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A History of Sound Art
I listen, I hear, I obey.Does the exquisitely
dissonant instuon of Sound Art,
and its subsequent ordering of desire,
ensure that we subscribe to a genealogythrough which it is governed?
In this composion I hear a rhizomic
collecve, which obeys, albeit
contradictorily, a government
of past and future me.
Tomtoumtomtoumtomtoum; the Cage
of Sound Arts past. I hear hindsight.
Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa; thesound of sonic arts future.
I hear silence, an absent sense of
knowing, of the heard, that I project into
a future. As a listener at the end of this
work I feel like a wobbly toddler looking
in the mirror and happily hallucinang in
my own disunity. I am le with the idea
of an uncomfortable wholeness. The
reconciliaon of sonic arts past with its
future seems like an empirical illusion.
Ennioa Neoptolomus
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A Hackney Balcony
Cathy Lane
Sleep Research Facilityd-deck
Charlie Fox
Ros Bandt
John Cage
Introducon
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CATHY LANE Composer and sound designer.Works include composions and sound design for
large scale outdoor theatre producons, lm and
video soundtracks, live performance and installa-
on work.
CHARLIE FOX has been involved in the growth ofthe media arts in Canada, having produced a large
body of video, sound, lm and visual art. Fox cur-
rently resides in Regina where he is an Assistant
Professor of Film and Video at the University of
Regina.
JOHN CAGE American composerphilosopher,poet, music theorist, arst, printmaker,and
amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A
pioneer of chance music, electronic music and
non-standard use of musical instruments, Cagewas one of the leading gures of the post-war
avant-garde. Crics have lauded him as one of the
most inuenal American composers of the 20th
century.
BRANDON LABELLE is an arst and writer. Hiswork explores the space between sound andsociality, using performance and on-site construc-
ons as creave supplements to exisng condi-
ons.
JANET CARDIFF is perhaps best known for hersignature audio walks, which she has made in Lon-
don, Florence, Pisburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis,
and elsewhere. Her gallery installaons - oen
made with George Bures Miller, Cardis husband
and arsc collaborator--use the narrave and
technical language of lm noir to create lush,suspenseful sound and video works.
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Janet Cardi
Brandon LaBelle
Enrico Carusoo sole mio
Thomas Alva EdisonDickson Sound Film (1897)
Marcel DuchampInterview
Hugo BallKarawane (1916)
Early Pracces Dada
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THOMAS EDISON was more responsible than anyone else for creang the modern world No one
did more to shape the physical/cultural makeup of
present day civilizaon. he invented the phono-graph and recording.
MARCEL DUCHAMP French arst whose work ismost oen associated with the Dadaist and Sur-
realist movements. He famously presented ready-
made found objects as art objects in galleries.
HUGO BALL was a German author, poet and oneof the leading Dada arsts. He was an inventor
of dadaist phonec poetry and maintained that
we must withdraw into the deepest alchemy
of words, reserving to poetry its most sacredground.
LEON THEREMIN was a Russian inventor and in-novator of electrical devices. His 1919 invenon of
the Theremin, the worlds rst electronic musicalinstrument gained him worldwide notoriety.
FILIPPO MARINETTI The poet and guiding light ofFuturism. Marine issued the rst Futurist mani-
festo. He pronounced himself in favour of the
destrucon of the tradional syntax, the abolion
of adjecves and adverbs.
KURT SCHWITTERS worked in several genres andmedia, including Dada, Construcvism, Surreal-
ism, poetry, sound, painng, sculpture, graphic
design, typography and what came to be knownas installaon art.
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Walter RumannWeekend
Greek Rembeko
Duke EllingtonIt dont Mean a Thing(If it Aint Got that Swing) (1931)
Vess L. OssmanDixie Medly
Leon ThereminGrechaninov Step
Marinela baaglia di Adrianopoli-1926 (recorded 1935)
Kurt SchwiersUrsonate
Futurist Noise Instruments (Italy)
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John Cage 433(USA)
WALTER RUTTMANN had a background as apainter, lmmaker, a cellist and violinist he made
Weekend in 1928. The work was commissioned by
Hans Flesch, director of the Berlin Radio Hour. he
was concerned with exploing the aesthec and
technical opportunies of me baced media.
HARRY PARTCH American composer and instru-ment creator. He was one of the rst tweneth-
century composers to work extensively and
systemacally with microtonal scales, wring
much of his music for custom-made instrumentsthat he built himself.
ANTONIN ARTAUD French playwright, poet, actorand theatre director. He believed that theatre
should aect the audience as much as possi-
ble, therefore he used a mixture of strange and
disturbing forms of lighng, sound, and otherperformance elements. Words are suggesve
sounds and should be delivered for the sake of
their sonority, explosiveness, sensuous and as-
sociave properes.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER French composer, writer,broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acous-
cian. His denion of the sound object was that,
through the process of reduced listening, one
should hear sound material purely as sound,
divorced from any associaons with its physical
origins. He coined the term musique concrte andby innovang recording and sampling techniques.
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John CageImaginary Landscapes No. 1 (1939)
Nellie LutcherFine Brown Frame (1948)
Antonin ArtaudPour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu (1947)
Pierre Schaeer & Pierre HenrySymphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (1950)
Harry PartchHarmonic Cannon & Bass Marimba
Post WWII
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LOUIS & BEBE BARRONTwo American pioneersin the eld of electronic music. They are credited
with wring the rst electronic music for magnec
tape, and the rst enrely electronic lm score forthe MGM movie Forbidden Planet.
IANNIS XENAKIS Composer, music theorist andarchitect-engineer, Xenakis pioneered the use
of mathemacal models in music, and was also
an important inuence on the development ofelectronic music.
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Bobby DarinDream Lover
Charles MingusSelf Portrait in ThreeColors (1959)
Iannis XenakisMetastasis
Louis & Bebe BarronForbidden Planet (interviewand sounds) (1956)
1949-55 Musique concrte (France)
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MORTON FELDMAN American composer whoseworks are characterized by notaonal innovaons
which he developed to create his characterisc
sound: a generally quiet and slowly evolving
music.
PAULINE OLIVEROS American accordionist andcomposer who is a central gure in the develop -
ment of post-war electronic art music. She has
wrien books, formulated new music theories and
invesgated new ways to focus aenon on music
including her concepts of Deep Listening andsonic awareness.
GEORGE MACIUNAS established strangely radicalmodes of presentaon in the name of Fluxus.
Tradional works of art were to be replaced by
Fluxus. Art was to be so uncomplicated that itcould be realized by anyone, anywhere.
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Iannis XenakisConcrete PH
Pauline OliverosTime Perspecves (1959)
George BrechtInterview
Morton FeldmanVoice, Violin and Piano
Morton FeldmanInterview
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RICHARD MAXFIELD A composer of instrumental,electro-acousc, and electronic music and acve
member of the Fluxus group. Among his innova-
ons with tape music were the simultaneous per-formance of improvised instrumental solos with
tapes based upon samples of the same soloist, re-
eding of tapes before each public performance
so that the pieces were not xed in a single form,
and the use of the erase head of the tape machine
as a sound source.
DICK HIGGINS Composer, poet, printer, andearly Fluxus arst. He was an early and ardent
proponent and user of computers as a tool for
art making, dang back to the mid-sixes, when
Alison Knowles and he created the rst computergenerated literary textes.
SPIKE JONES A popular musician and bandleaderspecializing in performing sarical arrangements
of popular songs. Ballads and classical works re -
ceiving the Jones treatment would be punctuatedwith gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous
vocals.
GROUP ONGAKU Japanese collecve exploringmusical improvisaon inthe late ies and early
sises using found objects, random instruments,
tape machines, and radios.
BRION GYSIN Performance arst best known forhis redevelopment of the cut-up technique used
by William Burroughs and the invenon of the
Dreamachine, a icker device designed as an artobject to be viewed with the eyes closed.
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Marilyn MonroeHappy Birthday (1962)
Link WrayRumble
Richard MaxeldPastoral Symphony
Dick HigginsDanger Music No. 17 (1961)
Nina SimoneMr Bojangles
Spike JonesYes! We have No Bananas
Group OngakuAutomasm
Brion GysinPermutaons
Fluxus
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BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOPOne of the soundeects units of the BBC. Created to produce
eects and new music for radio. The innovavemusic and techniques used by the Workshop
made it one of the most signicant inuences on
electronic music today.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN German composer,widely acknowledged by crics as one of the most
important and controversial composers of the
tweneth century. He is known for his ground-
breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (con-
trolled chance) in serial composion, and musical
spaalizaon. He called for new kinds of concert
halls to be built, suited to the requirements ofspaal music.
LA MONTE YOUNGpioneered the concept of ex-tended me duraons in contemporary music, his
work has played a central role in the development
of the use of Just Intonaon in tweneth-century
music and the growth of the Minimalist style.
TOD DOCKSTADER A self-taught American audio-visual specialist and early praconer of musique
concrte. His early tape splicing music is mul -
fariously rich and highly spaalised using bothelectronic sounds and concrete sounds.
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BBC Radiophonic WorkshopDr. Who Theme (1963)
Brandon LaBelle interviewing Max Neuhaus
Brion GysinPoets dont own Words
Karlheinz StockhausenKontakte
John CageInterview
Tod DockstaderWater music
La Monte Young89 VIv
1960sElektronische Musik (Germany) Conceptual Art (Internaonal)
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GEORGE BRECHT American conceptual arst andavant-arde composer. He was a key member of
the Fluxus movement.It did not fundamentally
maer if a score was executed, or if, when execut-
ed, it would be perceived as such by anyone other
than its performer(s). Only the idea counted.
MAX NEUHAUS percussionist and interpreter ofcontemporary music who moved on to become
a pioneer of work that extended sound as an
autonomous medium in the domain of contempo -
rary art. He created numerous sound installaonsin public spaces and on the radio.
LUC FERRARI French composer, inially classi-cally trained, he was inuenced by Varse and
Pierre Schaeer and created work placing sound
objects in the me and space, from both an audioand psychological point of view. His use of eld
recordings mixed with electronic sounds created
abstract narraves and developed composions
which he called concepts.
ALVIN LUCIER American composer of experimen-tal music and sound installaons that explore
acousc phenomena and auditory percepon.
Much of his work is inuenced by science and
explores the physical properes of sound itself:
resonance of spaces, phase interference between
closely-tuned pitches, and the transmission ofsound through physical media.
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Pink FloydSee Emily Play (1967)
Electric PrunesI Had Too much to Dream Last Night
Jimi HendrixFoxy Lady (1967)
Luc FerrariMusic Promenade
Max Neuhausinterview
George BrechtArsts by Telephone interview
Alvin LucierSoundwaves documentary
Alvin LucierI am Sing in a Room (1969)
1960sSoundwalk (USA)
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Electro-acousc Music (Sonic Art) (England)
BRUCE NAUMAN is a pioneer of video art but alsoused performance, sculpture and neon. Sound in
his arsc pracce has been used as pure audio
works, somemes incorporated as an element in
videos or in large-scale architectural installaons.
Language has always been a key element in his
work.
BERNARD PARMEGIANI is best known for his elec-tronic and acousmac music. He joined the GRM
in France early on and collaborated with notable
composers and lmmakers.
FRANOIS BAYLE French composer of musiqueconcrte and acousmac music. He was put in
charge of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM)
through which he organized concerts, radio
broadcasts, seminars and events celebrang
individual composers and supported technologicaldevelopments.
R. MURRAY SCHAFERCanadian composer, writer,music educator and environmentalist perhaps
best known for his World Soundscape Project and
concern for acousc ecology.
TREVOR WISHART has contributed to composingwith digital audio media, both xed and interac-
ve. He has also wrien extensively on the topic
of what he terms sonic art.
BARRY TRUAX Canadian composer who devel-oped the rst ever implementaon of real-me
granular synthesis and uses it oen for sampledsounds, and soundscapes.
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Bruce NaumanRhythmic Soundtrack
The WinstonsAmen Brother (1969)
Bernard ParmegianiPour en nir avec le pouvoir dOrphee
R. Murray SchaferWorld Soundscape Project
Franoise BayleRosace
Barry TruaxVancouver Soundscape (1973)
Trevor WishartRed Bird (1978)
Schafer & TruaxThe Changing Soundscapes of Canada
Soundscape / Acousc Ecology (Canada)
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Public Sound Installaon (USA)
DENIS SMALLEY Composer of electroacouscmusic, with a special interest in acousmac music.
Source sounds for his works may come from the
environment and are oen the starng point
for his pieces but he may also develop highly so-
phiscated mbres from scratch using computer
soware. He describes his approach as spectro-
morphological, featuring the development ofsounds in me.
HILDEGARD WESTERKAMPs career as a com-poser, educator, and radio arst started by joining
The World Soundscape Project and creang for
the Vancouver Co-operave Radio. It focuses on
environmental sound and acousc ecology. Her
composions deal with aspects of the acousc en-
vironment: with urban, rural or wilderness sound-
scapes, with the voices, with noise or silence,
music and media sounds, or with the sounds ofdierent cultures.
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Dennis SmalleyPentes
La Monte YoungDreamhouse
Terry FoxCat Labyrinth
Max NeuhausTimes Square installaon (1977)
Donna SummerI Feel Love (1977)
WirePink Flag (1977)
Hildegard WesterkampWhisper Study
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TERRY FOX Visual, performance, sound, video andinstallaon arst. He was an important gure inpost-minimal sculpture, conceptual art, perform-
ance, and video art on the West Coast.
LAURIE ANDERSON American experimentalperformance arst and musician who plays violin
and keyboards and sings in a variety of experi-
mental music and art rock styles. She has invented
several devices that she has used in her recordings
and performance art shows. In the late sevenes,
she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded
magnec tape on the bow instead of horsehairand a magnec tape head in the bridge.
THROBBING GRISTLE An avant-garde music, visualarts and performance group which developed
tape sampling techniques and were forerunnersof what later became known as Industrial Music.
Laurie AndersonAnybody Home?
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Cabaret VoltaireNag Nag Nag (1977)
King TubbyRema Dub Jah (1977)
David DunnSkydri
Max NeuhausRadio Net
Nam June PaikMy Jubilee ist unverhemmet
1970s
Sex PistolsPrey Vacant (1977)
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Plunderphonics / Sampling
LIMPE FUCHS Composer of acousc and visualhappenings who creates sound with unusual in-
struments. Based in Munich she has created along
with her partner sculptor unstructured perform-
ances using esoteric homemade instruments such
as audio-visual machines: light-ray oscillographs
and movement holograms.
BILL FONTANA creates sound sculptures that usethe human and/or natural environment as a living
source of musical informaon through networks
of simultaneous listening points that relay real
me acousc data to a common listening zone.
JOHN OSWALD Composer and media arst. In-spired by cut-up techniques of William Burroughs,
he coined the term Plunderphonics to describe his
pracce of using a recognized musical quote and
manipulang it in a mix with other recognizablemusical quotes.
GREGORY WHITEHEAD creates remarkablesound for radio, the stage and the gallery. Wring
extensively on the unique qualies of Radio Art.Radio happens in sound, at a perceptual level,
but the guts of radio are not sounds, but rather
the gaps between sending and receiving, between
transmission and audion.
WARREN BURT Composer, performer, video art-ist, sound poet, writer, instrument maker.
DAVID CUNNINGHAM His installaon worksexplore the real me experience of the acousc
qualies of a space. Other work has ranged from
pop music to work for television, lm and contem -porary dance.
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Barry TruaxArial
Pac Man
Warren Burt LoFi MelodicElectronics
Herbie HancockRockit
Laurie AndersonO Superman
Gregory WhiteheadEva can I stab bats in a cavE
Throbbing GristleDiscipline (Live)
Limpe FuchsRinging Material
John OswaldMystery Tapes x2 version 16
Bill FontanaLandscape Sculpture with Foghorns
David CunninghamBut everyone loved Dominic Lynch
Radio Art
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LEE RENALDO Best known for his role as guitaristwith Sonic Youth. He creates gallery installaons
using sound lm and text.
GORDON MONAHAN works for piano, loudspeak-ers, video, kinec sculpture, and computer-con-
trolled sound environments span various genresfrom avant-garde concert music to mul-media
installaon and sound art. As a composer and
sound arst, he juxtaposes the quantave and
qualitave aspects of natural acouscal phenom-
ena with elements of media technology, envi-
ronment, architecture, popular culture, and live
performance.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS An American novelist,poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Bur-
roughs was a primary gure of the Beat Gen-
eraon and a major postmodernist author whoaected popular culture as well as literature.
PAUL DEMARINIS has been working as an elec-tronic media arst since the early sevenes and
has created numerous performance works, soundand computer installaons and interacve elec-
tronic invenons. One of the rst arsts to use
computers in performance, Much of his recent
work deals with the areas of overlap between hu-
man communicaon and technology.
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY His work explores the fu-sion of ne art and audio cultures, transforming
sounds and music into a visible, physical form
through performance, collage, sculpture, installa-
on, photography and video. A pioneer of using
gramaphone records and turntables as musicalinstruments.
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Gordon MonahanSpeaker Swinging
The BugglesVideo Killed the Radio Star
Paul DeMarinisFireies
New OrderBlue Monday
Lee RenaldoThe Bridge
Chrisan MarclayNight Music (1984)
William Burroughs
Denis SmalleyWind Chimes (1987)
Video Art
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DAN LANDER Electro-acousc composer and
writer, his acvies as a radio arst, sound artspeaker, and promoter make him an important
gure in Canadian musique concrte.
GILLES GOBEIL His work focuses on acousmacand mixed music. His works fall close to what is
called cinema for the ear. Many of his pieces
have been inspired by literary works and aempt
to let us see through sound.
CHRISTOF MIGONE A muldisciplinary arstand writer. His work and research delves into
language, voice, bodies, performance, inmacy,complicity and endurance.
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI He is conviced that it isa responsibility of an arst in in the present day
to travel and work around the World in order to
learn and understand dierent cultures and tradi-ons and discover truth about ourselves and our
planet. In his latest work, his main concern is to
realize drama with sound - electronic and acousc
walls with the architectures of ruins transcribed in
the scores.
TRIMPIN KINETIC sculptor, sound arst, musician,and composer, most of whose pieces integrate
sculpture and music in some way, and many
of which make use of computers to play these
instruments. His work extends the tradional
boundaries of instruments and the sounds theyrecapable of producing.
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Dan LanderI am looking at my hand
Christof MigoneHeadholes
Gilles GobeilAssociaons Libre
1980s
Karlheinz StockhausenHelicopter Quartet (1991)
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NEGATIVLANDhave been creang records, CDs,video, ne art, books, radio and live performance
using appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing
original materials and original music with things
taken from corporately owned mass culture and
the world around them, Negavland re-arranges
these found bits and pieces to make them say andsuggest things that they never intended to.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ Creates sonic universes,
absolutely personal and iconoclasc, based on aprofound listening of the world.
JONTY HARRISON Electro-acousc composer,currently the director of the Birmingham Electro-
acousc Sound Theatre. He plays an acve role
in the musical life of Britain, serving on a number
of commiees, as well as conducng various
ensembles.
KIM CASCONE Composer and sound designer.Started out as music editor for David Lynch. He
oen works with computer coding as a composi-onal tool.
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The ProdigyOut of Space
Kim CasconeSpectral Space
NegavlandU2
TrimpinLiquid Percussion
Jonty HarrisonEt ainsi en suite
Francisco LopezEl Mundo Depues
1990sRave Culture
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BERNHARD LEITNER Creates sound-space ex-ploraons through architecture and sculpture.
Trained as an architect and urban planner, heconsiders sound and its movement, rhythm, and
intensity as events in me.
PAMELA Z Composer/performer and media arstwho works primarily with voice, live electronic
processing, sampling technology, and video.
STEVE RODEN. His work process uses variousforms of specic notaon (words, musical scores,
maps, etc.) and translates them through self in-
vented systems into scores; which then inuence
the process of painng, drawing, sculpture, andsound composion.
PETER VGEL A pioneer in the eld of interacveelectronic sculpture. The interacve sensiv-
ity of his construcons ulizes photocells and
microphones that react to spectators, creang an
experience of seeing and hearing unique improvi-
saons triggered by light and shadow.
CHRIS WATSON A sound recordist with a parcu-lar and passionate interest in recording the wild-life sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres
from around the world. Previously a founding
member of art punk group Cabaret Voltaire.
TERRE THAMELITZ Mul-media producer, writer,public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and
owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label.
Her work combines a crical look at identy poli-
cs - including gender, sexuality, class, linguiscs,
ethnicity and race - with an ongoing analysis of
the socio-economics of commercial media pro-ducon.
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Bill Fontanainterview
Gregory WhiteheadThe Bone Trade
Terre ThaemlitzFragmentaon
Bernhard LeitnerTon Raum Variaonen
Peter VogelBerliner Klangwand
Aphex TwinDidgeridoo
Steve RodenSoundwalk Part 1
Pamela ZThe Muni Secon
Chris WatsonOutside the Circle of Fire
1990s Internet
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DAVID TOOP Writer, compoeser, improvisor andacademic with signicant presence in the Brishexperimental and improvised music scene and
writer of several acclaimed books on various
aspects of sound and music.
DISINFORMATIONA project by noise DJ andinstallaon arst Joe Banks who pioneered the
use of electromagnec (radio) noise from sources
such as live mains electricity, lightning, industrial
and IT hardware, laboratory equipment, trains,
magnec storms and the sun as the raw material
of musical and ne-art publicaons, exhibits andevents.
ATAU TANAKA Composer and performer in theeld of technology and music. His work oen
includes gestural data and applicaon of sensors
on body movements and spaces.
PHILIP JECK works with old records and recordplayers salvaged from junk shops turning them to
his own purposes.
CARSTEN NICOLAI seeks to overcome the separa-on of the sensual percepons of man, e.g. by
making sound and light frequencies perceivable
for both eyes and ears to sensise the viewer tothe connecon of the dierent sensory levels.
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David Toopinterview read by a bot
DisinformaonNaonal Grid
Dan LanderVirtual Reality
Alva NotoModule
Carsten Nicolaiinterview
Atau TanakaGlobal String
Philip JeckO the Record
2000s
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JUSTIN BENNETT Arst and composer workingwith sound and visual media.
PROJECT DARK Experimental group who created
limited-edion seven-inch singles made with hair,glass, steel, cheese and other strange recording
materials; these tracks were collected and ma-
nipulated further.
STEPHEN VITIELLO Electronic musician and soundarst Stephen Viello transforms incidental at-
mospheric noises into soundscapes that alter our
percepon of the surrounding environment.
JOHN BISCHOFF An early pioneer of live computermusic. He is known for his solo construcons in
real-me synthesis as well as his ground-breakingwork in computer network bands.
MARYANNE AMACHER Her major pieces have al-most exclusively been site specic, by using many
diuse sound sources (either not in the space or
speakers facing at the walls or oors) she would
create the psychoacousc illusions of sound
shapes/precense.
CHRISTINA KUBISCH Her work displays an arscdevelopment which is oen described as the syn-
thesis of arts - the discovery of acousc space
and the dimension of me in the visual arts on
the one hand, and a redenion of relaonshipsbetween material and form on the other.
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386DXSmells Like Teen Spirit
Jusn BenneRumours
Project DarkStep1, Step2, Step 3
Steven Viellointerviewed by Peter Traub
Chrisna KubischFunf Felder
David toop(read by a bot)
Maryanne AmacherPLAYTHING SoundCharacter
Steve VielloWorld Trade Centre Open House
John BischoPiano 7Hz
Online Music Distribuon
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ANDREAS BOSSHARD He conducts soundresearch in urban outdoor spaces, explored andsubsequently produced several large, parally
globally networked media projects. He explores
soundscape architecture for sounds that create
new spaces in order to emphasize the vercal
dimension, especially such as his Kaleidophone
sound spiral.
ANDREA POLLI Her work addresses issues relatedto science and technology in contemporary soci-
ety. She is interested in global systems, the real
me interconnecvity of these systems, and theeect of these systems on individuals.
STEVE BARSOTTI His various approaches to artmaking include photography, printmaking, per-
formance, invented instruments, improvisaon,
object recording, locaon recording, phonogra-phy, electro-acousc-pull-strange-sounds-from-
everyday-objects.
PETER CUSACK Sound arst, musician and en-vironmental recordist with a special interest in
environmental sound and acousc ecology.
IRIS GARRELFS Composer/performer intriguedby change, fascinated with voices and denitely
enamoured by technology. She oen uses her
voice as raw material, which she transmuted into
machine noises, choral works or pulverised intogranules of electroacousc babble and glitch.
01:15:00 01:16:00 01:17:00 01:18:00
Andres BosshardZyrruswolken
Bill FontanaMillenium Bridge
Peter CusackLake Baikal
Steve BarsoWerner
Iris GarrelfsDumplinks
Andrea PolliAtmospherics
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DJ SPOOKY Paul D. Miller A composer, mulmediaarst and writer. electronic and experimental hip
hop musician.
JAMES WEBB Pioneer of sound art in South Africa.But his producon extends far beyond that of
gallery installaons. Webb also works as a sound
designer, curator and teacher.
NICHOLAS COLLINS Pioneer in the use of micro-computers in live performance, and has made
extensive use of home-made electronic circuitry,
radio, found sound material, and transformedmusical instruments.
RAINER LINZ Composer and sound arst with along involvement in radio, music theatre, instru-
mental and electronic music. He is also an author
and publisher.
SALOM VOEGELIN is concerned with the pracceand philosophy of sound. Her work invesgates
truth, reference and con of identy and place
through sonic documents and narraves.
KARLHEINZ ESSL Composer and developer ofsoware environments.
MATTHEW MULLANE is a guitarist and somemecomputerist from Ohio.
01:19:00 01:20:00 01:21:00 01:22:00
Amy WinehouseBack to Black
James WebbPiglet
Nic CollinsWhenJohn Henry was a Lile Baby
Rainer LinzBanalies for the Perfect House
Peter Cusackin conversaon with Salome Vogeline
David Lee MyersNewtons Rings
David Chesworth and Sonja LeberProximies
Jennie Savagein conversaon
Jodi RoseGlobal Bridge
FM3Buddha Machine
Mahew MullaneThe Aesthec Ear (read by a bot)
Ultra-RedSounds of the Poor
Dj SpookyIn the Valley of the Shadows
Dallas SimpsonWater Power
Karlheinz EsslKalimba
Live Coding
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JENNIE SAVAGE seeks to transform peoples per-cepon of place.
DAVID LEE Myers is a sound and visual arst.
DAVID CHESWORTH & SONIA LEBERAustralianbased sound, video and installaon arsts.
JODI ROSE Sound arst, writer, broadcaster andcomposer.
DALLAS SIMPSON Arst involved with recordingand performing binaural soundworks.
FM3A Chinese musical duo who created the mini-ature loop player the Buddha Machine.
UltrA-red An art collecve who pursue a fragile
but dynamic exchange between art and policalorganizing.
DAN SENN Composer of experimental classicalmusic, electronic and acousc, a sculptor of ki-
nec instruments for exhibion and performance,
an experimental video arst for installaon andproscenium play, and a documentary lmmaker.
TONY HERRINGTON Editor in Chief of musicmagazine The Wire.
JOHN WYNNE Sound arst whose work is oenresearch based and made for galleries, museums
and public spaces.
SUSAN PHILIPSZ Originally a sculptor, she is bestknown for her sound installaons. She records
herself singing a cappella versions of songs which
are replayed over a public address system in a gal-lery or public space.
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Carsten Nicolai
Tony Herrington
Dan SennThe Odradek Complex
Hildegard WesterkampMothervoice
John WynneSomeone else has died
Cathy LaneOn the Machair
Susan PhilipszLowlands
David ToopSinister Resonance
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A History of Sound ArtDuraon: 85min. Stereo audio.
Commissioned by Newtoy Ltd in 2011
First exhibited as part of Wet Sounds,
underwater deep listening, in galleries
parcipang in its 2011 UK Tour.
For more informaon about sound
art you can visit our associated online
projectwww.soundartarchive.net
www.newtoy.orgwww wetsounds co uk
All music and image rights remain with the arsts
A History of Sound Artwas produced with
the support of The Arts Council Englandand The PRS Music Foundaon