Archive for the ‘Sound Installation’ Category
To Music (in Pictures) }{ Gary James Joynes (Clinker)
To Music (in Pictures): a photo series founded upon a double-entendre. 1. An homage to music through the art of photography. 2. A series of photographs that participate in the art of musicking, following Christopher Small’s recasting of “music” from noun to verb: to music, an action set that encompasses the activities of musicians on […]
In: Concerts, Inevitable Plastic, Music, Photography, Sound Installation, To Music (In Pictures)
Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ Bell Tower of False Creek
“Bell Tower of False Creek” is a multimedia research/creation project investigating the rich history and complex sociocultural dynamics in play in the area surrounding Burrard Bridge, which spans False Creek in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It began while on assignment making new recordings for the archive of the World Soundscape Project as part of my postdoctoral […]
In: Acoustic Cartography, Acoustic Ecology, Architecture, Sound Installation, Soundwalking, Vancouver Soundscape
4’33” in the Soundscape of a Haunted Guggenheim
The first time I went into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City a couple of years ago I was immediately confronted with a cacophony that suggested a blatant case of the sight-centered approach to architecture from which so many modernist buildings suffer: looks fantastic, and sounds awful. Or as R. Murray Schafer […]
In: Architecture, Film Sound, Sound Installation · Tagged with: Acoustic Design, Acoustics, Architecture, Emily Thopmson, Film Soundtracks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim, R. Murray Schafer, Schizophonia, Soundscape of Modernity