... This chapter explores improvisation as a methodology for the creation of community-engaged, site-specific sound art projects. It presents a case study of the international new media audio art project Community Sound [e]Scapes to investigate how improvisation can be used as an artistic and social...

... This chapter considers work by artists who explore the nexus between urban popular photographic practices and visual constructions of prestige and personhood in the history of art. It analyzes Kehinde Wiley’s paintings and Black Light (2010) photographic series, which foreground issues of black...

... This short interstitial chapter examines how ocean waves have been represented in music and sound art, attending to how these forms have sought to ventriloquize, mimic, measure, or record waves speaking, singing, sounding, and noising. waves music sound art ...

... waves music sound art ...

... Maïté Chénière historiography Afrofuturism sound art ...

... improvisation spatiality sound art community-engaged Henri Lefebrve ...

... in soundwalking improvisation. soundwalk intimate listening partial knowledge conversation Luce Irigaray This chapter explores improvisation as a methodology for the creation of community-engaged, site-specific sound art projects. It presents a case study of the international new media audio art...

... language sound poetics verbal art semiotics ...

... art as a way to communicate multiple relationships to sound and its social dimensions, to the critical potential of mixed ability performance in creating flexible and responsive notions of community. disability difference Pauline Oliveros technology Adaptive Use Musical Instrument ...

... identification and belonging: a shift that foregrounds unknown relations, unforeseeable ways of engaging a space, beyond any one authority over lives’ movement in space and time. Maïté Chénière historiography Afrofuturism sound art ...

... features of everyday speech acts, the ways language pervades all forms of human endeavor, and the shared indexical and iconic associations of all forms of sounded expression. Lost in excisions of sound from language are considerations of voice and performance, speech play and verbal art, the affective...

... “Music as Action: Singing Happens before Sound” posits that sound is a subset of vibration and suggests that singing and listening constitute vital exchanges of energy. It interrogates the basic principles of singing and sound production by examining performance art pieces by Elodie Blanchard...

... and audiences without disabilities together; to experimental sound art as a way to communicate multiple relationships to sound and its social dimensions, to the critical potential of mixed ability performance in creating flexible and responsive notions of community. disability difference Pauline...

... recognizability as a human activity (performance), object (inscription), and sensibility (mode of listening) can work to elevate its conceptual status above scrutiny. This entry highlights how music has been naturalized in three principal ways: as science, as art, and as performance. In relation to sound studies...

... The term “transduction” describes a process through which sound changes as it traverses media, as it undergoes transformations in its energetic substrate (from electrical to mechanical, for example), and as it goes through transubstantiations that modulate both its matter and meaning. This entry...

..., and subsequently canvasses media studies, philosophy, postcolonial theory, and art writing and art practices through which radio and wireless sound have become the objects of analysis, philosophical speculation, and aesthetic experimentation. It concludes by contextualizing the insights of these diverse...

... This entry describes the diverse meanings of noise—both in sound studies and everyday social interpretations—that emerge from the divergences and overlaps between technological environments, art movements, and circulations of social difference. Noise is an essential product of communicational...

... Chapter 1 explores the sonic (repair) work of art in relation to the colonial modernist grid in Hay Mohammadi and the modernist mass housing that emerges from and within it. In reading Yto Barrada’s photography, Marion von Osten’s video mapping project This Was Tomorrow!, dancer Lahcen Zinoun’s...

... works skillfully to document the bittersweet history, or historia agridulce, of sugar, enslaved laborers, suffering, and, ultimately, death, by means of performance, visuality, and sound aesthetics. Chronicling the African diasporic visual languages through a Black woman’s body that performs...