Sound art

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Bibliography

Journals and Magazines

The Wire, London. [1]
China: the Sonic Avant-Garde, 2 issues, 2005-2006. (in Chinese)

Miguel Molina Alarcón, Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde, 2008. View online.

Catalogues

Germano Celant, The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977, 121 pp. (in English/French) [2] [3]
René Block, Lorenz Dombois, Nele Herltling, Barbara Volkmann (eds.), Für Augen und Ohren. Von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment. Objekte. Installationen. Performances, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1980, 312 pp. (in German). Catalogue for a large-scale exhibition curated by Nele Hertling and René Block. [4] [5]
Vito Acconci, William Hellermann, Don Goddard, Sound/Art, New York: The Foundation, 1984, 29 pp. With an essay by Don Goddard. Exhibition curated by William Hellermann and held simultaneously at SculptureCenter’s former location on East 69th Street in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (now Brooklyn Arts Council). Participating artists included Vito Acconci, Connie Beckley, Bill and Mary Buchen, Nicolas Collins, Sari Dienes and Pauline Oliveros, Richard Dunlap, Terry Fox, William Hellermann, Jim Hobart, Richard Lerman, Les Levine, Joe Lewis, Tom Marioni, James Pomeroy, Alan Scarritt, Carolee Schneemann, Bonnie Sherk, Keith Sonnier, Norman Tuck, Hannah Wilke, and Yom Gagatzi. [6]
Ursula Block, Michael Glasmeier (eds.), Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks, DAAD Galerie, 1989, 279 pp. A discography of recordings by visual artists and experimental audioworks. [7] [8]
Dan Lander, Micah Lexier (eds.), Sound by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole and Walter Phillips Gallery, 1990; Blackwood Gallery and Charivari Press, 2013, 372 pp. Introduction, Discography, Essay by Bill Viola, Book excerpts (video). Essays on sound art by writers and artists including John Cage, Christina Kubisch, Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Ihor Holubizky, Douglas Kahn, Christian Marclay and others. [9] [10]
Christine van Assche (ed.), Sonic Process. A new geography of sounds, Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2002.
Bernd Schulz (ed.), Resonanzen. Aspekte der Klangkunst, Saarbrücken: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2003. With CD. (in German)
- Helga de la Motte-Haber, "Esthetic Perception in New Artistic Contexts".
Miguel Molina Alarcón, Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942), London: ReR Megacorp, 2008, 72 pp. With 2-CD.
Andrey Smirnov, Liubov Pchelkina, Pokolenie Z [ПОКОЛЕНИЕ Z], St. Petersburg: PRO ARTE Foundation, 2010, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (Russian).
- Pokolenie Z [ПОКОЛЕНИЕ Z], Moscow: Polytechnic Museum, 2011, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (in Russian)
- Generation Z: Russian Pioneers of Sound Art and Musical Technology in 1910-1930, Budapest: OSA Archivum, 2011, 20 pp. Booklet-newspaper of the Generation Z exhibition. (in English/Hungarian)
Sounds. Radio - Art - New Music, Berlin: n.b.k., 2010, 32 pp.
David Crowley, Daniel Muzyczuk, Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984, Łódź: Muzeum Sztuki, 2012, 222 pp. (in English/Polish)

John Grayson (ed.), Sound Sculpture, 1975. Download.

Anthologies

John Grayson (ed.), Sound Sculpture: A Collection of Essays by Artists Surveying the Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions of Sound Sculpture, Vancouver: Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada, 1975, 196 pp.
Caleb Kelly (ed.), Sound, London: Whitechapel Gallery, with MIT Press, 2011, 239 pp.

Book series

Sound Studies book series, Bloomsbury.

Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises, 1916-. Download (IT, EN, ES, DE, FR, RU).

Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art, 1985/1996. Download.

David Toop, Ocean of Sound, 1995. Download.

Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, 1999. Download.

Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound & Radio, 2000. Download.

Monographs, Edited books

Monographs on individual artists are included in their respective pages.

Luigi Russolo, L’Arte dei rumori, Milan: Edizione Futuriste di Poesia, 1916, 92 pp. (in Italian). The manifesto was first published on 11 March 1913.
- The Art of Noises, trans. Robert Filliou, Something Else Press, 1967. Manifesto only.
- The Art of Noises, trans. Barclay Brown, New York: Pendragon, 1987, 87 pp.
- "El arte de los ruidos. Manifiesto Futurista", Sin Titulo 3 (1996), UCLM, pp 8-15. (in Spanish). Manifesto only.
- Die Geräuschkunst, trans. Justin Winkler and Albert Mayr, Basel: Akroama, 1999. (in German)
- L’Art des bruits. Manifeste futuriste, 2003; 4th ed., 2013. (in French). Manifesto only.
- Iskusstvo shumov [Искусство шумов]. (in Russian). The manifesto only.
Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1985; 2nd ed., ed. Simon Emmerson, Routledge, 1996, 357 pp.
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Musik und Bildende Kunst. Von der Tonmalerei zur Klangskulptur, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1990.
David Toop, Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds, Serpent’s Tail, 1995, 306 pp; 2001.
Adalaide Kirby Morris (ed.), Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, University of North Carolina Press, 1997, 349 pp.
Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, 1999, 455 pp. Sparked by Dan Lander's idea of "musicalization of sound" presented in the volume Sound by Artists he co-edited [11].
Helga de la Motte-Haber (ed.), Klangkunst: Tönende Objekte und klingende Räume, Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1999, 352 pp. (in German). Review, Review.
Brandon LaBelle, Steve Roden (eds.), Site of Sound: Of architecture and the ear, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies/Smart Art, 1999.
Karin von Maur, Vom Klang der Bilder, Munich, 1999. (in German)
Allen S. Weiss (ed.), Experimental Sound & Radio, MIT Press, 2000, 188 pp.
Jozef Cseres, Hudobné simulakrá, Bratislava: Hudobné centrum, 2001. (in Slovak)
Curtis Roads, Microsound, MIT Press, 2002, 423 pp.
Bernd Schulz (ed.), Resonanzen/Resonances. Aspekte der Klangkunst/Aspects of Sound Art, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2002. (in German)
Ken Ehrlich, Brandon LaBelle, Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, Los Angeles: Errant Bodies, 2003.
Maja Kuzmanovic, nadine, Annemie Maes, Yves Bernard (eds.), .x-med-a., experimental media arts, Brussels, 2006, 156 pp.
Helga de la Motte-Haber, Matthias Osterwold, Georg Weckwerth (eds.), Sonambiente Berlin 2006: Klang Kunst Sound Art, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2006.
- Christoph Cox, "From Music to Sound: Being as Time in the Sonic Arts", pp 214-223.
Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sabine Breitsameter, Winfried Pauleit (eds.), Sound Art – Zwischen Avantgarde und Popkultur, Cologne: Salon, 2006. (in German)
Brandon LaBelle, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, Continuum, 2006, 316 pp. [12]
Alan Licht, Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories, New York: Rizzoli, 2007, 304 pp. Foreword by Jim O’Rourke. [13]
Leigh Landy, Understanding the Art of Sound Organization, MIT Press, 2007, 303 pp.
Tony Gibbs, The Fundamentals of Sonic Art & Sound Design, AVA, 2007, 175 pp.
Julia Kursell (ed.), Sounds of Science – Schall im Labor (1800–1930), Berlin: Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2008, 134 pp. (in English and German)
Ulrich Tadday (ed.), Klangkunst, Munich, 2008. (in German)
Seth Kim-Cohen, In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art, New York and London: Continuum, 2009, 296 pp.
Craig Dworkin, Unheard Music, information as material, 2010, 30 pp.
Thomas Bey William Bailey, Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century, Creation Books, 2009; 2nd ed., Belsona Books, 2012, 417 pp.
Salomé Voegelin, Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, 2010, 256 pp.
Peter Kiefer (ed.), Klangräume der Kunst, Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2010. With Video-DVD. (in German)
Tara Rodgers, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound, Duke University Press, 2010, 322 pp. [14]
Brandon LaBelle, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life, 2010.
Douglas Kahn, The Aelectrosonic, eds. Arie Altena and Sonic Acts, Sonic Acts Press, 2011, 64 pp.
Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer (eds.), Sound Exchange: Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010, Saarbrücken: PFAU, 2012. (in English/German)
Andrey Smirnov, Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia, London: Koenig Books & Sound and Music, 2013, 281 pp.
Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, University of California Press, 2013, 344 pp. [15]
Seth Kim-Cohen, Against Ambience, Bloomsbury, 2013. [16]
Salomé Voegelin, Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, Bloomsbury, 2014 (forthcoming).

Journal issues

The Iowa Review Web 8(1): Special issue on Sound Art, ed. Ben Basan, February/March 2006.
Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology, 14(1): Sound Art, ed. Jøran Rudi, Cambridge University Press, 2009, 115 pp.
Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 23: Sound Art, ed. Nicolas Collins, 2013, 106 pp. [17]
Seismograf/DMT: Urbanitet, lyd og kunst, eds. af Kristine Samson and Sanne Krogh Groth, November 2012. (in Danish)
Seismograf/DMT: Japansk lydkunst, September 2011. (in Danish)

Pamphlets, Booklets, Brochures

Julian Cowley, Annotations for Sound Art, 2003, 11 pp.
Yannick Dauby, Paysages Sonores Partagés, 2004. (in French)

Articles (selection)

Max Neuhaus, "Sound Art?", in Volume: Bed of Sound, New York: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 2000.
Douglas Kahn, "The Arts of Sound Art and Music", The Iowa Review Web 8(1): Special issue on Sound Art, ed. Ben Basan, February/March 2006.
Golo Föllmer, "Audio Art", trans. Rebecca van Dyck, MediaArtNet, 2004.

Theses

Tristan Louth-Robins, Still and Moving Lines. Listening and Signification in Sound Art, University of Adelaide, 2010, 65 pp.
Yolande Harris, Scorescapes: On Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness, Leiden University, 2011, 146 pp.

Bibliographies

Articles and papers on sound art, compiled by Jérôme Joy and Thom Holmes.
Selected articles about sound art at SoundArtArchive.net
http://www.soundculture.org/texts.html

Resources

Sound at UbuWeb
Sound Art Archive.net
Ràdio Web MACBA
ICA SoundWorks
SONM Archive, Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art
Soundbag, an internet project by Rolf Langebartel
Her Noise Archive, a resource of collected materials investigating music and sound histories in relation to gender, by Anne Hilde Neset and Lina Džuverović.
Ear Room, an online interview publication focusing on the complex use of sound in artistic practice, by Mark Peter Wright.
Tacet, annual bilingual (French and English) experimental music review (*2012). [18]
Ekho: Women in Sonic Art
Sound art in Latin America
Sound art exhibitions timeline, compiled by Jérôme Joy and Thom Holmes. Former version.
J Milo Taylor, A History of Sound Art, 2011.

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