There Is No Soundtrack: Rethinking Art, Media, and the Audio-visual Contract

Ma, Ming-yuen S./ Jones, Amelia (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1526163845 / ISBN 13: 9781526163844

Published by Manchester Univ Pr, 2022

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280 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.59 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: There Is No Soundtrack: Rethinking Art, Media, and the Audio-visual Contract
• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526163845
• ISBN 13: 9781526163844
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.4 kilograms

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Synopsis

There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It contextualises these works and artists through key ideas in sound studies: voice, noise, listening, the soundscape and more. The book argues that experimental media art produces radical and new audio-visual relationships challenging the visually dominated discourses in art, media and the human sciences. In addition to directly addressing what Jonathan Sterne calls ‘visual hegemony’, it also explores the lack of diversity within sound studies by focusing on practitioners from transnational and diverse backgrounds. As such, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary scholarship, building new, more complex and reverberating frameworks to collectively sonify the study of culture.

About the Author

Ming-Yuen S. Ma is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges