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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Sound Art"”.
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Ecology and Environmentalism in Contemporary Sound Art
… engagement with such issues across every area of arts and culture. Across most major art forms, this trend has been identified, analysed and promoted both by critical studies in the growing field of ecocriticism, and by the curatorial recognition of new ‘ecological’ genres; however, to date there …
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ImMApp: An Immersive Database of Sound Art
… thesis addresses contemporary and historical sound art from a position informed by, on one hand, post-structural critical theory, and on the other, a practice-based exploration of contemporary digital technologies (MySQL, XML, XSLT, X3D). It proposes a critical ontological schema derived from …
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Axial; a Sound Art Work of an Oceanographic Expedition
Axial is a sound installation in which a cargo container is employed as a resonant object: resonant in its acoustic sense because the container is used as sound generator, but also resonant in its metaphorical connotation because the container and the generated sounds translate and represent the …
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Associating places: strategies for live, site specific, sound art performance
… bringing together many different disciplines in art, music, sound studies and performance. The methodology, contextually indebted to the dialogues of site specific art, performance, and sound improvisation, has emerged as a multi-disciplinary one, informed in part by the study of those artists …
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Associating Places: Strategies for Live, Site Specific, Sound Art Performance
… bringing together many different disciplines in art, music, sound studies and performance. The methodology, contextually indebted to the dialogues of site specific art, performance, and sound improvisation, has emerged as a multi-disciplinary one, informed in part by the study of those artists …
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The Listening Artist: On Listening as an Artistic Practice beyond Sound Art
… that: a) There is the position of the listening artist that is a distinct practice to that of the sound artist, operating with quite different political, philosophical and aesthetic concerns. b) Sound art’s canon of listening is insufficient for accounting for the range of listening at play in …
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From inputs to outputs: an investigation of process in sound art practice
This practice-based thesis aims to expand sound art discourse by considering process in sound art practice through an exploration of artists’ experiences. There is still relatively little debate about or critical reflection on the location or nature of process in contemporary sound art’s …
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Red Lake / Black Mine: Affective Bodies and Material Complicity in Sound Art Practice
… field recording, electroacoustic composition and sound art. It investigates how material—often considered inert—possesses agency, drawing the body of the artist to other affective bodies (sounds, objects, and actions) that exert influence on the creative process. The key methods include exploring …
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Breaking the sound barrier: Explorations in experimental sound, art, soundscape research and interactive systems
… between the three core inter-disciplines of sound art, interactive systems and soundscape research as the basis for the creation of a series of unique interactive sound installations and related projects. These works, created and presented by Interactive Agents, the author’s production …
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Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice.
… shape listening experiences in the context of sound art discourse. The research aim is to develop a contextual approach to sound art practice, informed by personal experience of listening to place. These challenges are summed up in pieces of performance art that also highlight the …
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Tracing the Compositional Process. Sound art that rewrites its own past: formation, praxis and a computer framework
… is electroacoustic computer-based music and sound art. It investigates a facet of composition which is often neglected or ill-defined: the process of composing itself and its embedding in time. Previous research mostly focused on instrumental composition or, when electronic music was …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
My research brings together sound art with the ritual of reading aloud the bible. When the bible is read aloud in worship, it is done by a single voice. I consider this single voice as a mono-voice of hegemony that hides and silences that plurality of voices that are present in scripture, with …
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Mapping Experiences of Inner Sounds
This practice based research expands the sound art discourse by analysing what I have termed ‘inner sounds’ — identifying, defining , and sounds we hear in both our conscious and in unconscious minds, similar to but different from an inner voice. Rarely, if ever, is the way we experience sounds our …
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Strings of Sound and Sense: Towards a Feminine Sonic
This dissertation listens to sound and sound art as sense, sensation, and sonic materiality. We make sense of the world from experience. The sense we make from sound is a subjective and intersubjective engagement with the sensoriality, audibility, and inaudibility of sound and its fluctuation. How …
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Addressing otherness in and through sound arts to establish intimacy and proximity as a form of co-creativity and as critical terms for discourse production
… approach to the critical understanding of sound arts, equipping makers and theorists to account for intimacy and proximity as fundamental elements at work within sound arts, both experientially and as part of meaning-making. The suggestion is that intimacy and proximity enable the …
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Syncwalk : a framework for locative audio composition
… of space, grows ever sharper. Location-aware sound art has the potential to apply this new technology in groundbreaking ways, but at present such work is hampered by the lack of a widely-accessible composition platform. In this work, I survey prominent works in the locative-sound art field and …
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Plastic modes of listening: affordance in constructed sound environments
… of listening modes, informs the creation of sound art installation, or more specifically as referred to in this thesis as constructed sound environments. The basis for the thesis has been a practiced based research where the aim and purpose of the written part of this PhD project has been to …
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Nothing Short of Complete Liberation: The Burroughsian Ideal of Space as Curatorial Strategy in Audial Art
… to an understanding of curatorial strategy and sound art practices by using an inferential approach to curating. The study uses analysis of the theories and tape experiments of William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) to explore curatorial problems occurring within sound-related gallery displays of …
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The Domestic Soundscape and beyond… presenting everyday sounds to audiences
… a seminal, difficult encounter with the realm of sound art, this section explores some of the problems involved with presenting everyday sounds to audiences and proposes that these problems might in part be solved by forming new presentational strategies. Problems discussed include the difficulty …
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How to DO(O) Things with Sounds: A Performative (Re)User Manual
Contemporary theorising within the field of sound art practice emphasises the pursuit and function of listening as a central tenet in forming understanding and content. This research goes some way to re-balance this bias by shifting the weight of significance from listening to sounding and its …
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