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sound art. Sounding objects and sounding rooms

Helga de la Motte-Haber (Eds.)

In this volume for the first time a complete presentation made an art form whose roots reach far into the 19th Century back. What began as a musical composition of the so-called arts, sat down in acquiring properties in the spatial and temporal dimensions of music in the visual arts continued. Sound art is the result of the efforts of artists to cross the genre boundaries.
worked in the first half of the century the idea further in an art synthesis of the dream of a Gesamtkunstwerk, in the second half of the 20th Century, however, were objects of sounding and sounding more rooms features a new art form. This book summarizes the historical conditions. It contains the blueprint for a new aesthetic theory that sound art to the paradigm of art and music development in the 20th Century makes. He also describes the various phenomena of sound sculptures, music in public spaces, sound installations and musical compositions space before. Additional artwork and artist biographies focus on a small area information. The result was a manual for both the curious and the musicological reader is meant to be working. But what made the sound of a medium that fascinates like no other, is a question that can only be answered for by a direct aesthetic experience.

352 pages with 60 figure Hardcover with dust jacket.
(Handbook of music in the 20th Century 12) ISBN 978-3-89007-432-0