Ryoji Ikeda: dataphonics
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Japan's leading electronic composer and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) focuses on the building blocks of sound and aural minutiae, often deploying frequencies at the very edges of human hearing. His albums +/- (1997) and Matrix (2001) spread this soundworld of sine waves and ambient glitchery to a wider audience; since then, he has exhibited and collaborated(...)
Ryoji Ikeda: dataphonics
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Japan's leading electronic composer and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda (born 1966) focuses on the building blocks of sound and aural minutiae, often deploying frequencies at the very edges of human hearing. His albums +/- (1997) and Matrix (2001) spread this soundworld of sine waves and ambient glitchery to a wider audience; since then, he has exhibited and collaborated (notably with Carsten Nicolai) across the world. A homage to Musique Concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer's Solfege de l'objet sonore, Dataphonics began as a monthly broadcast on France culture's Atelier de Création Radiophonique, in which Ikeda created a highly physical auditory experience based on the idea of binary-logic data made audible, “to materialize the invisible domain of ‘totally pure digital data.'” This book and CD includes spreads of graphic scores, codes, symbols and the composition itself, recomposed from the ten segments in which it was originally conceived.
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Soundwalk collective: medea
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Soundwalk is an international sound collective founded in the early 2000s by Stephan Crasneanscki and based in New York City. In the summer of 2011, the collective retraced Medea’s mythical journey along the coast of the Black Sea, collecting fragments of voices, music, Morse code and ambient sound, collaging them into a work of sound art. The book follows the sound(...)
Soundwalk collective: medea
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Soundwalk is an international sound collective founded in the early 2000s by Stephan Crasneanscki and based in New York City. In the summer of 2011, the collective retraced Medea’s mythical journey along the coast of the Black Sea, collecting fragments of voices, music, Morse code and ambient sound, collaging them into a work of sound art. The book follows the sound composition of the CD (included here) and also gathers photographs by Stephan Crasneanscki and texts by Arthur Larrue.
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat(...)
Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear
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Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread - to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard - the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths
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Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense—as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. This publication explodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.
Reason and resonance: a history of modern aurality
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Hearing has traditionally been regarded as the second sense—as somehow less rational and less modern than the first sense, sight. This publication explodes this myth by reconstructing the process through which the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.
Acoustics
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This publication brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image. The full spectrum of audiovisual art and phenomena is addressed in 35 dictionary entries, and in-depth essays treat overarching aesthetic issues, while individual works--including projects by John Cage and Chicks on Speed--are represented in audiovisual documentation and(...)
Audiovisuology compendium: see this sound
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This publication brings together texts on the various art forms that have combined sound and image. The full spectrum of audiovisual art and phenomena is addressed in 35 dictionary entries, and in-depth essays treat overarching aesthetic issues, while individual works--including projects by John Cage and Chicks on Speed--are represented in audiovisual documentation and scientific comment. The list of definitions and terms elucidated by various prominent authors includes gesamtkunstwerk, music theatre, animation film, light shows, music videos, sound art, expanded cinema, text-image analogies, synchronization, electronic transformation and software.
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Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of(...)
Resonance: Essays on the intersection of music and architecture
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Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical performance.
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April 2007
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Is writing about sound like dancing about architecture? Not when it's done by New Zealand's Bruce Russell, who works in sound under his own name and as a member of The Dead C. A past member of A Handful of Dust, Russell is also known for curating the internationally noted record labels XPRESSWAY and Corpus Hermeticum. This collection of essays written over the last 16(...)
Bruce Russell: Left-handed blows: Writing on sound 1993-2009
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Is writing about sound like dancing about architecture? Not when it's done by New Zealand's Bruce Russell, who works in sound under his own name and as a member of The Dead C. A past member of A Handful of Dust, Russell is also known for curating the internationally noted record labels XPRESSWAY and Corpus Hermeticum. This collection of essays written over the last 16 years reflects on sound, its role in culture, and Russell's thoughts toward a technique of incognito. Includes online essays, dialogs, liner notes, catalog contributions and most of the previously published contents of Logopandocy: the journal of vain erudition.
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Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord.
Harmonograph : a visual guide to the mathematics of music
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Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord.
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August 2002
Acoustics
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New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicology, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’ statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts,(...)
Sound: Documents of contemporary art
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New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicology, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists’ statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts, philosophical reflections on the meanings of noise and silence, dialogues between art and music, investigations of the role of listening and acoustic space, and a comprehensive survey of sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present.
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L’acoustique architecturale cherche à favoriser l’écoute ou à protéger du bruit. Dans les deux cas, il est nécessaire de comprendre comment le son se propage dans l’espace afin d’en identifier le cheminement et la réception. Cette publication initie à cette problématique et explique les grandes règles de l’isolation et les techniques de base mais aussi les dernières(...)
Comprendre simplement l'acoustique des bâtiments, 2e édition
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L’acoustique architecturale cherche à favoriser l’écoute ou à protéger du bruit. Dans les deux cas, il est nécessaire de comprendre comment le son se propage dans l’espace afin d’en identifier le cheminement et la réception. Cette publication initie à cette problématique et explique les grandes règles de l’isolation et les techniques de base mais aussi les dernières avancées les plus innovantes, conformes aux exigences réglementaires.
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