Max Eastley – Hydrophone String Installation + Half Speed Metal Installation + Stone Circle 2 Max Eastley is an internationally recognised artist who combines kinetic sculpture and sound into a unique art form. His sculptures exist on the border between the natural environment and human intervention and use the driving forces of electricity, wind, water and ice. He has exhibited both …
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Jean Tinguely – Tinguely parla di Tinguely
Sono un artista del movimento. Ho cominciato facendo pittura, ma mi sono arenato, ero in un vicolo cieco. La storia dell’arte e la scuola di belle arti mi avevano bloccato, partivo handicappato in pittura, sono rimasto intrappolato dai quadri, quanto potevo fare con i quadri era di aspettare che fossero esauriti e non riuscivo mai a giungere alla fine. Allora …
Read More »Bill Fontana – Harmonic Bridge
I have worked for the past 45 years creating installations that use sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural settings. These have been installed in public spaces and museums around the world including San Francisco, New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Venice, Sydney and Tokyo. My sound sculptures use the human and/or …
Read More »Larry Miller, Flux Concert, 1979
Flux Concert Larry Miller 1979, 81:45 min, b&w, sound On March 24, 1979, The Kitchen hosted a concert of reconstructed historical Fluxus performances. Over forty short pieces by thirty artists and composers were performed (with occasional assistance from the audience) and are included in this documentation. Among the pieces featured were compositions by renown Fluxus artists Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, …
Read More »Luigi Agostini. Controllo dei suoni nello spazio.
Mi chiamo Luigi Agostini e dal lontano 1997 (ahimè, il tempo vola) mi occupo di audio multi-canale, tridimensionale e non. Ringrazio vivamente i creatori di Sound Art Zone per lo spazio che mi concedono e, senza perdere altro tempo, (non vorrei annoiare nessuno) comincio subito a trattare l’argomento che mi è stato suggerito, cioé la spazializzazione del suono. Comincio scongiurando …
Read More »Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mikrophonie I (1966)
Mikrophonie I (Microphony I) for 6 players (2 groups of 3) with tam-tam (gong), 2 microphones, 2 filters with potentiometers (1964) Development In 1964, Stockhausen acquired a 5-foot Paiste tam-tam (gong) which was first used in performances of MOMENTE, where it was struck, caressed, scratched and scraped in various ways with various drumsticks, mallets and screwdrivers. After installing it in …
Read More »Zygmunt Krauze
composer and pianist, born 19 September 1938 in Warsaw. He studied piano with Maria Wiłkomirska (graduated in 1962) and composition with Kazimierz Sikorski (degree in 1964) at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw. The French government granted him a scholarship for composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris (1966-67). Since 1963 he has given many concerts in Europe …
Read More »David Letellier – Caten
Caten . 2012 Kinetic sound installation by David Letellier davidletellier.net Created for the Saint Sauveur chapel in Caen, Caten is a levitating sculpture, determined by gravity and guiding the evolution of a sound composition. 300 fine wires suspended from two ropes, connected themselves at each end to a slowly rotating arm, form an evanescent surface which interacts with the architecture. …
Read More »Laurie Anderson – Home Of The Brave (1986)
Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by and featuring the music of Laurie Anderson. The film’s full on-screen title is Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson. The performances were filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, NJ, during the summer of 1985. Good Evening (instrumental) Zero and One (spoken word) Excellent …
Read More »Miguel Álvarez-Fernández – Bacchus
“Bacchus”, a new installation by DissoNoiSex (Asia Piascik, Stefan Kersten and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández), presented at the Vinfonies Festival (Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona), 10-13 November 2011. “Bacchus” is based on the electrical conductivity of wine: even the slightest trace of fluid on the smooth, white surface closes an oscillatory feedback loop between three metal electrodes and produces a manifold of sounds, …
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