Sounding Art
Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music
Katharine Norman
Available from Amazon and from Ashgate Publications (www.ashgate.com) - cheaper direct from the publisher.
CONTENTS
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Sounding... ...spaces
- Concrete tales and touching times [Xenakis, Philips pavilion, small and tactile sounds, microscopic time and Henri Bergson. Magali Babin, Ryoji Ikeda]
- Several infinities (an emblem book) [metaphors of perspective/space and flight, Bachelard, Da Vinci, works by Luc Ferrari, Jonathan Harvey, Luigi Ceccarelli, Phill Niblock]
- With no direction home [maps and cartographers, documentary sounds, sound ecology, composed listening. Peter Cusack, Barry Truax, Paul Lansky, Francisco Lopez]
- 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]
- Speak/Listen [radio 'voice' of authority, radio art, voice, unheard voices. Lotta Erickson, Evelyn Ficarra, Cathy Lane, Pamela Z]
- 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, R.D. Laing]
- Beyond the limit and the line [noise as metaphor, as pornographic sound, as transgression. Sarah Vaughan, Glenn Gould, Autechre, Merzbow]
- The Endnotes [appropriation and plunder, cover versions, pop, technology as the subject. John Oswald, Terre Thaemlitz, Martin Tétreault]
Please note: the hard copy of the book comes with a CD of examples. My book is available from Ashgate (and Amazon)