The Fundamentals of Sonic Arts & Sound Design considers new approaches to sound recording, performance, installation works and exhibitions and visits the worlds of the sonic artist and the sound designer.
Artists engage with sonic art with techniques ranging from electroacoustic music, to radio, instrument hacking, kinetic sound sculptures and found footage collages.
Urban and domestic incidents "a cup of tea", Brown Sierra
exhibit using 180 speakers in Gallery/flat Wellington buildings 9th Sept-19 Sept 1999
history of sonic arts: our ancestors who gathered in the caves not just admire paintings. Apparently the paintings were found in locations where the acoustics have unusual qualities which have led some scientists to claim that the places might have been venues for early forms of multimedia events.
The first notated piece of music was found in Syria and dates back to 1400 BCE
pioneers of sound design: Edgard Varese, Steve Reich and John Cage.
Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognised as an influence by several major composers of the late 20th century. His use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound".
Edgard Varese - Ionisation
Steve Reich - Different Trains (Part I)
Luigi Russolo was perhaps the first noise artist
Italian futurist Luigi Russolo and in particular his 1913 treatise The Art of Noises that puts forward an idea revolutionary for the time: there should be no barriers between sounds that have musical or instrumental origins and those who come from the street, the industry or even warfare. He tried to prove his point with his Intonarumori (or Noise Intoners) machines. Each of them produced a particular type of noise, there was the Ululator (the howler), the Crepitatori (the crackers), and the Stropicciatore (the rubber). On April 24, 1914, he conducted the first 'Gran Concerto Futuristica' with musicians playing those noise machines. The audience responded by throwing vegetables, booing, hooting and whistling.
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