Sound (Documents of Contemporary Art)


Sound (Documents of Contemporary Art)

Sound. The "sonic turn" in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight no longer dominates our percepction and understanding of reality. This sourcebook provides, through original artist´s statements and key theoretical writings, 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 roles of listening and acoustic space; and a comprehensive survey of sound works by artists from the avant-garde era to the present.