Sounding… …spaces
1. Concrete tales and touching times [Iannis
Xenakis, Philips pavilion, small and tactile sounds, microscopic time
and Henri Bergson. Magali Babin, Ryoji
Ikeda]
2. Several infinities (an emblem book) [metaphors of perspective/space and flight,
Bachelard, Da Vinci, works by
Luc Ferrari, Jonathan Harvey, Luigi Ceccarelli,
Phill Niblock]
Sounding… …worlds
3. With no direction home [maps and cartographers, documentary sounds, sound
ecology, composed listening. Peter Cusack, Barry Truax, Paul Lansky, Francisco
López]
4. The same trail twice: Talking Rain with Hildegard Westerkamp [a transcribed interview of a walk in the
rain with HW, and text on subject of recording, listening, re-hearing]
Sounding… …voices
5. Speak/Listen [radio ‘voice’ of authority, radio art, voice, unheard
voices. Lotta Erickson, Evelyn Ficarra, Cathy Lane,
Pamela Z]
6. Figure-toi: Listening to Sous le regard d’un soleil
noir by Francis Dhomont
[multi-layered analysis, issues of translation, aural inner worlds, psychology of
sound, schizophrenia, Ronald D Laing]
Sounding… …edges
7. Beyond the limit and the line [noise as metaphor, as pornographic sound, as
transgression. Sarah Vaughan, Glenn
Gould, Autechre, Merzbow]
8. The Endnotes [appropriation and plunder, cover versions, pop, technology as the
subject. John
Oswald, Terre
Thaemlitz, Martin Tétreault]
[240 pages + 1 CD-Audio]
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