See This Sound: Versprechen von Bild und Ton / Promises in Sound and Vision (German/English)

Diedrich Diedrichsen, Liz Kotz, Cosima Rainer, Stella Rollig, Dieter Daniels, Manuela Ammer

ISBN 10: 3865606830 / ISBN 13: 9783865606839

Published by Walther König, Köln, 2009

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W : 23 x 29,5 cm, 314 Seiten/pages, zahlreiche Abbildungen / numerous illustrations - As the status of sound in art and music evolves and redefines itself, so too does sound art find new ways of describing its history. See This Sound compiles a huge number of artists, filmmakers, composers and performers, reaching back into the early twentieth century and into the present to survey overlaps between not only sound and art, sound and film, and the metaphor of cinema as rhythm or symphony. Proceeding chronologically, the book takes the early cinematic "eye music" of Hans Richter as a starting point, noting parallel works by Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger; moving into the postwar period, the art/cinema/ music experiments of Peter Kubelka, Valie Export and Michael Snow are discussed, establishing precedents to similar work by Rodney Graham, Carsten Nicolai, Jeremy Deller and many others. In its scope and intelligence, See This Sound is a unique survey of this realm.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1736859882007

Bibliographic Details

• Title: See This Sound: Versprechen von Bild und Ton / Promises in Sound and Vision (German/English)
• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865606830
• ISBN 13: 9783865606839
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Contemporary art
  • Performance
  • Musik

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Synopsis

As the status of sound in art and music evolves and redefines itself, so too does sound art find new ways of describing its history. See This Sound compiles a huge number of artists, filmmakers, composers and performers, reaching back into the early twentieth century and into the present to survey overlaps between not only sound and art, sound and film, and the metaphor of cinema as rhythm or symphony. Proceeding chronologically, the book takes the early cinematic "eye music" of Hans Richter as a starting point, noting parallel works by Walter Ruttmann and Oskar Fischinger; moving into the postwar period, the art/cinema/ music experiments of Peter Kubelka, Valie Export and Michael Snow are discussed, establishing precedents to similar work by Rodney Graham, Carsten Nicolai, Jeremy Deller and many others. In its scope and intelligence, See This Sound is a unique survey of this realm.