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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.

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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.

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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

a history of sound art booklet

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