Main entry:

Migone, Christof.

Title & Author:

Sonic somatic : performances of the unsound body / by Christof Migone.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Errant Bodies Press, ©2012.

Description:

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Audio issues ; v. 5

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.
Ch. One Soundmutesilence -- 1. Heretofore Unheard Histories Of Air Disturbances -- 1.1. Sound Itself -- 1.2. Unheard Of -- 1.3. Breakdown -- 2. Taciturntablism -- 2.1. Reductio -- 2.2. Moot Mute -- 3. Disquietude -- 3.1. This Quiet -- 3.2. Resisting Arrest: The Speechless Body In Motion -- ch. Two Soundmouthbody -- 1. Mouth Pores -- 1.1. Mouth Agape -- 1.2. Frozen Speech -- 2. Flatus Vocis: Somatic Winds -- 2.1. South Winds -- 2.2. Incontinence -- 2.3. Exit Wound -- 3. Leaks: Stories Of The Spit Self -- ch. Three Soundtimeslanguage -- 1. Utter The Stutter -- 1.1. The Performance Of Inarticulation And Porosity -- 1.2. Remainder -- 1.3. Arrhythmia And Claustrophilia -- 1.4. Scream And Run, Run, Run -- 2. Metronomics -- 2.1. Vexations -- 2.2. Furniture Audience -- 2.3. It Never Ends -- ch. Four Soundspacebeyond -- 1. Volume -- 1.1. Of Confinement And Infinity -- 1.2. With In -- 1.3. Provisional Place And Speech -- 1.4. Slippery Threads -- 2. Depth Charges -- 2.1. Pneumatics -- 2.2. Space Is The Place Is The Time Is The Song -- 2.3. Frictions: Sound Objects And Surfaces -- 2.4. Ricochets -- 2.5. The Announcement Which Stops The Shot -- 3. As It Empties Out -- CODA -- 1. Statement On The State Of Sound Art.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This book delineates a territory of investigation for sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and literary works. In doing so, Migone gives radical definition to an auditory study that includes the complexity of silence and mutism, identity and abjecthood, and language and its stutterances. The recurring site of these stagings is the somatic under all its forms: embodied and disembodied, fragmented and amplified, vocal and mute. Concrete sites that are investigated include: Antonin Artaud's writings, Alvin Lucier's recording I am sitting in a room, Erik Satie's composition Vexations, Marina Abramovic's performance Rhythm 0, Adrian Piper's Untitled Performance for Max's Kansas City, Melville's short story Bartleby, the Scrivener, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson's documentary film First Contact, and John Cage's composition 4'3''." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9780982743942 (paperback)
0982743947 (paperback)

Subject:

Sound in art.
Ljudkonst.
Ljud i konsten.

Added entries:

Audio issues ; v. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279151
Call No.: BIB 215057
Status: Available