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Sound Art
We Are the World, as performed by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Choir Samson Young 2017 Video and multi-channel sound installation Courtesy of the artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJkDR7YvX0 (4:20-4:56)
When I was interning at Venice Biennale earlier this year, I came across the works of Samson Young, a leading artist in Hong Kong. He was the representative of the Hong Kong Pavilion Read more →
Interesting Finds
https://garethleaney.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/turner-prize-2010-susan-philipsz/
In this piece the artist recorded herself singing 3 different versions of an Irish ballad (a song about a sailor who drowned himself and returned as a soul to bade farewell to his loved one) and playing them underneath bridges in Glasgow.
I like that it is not an exhibited piece and she used the environment to evoke emotions from Read more →
Sound Art Interesting Finds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWtatUi9gK0
Milind Talunkar Performing Jaltarang
Jal tarang is an Indian melodic percussion instrument. It consists of a set of ceramic or metal bowls tuned with water. The bowls are played by striking the edge with beaters, one in each hand.
what amazed me is that even the simplest stuff can play the melodic sound. Art is everywhere only if you are willing to explore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__YdjypIZ_o
Luke Jerram-Aeolus Read more →
Sound Arts: Interesting Finds
Christine Sun Kim was born deaf. She created the Game of Skill 2.0 to show the audience how much effort is needed to do a simple everyday job such as listening. Audience are to interact with the showcase by moving in the line provided by Christine. As they move along the lines, the handheld device will start to emit Read more →
Sound Art - Research
Whispering in the Leaves by Chris Watson is a sound installation that allows viewers to listen to mysterious sounds commonly found in Central and South American rainforests. Chris is a sound recordist who had spent years recording and compelling sounds in different rainforests around the world. This installation consists of two parts – Dawn and Dusk. In the morning, Read more →
4D: Interesting Finds
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller – The Murder of Crows (2011)
The Murder of Crows is a large installation that houses 98 audio seakers mounted around the space on stands, chairs and the wall. The structure of the piece aims to mirror the illogical but connected juxtapositions that we experience in the dream world. One soundscape moves into another Read more →
The Pre-Seminar Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnBr_tjDKaM
Dialog by Zul Mahmod
Zul Mahmod creates and codes a timely sequence of solenoids hitting on copper pipes of different length and thickness to create a sound. Being a site specific installation, Zul confronts the audience in a long underground passageway towards the Esplanade. The audience is then confront on their midway journey by the sound they hear from the artworks Read more →
Sound Art: Interesting Finds
Title: Raising Spirits and Restoring Souls
Artist: Zul Mahmod
Url: https://vimeo.com/143703590
Commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum, this installation is made out of amplifiers, piano/bass/guitar strings and copper pipes. It creates a familiar sound of banging pipers, but was arranged in such a way that it created something that sounds like music, instead of random Read more →
Sound Art - Reading Assignment
Seminar Questions
What is sound?Sound, as it is created, propagates amongst the hard Newtonian billiard balls of matter.
There are several layers of representations that be can classified as a sound.
Firstly, a recorded sound is one that was intentionally recorded. Secondly, are the additional sounds as a result of the environment and finally the sound of a recording apparatus itself.
How has Read more →Pre-Seminar Task - Examples Of Sound Art & Interesting Finds
Artist: Studio Lernert & Sander x Cos
URL: http://lernertandsander.com/the-sound-of-cos/
This sound installation and performance, titled “The Sound of COS” is a collaboration between Swedish fashion brand COS and conceptual artists-filmmakers Lernet & Sander.
The artists imitate the sounds clothes make. In their studio they crush salt, open umbrellas, slip on oven mitts and stomp about to create the soundtrack for a fashion video.