sound art
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Headphone Music (2017)
A sound art piece about headphones and listening. (Headphones recommended.) Continue reading
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Representing Time: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
While I was in Ottawa last week, timing would have it that Christian Marclay’s epic video installation piece The Clock was showing at the National Gallery. I of course made a point of going to see it. The Clock is a 24-hour video collage composed of thousands of film clips (culled from the entire history Continue reading
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On Janet Cardiff’s Forty-Part Motet
When you go up to the second floor of MoMA PS 1 in Long Island City, Queens and walk down the hallway you can already hear the ethereal floating voices of Canadian artist Janet Cardiff’s sound art exhibit coming from a large room around the corner, beckoning you to take a closer listen. Walking into the room Continue reading
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On Max Neuhaus: The Sound Installation In Times Square
If you walk over the metal grating smack in the middle of the pedestrian island between 45th and 46th street where Broadway and 7th Avenue meet, slow down a little and listen closely to the space beneath your feet: you’ll notice a subtle shift in the soundscape around you. There is a mysterious low-pitched humming Continue reading
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On Ryoji Ikeda’s The Transfinite
“In a twist my mind came free and I was aware of the hard workings of the natural world beyond the periphery of ordinary attention, where passions lose their meaning and history is in another dimension, without people, and great events pass without record or judgment. I was a transient of no consequence in this familiar yet deeply alien world Continue reading
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From The Archives: Answering Machine Music
About eight years ago, I composed three electronic music pieces, This Would Be The Time, Have You Any Thoughts?, and All About Affect. The pieces are built around the sampled sounds of voice recordings left on my answering machine. (Do you remember answering machines?) There is nothing new in this: French radio engineer Pierre Schaeffer explored the idea Continue reading
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Glenn Gould’s The Idea Of North
In honor of all the cold weather lately, I take the opportunity to revisit one of the only odes of the North (and the cold) that I know of–I’m speaking of course about Glenn Gould’s radio documentary, The Idea of North. Gould is most famous as a pianist who renders the keyboard music of J.S. Continue reading
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Acoustic Territories
A recent addition to the growing literature on the field of sound studies is Brandon LaBelle’s Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Continuum 2010). LaBelle is a sound artist, writer, and editor of Errant Bodies Press (which brought us the book African Feedback). Acoustic Territories offers an acoustic politics of space, or what the Continue reading
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