Collins Ch. 11: Sound Art

Visual art by Marcel Duchamp

  • Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912)


Marcel Duchamp (on the left, playing chess) in René Clair, Entr’acte (1924—remember it from chapter 10’s extra notes? At the time, we focused on composers Erik Satie in the same film.)

 

Marcel Duchamp, Erratum musical (1913)

 

Visual art by Yves Klein

  • Anthropométrie de l'epoque bleue (ANT 82; 1960)

 

Yves Klein, Symphonie Monotone (1949; performed in 1960)

https://vimeo.com/13223346

 

 

John Cage on the game show, I’ve Got a Secret (start at 1:34)

 

Bill Fontana on being influenced by Cage and Duchamp

 

Bill Fontana, Objective Sound (2007)

 

Max Neuhaus performance newsreel

 

Different artists’ feelings on the use of the term “sound art”

 


 

Max Neuhaus on Times Square (1977): https://hyperallergic.com/298871/a-hidden-times-square-sound-installation-returns-to-full-hum/

Neuhaus’s Conscription Drawings: https://mcachicago.org/About/Who-We-Are/Artists/Max-Neuhaus

 

Neuhaus on his Circumscription Drawings
https://vimeo.com/132563485#t=54m21s

Chicago Tribune article describing Neuhaus’s installation while announcing the opening of the museum — http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-07-31/news/8502200800_1_contemporary-collection-museum-of-contemporary-art-stairwell

 

Neuhaus on the commitment between artist and gallery (57:41)
https://vimeo.com/132563485#t=57m41s

 

Neuhaus on his patents for sirens (49:40)
https://vimeo.com/132563485#t=49m40s

 

Neuhaus and his (precursors to) soundwalks: description and the score for LISTEN (1966)

 

 


 

Christina Kubisch on the evolution of her work from headphones inside galleries to Electrical Walks (from 0:36)

https://vimeo.com/54846163

 

Another soundwalk (review from ch. 9)

 

Janet Cardiff (with George Bures Miller), Alter Bahnhof (2012) one visitor’s experience of Cardiff’s soundwalk

 

Bill Viola, known as a video artist, on his mindfulness to the native resonant sound of a venue

 

Bill Viola, sketch from Hallway Nodes (1972)

 

Ryoji Ikeda, “+..” from +/- (1997)