Ecology- in terms of soundscape- aims to raise the level of consciousness about acoustic environments and help to realise the interactive relationships between emotion and understanding in pleasure, as stated in Helmi Jarviluoma-Makeia's article 'Re-sounding pleasure in soundscape studies.'
The reading for this week was an introduction into the lecture of sound art where it was discussed what sound art was, as well as delving into particular artist's works and intentions when working with sound. The exploration was broken into two sections, which were each divided into two sub-catagories:
What is sound art?
#1) Sound/ space- how sound activates space and the architecture's impact on sound ("composing space"). For example, Leitner's 'Serpentinata' has the intention of using sound to isolate the audience when listening and entering the space to bring self-awareness upon them.
#2) Strange sounds/ strange media- "sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dream of us." (Morton Feldman) In this particular instance, we looked at 'avant-garde music.' This is where artists are experimental, using instruments and noises that weren't considered as musical. These artists, like John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer were revolutionary in the music world, thanks to the development of technologies, like the microphone and record, that allowed for sounds to be captured in a way that broke from the traditional methods of live performance.
Sound as media art:
#1) "The break-down of the tool"
#2) Electronic popular music- "as listening to machines making mistakes." This section was particularly enlightening, as it deemed relevant to the popular music culture of present day. Quite often, electronic music is taken for granted, and sometimes can be considered musically lazy, however it is in fact an evolution of the avant-garde revolution of the early 20th century. Artist and music journalist, Kodwo Eshun spoke of the music being like "electricity" itself and this manipulation of sound generates a rhythm that is calling up a response in the listener's body, and this is what music essentially is: it is a medium that is to affect a listener mentally, emotionally and physically.
Soundscapes and sound art is constantly being explored and developed; new ideas and sounds are created, each initiating an experience for the listener/ audience.
The reading for this week was an introduction into the lecture of sound art where it was discussed what sound art was, as well as delving into particular artist's works and intentions when working with sound. The exploration was broken into two sections, which were each divided into two sub-catagories:
What is sound art?
#1) Sound/ space- how sound activates space and the architecture's impact on sound ("composing space"). For example, Leitner's 'Serpentinata' has the intention of using sound to isolate the audience when listening and entering the space to bring self-awareness upon them.
#2) Strange sounds/ strange media- "sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dream of us." (Morton Feldman) In this particular instance, we looked at 'avant-garde music.' This is where artists are experimental, using instruments and noises that weren't considered as musical. These artists, like John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer were revolutionary in the music world, thanks to the development of technologies, like the microphone and record, that allowed for sounds to be captured in a way that broke from the traditional methods of live performance.
Sound as media art:
#1) "The break-down of the tool"
#2) Electronic popular music- "as listening to machines making mistakes." This section was particularly enlightening, as it deemed relevant to the popular music culture of present day. Quite often, electronic music is taken for granted, and sometimes can be considered musically lazy, however it is in fact an evolution of the avant-garde revolution of the early 20th century. Artist and music journalist, Kodwo Eshun spoke of the music being like "electricity" itself and this manipulation of sound generates a rhythm that is calling up a response in the listener's body, and this is what music essentially is: it is a medium that is to affect a listener mentally, emotionally and physically.
Soundscapes and sound art is constantly being explored and developed; new ideas and sounds are created, each initiating an experience for the listener/ audience.
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