Sound ART
Considered one of the first experimental noise artists, Luigi Russolo (leader of the Italian Futurist Movement) designed and built a series of noise making devices known as 'Intonarumori' . Russolo was convinced that the evolution of the urban industrial soundscape called for new approaches to music , insisting that melody limited human potential to appreciate more dissonant and complex sounds. Over 100 years later, we at Voert digital invite you to listen with 'open ears' to what is possible ....
when the human spirit is not crushed and brainwashed by commercial interests.
Tomoko Sauvage & Alexandre Joly
Shimmering sounds
The recording features Tomoko Sauvage's sound installation, "A Rainbox in Curved Water", and Alexandre Joly's, "You Are Right Now To Make Sense of the World" deliberately presented in such a way that they can be listened to simultaneously. Tomoko Sauvage's installation consists of melting ice in amplified porcelain bowls. Alexandre Joly's work, a kind of dreamlike landscape, diffuses through piezo discs a soundtrack made up of more or less abstract layers, crackles, rustles.
MiE Fielding
Storm Arwen
A studio constructed sound art piece portraying the pummelling of the Northumberland coast in November 2021. The ferocious storm 'Arwen' is followed by a serene calm. From the book 'The Sound of a landscape - The Northumberland Coast in Art, Sound and Poetry. Best with headphones.
R. Murray Schafer
Once on a Windy Night
"The wind, like the sea, possesses an infinite number of vocal variations...The wind is an element that grasps the ears forcefully. The sensation is tactile as well as aural. How curious and almost supernatural it is to hear the wind in the distance without feeling it, as one does on a calm day in the Swiss Alps, where the faint, soft whistling of the wind over a glacier miles away can be heard across the intervening stillness of the valleys. " - R. Murray Schafer
Cathy Lane
On the Machair
This piece is part of a larger ongoing project
(hebrides-suite.co.uk) that attempts to both explore and communicate something about history and memory related to the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, through sound. It uses a mixture of monologues, field recordings and interviews collected during a number of trips to the Outer Hebrides as well as material from existing oral history archives.
This section is loosely woven around aspects of the crofting lifestyle past and present. It starts on the machair (a Gaelic word that describes an extensive low-lying fertile plain which is one of the rarest habitat types in Europe. Almost half of all Scottish machair occurs in the Outer Hebrides) and in particular the machair around Sollas a small crofting township in North Uist. .
Immiscible
3 Fifths
The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement over the counting of slaves in order to determine a state's total population.
Philosopher Christoph Cox traces the history of sound art from the invention of audio recording in the late 19th century to the genre-bending compositions of John Cage to the explosion of sound installation in the 1960s. Cox surveys a range of sonic practices, revealing how they resemble and resist approaches in the visual arts.
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