The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

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Contents
Sound Art. The First 100 Years of an Aggressively Expanding Art Form
	A Brief History of Sound Art
	Is This Sound Art?
	Six Battlegrounds of Sound Art
Part 1: After the Apocalypse. The Desert of the Real as Sound Art
	Chapter 1: The Sonic Aftermath. The Anthropocene and Interdisciplinarity after the Apocalypse
		Introduction
		The Sonic Aftermath
		Historical Context: Commercialized Natural Sounds and Deep Ecology
		The Post-Natural Condition: From Deep to Dark Ecology
	Chapter 2: Composing Sociality. Toward an Aesthetics of Transition Design
		“Composition”
		Mid-Century Experimentalism: The New “Good Music” and the Act of Listening
		The Anti-Aesthetic of Relinquishing Control and Authorship in Composing Sociality
		Co-Creation, Eco-Literate (Systems-Aware) Design, and AROI
		The Auditory Environment, Politics, and Social Tonality
		Gift Economy, Urban Ritual, and Invented Myths
		Communal Sound Banks
		Social Composition with Permaculture and Urban Gardens
	Chapter 3: Dealing with Disaster. Notes toward a Decolonizing, Aesthetico-Relational Sound Art
		In a Manner of Introduction: Situating Sonic Thinking
		The Aesthetico-Relational Qualities of Sound Art
		The Struggle for Education in São Paulo: Escolas de Luta
		Rehearsing Futures: Sonic Insolence and Auditory Fabulation
		“A Specific State of Time”: Tempos Verbais
		Schismatic Consonance
		In a Manner of Conclusion
	Chapter 4: Vocalizing Dystopian and Utopian Impulses. The End of Eating Everything
		Introduction
		The End of Eating Everything
		The Scream of the Hybrid Medusa
		Listening to the Monstrous
		Transgressions
		“I Speak Orange”
		Giving Voice to the Shadows
		Dear Daughter/Anatomy of the Chthulucene
		Zones of Entanglement between Machines and Organic Selves
		Dubbing, Playback, and Loose Synchronization
		Vocal Kinship
		Conclusion
Part 2: Journeys across the Grid. Postcolonial Transformations as Sound Art
	Chapter 5: “Diam!” (Be Quiet!). Noisy Sound Art from the Global South
		Global Art—Contemporary Art
		Indonesian Art History as Global Art
		Experimental Music, Performance, and Noise in the Global South
		Entanglements Transferred
		Challenges from the Global South
		Tradition without the Cultural Outfit
		Street Noise Activism
		Controlling the Noise
		Multifocal Backdrops
		Unintentional Transformation?
	Chapter 6: Curating Potential. Migration and Sonic Artistic Practices in Berlin
		Introduction
		Postcolonial Curating, and Berlin as a Global Music City of Artistic Migration
		Interview with Elke Moltrecht2
		The Origins of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
		Interview with Julia Gerlach6
	Chapter 7: Four Artistic Journeys
	Chapter 7.i: Pockets of Communities
	Chapter 7.ii: Cairo Baby-Doll. Some Remarks on a Cairo Sound Art Scene
		The City Plays its Part
		Dialectical Conceptualism
		About-Ness and its Other
		A Freer Play of Relations
	Chapter 7.iii: When I Close My Eyes Everything Is So Damn Pretty (Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want)
		Interlude: A Self-Interview
	Chapter 7.iv: Sound in Covert Places. Indonesian Sound Art Development through Bandung Perspectives
		Introduction
		The History of the Indonesian Expanded Medium of Art
		Intermedia Practices and the Emergence of Sound Art
		Sound Art in Bandung
		The Future of Indonesian Sound Art?
	Chapter 8: Sound Art in East and Southeast Asia. Historical and Political Considerations
		Introduction
		How We Got to Know What We Know
		Japan in the 1950s–1960s and the Development of an Art Practice
		The 1960s and 1970s and the Cold War
		The Agitated 1980s and 1990s
		A Fluid, Connected, and Inclusive New Millennium
Part 3: Come Closer . . . Intimate Encounters as Sound Art
	Chapter 9: Kiss, Lick, Suck. Micro-Orality of Intimate Intensities
		Moist
		Desire
		Rapture
		Attachment
		Dream
		Elemental
	Chapter 10: Gender, Intimacy, and Voices in Sound Art. Encouragements, Self-Portraits, and Shadow Walks
		Introduction
		Notions of Intimacy
		The Sounds of Sex: Raimondo, Shetty, Lockwood
		Breath: Kaddal, Biswas, Bailey, Westerkamp
		Voice: Hojo, Corringham, Karikis
	Chapter 11: Sonic Intimacies. The Sensory Status of Intimate Encounters in 3-D Sound Art
		Sensory Fusion
		Sensory Depth and Breadth
		Conclusion
	Chapter 12: Intruders Touching You. Intimate Encounters in Audio
		Delimiting: For You by Julie Tolentino
		Disorienting: The Walks of Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller
		Sexualizing: The Artifacts of Audioporn
		Affecting: The Audio Smut of Kaitlin Prest, Mitra Kaboli, Sharon Mashihi, Phoebe Wang, and Jen Ng
		Sonic Extimacy: Material Encounters with Sonic Personae
Part 4: De-Institutionalize! Institutional Critique as Sound Art
	Chapter 13: Inquiring into the Hack. New Sonic and Institutional Practices by Pauline Oliveros, Pussy Riot, and Goodiepal
		Inquiring into the Hack
		When Is it a Hack?
		The Sonic Hacker in a Vectoralist Society
		The “Space of Appearance”—Institutional Emergence
		Goodiepal and the Institutional Hack
		Conclusion
	Chapter 14: Outside and Around Institutions. Two Artistic Positions
	Chapter 14.i: Working in the Sounding Field
	Chapter 14.ii: Conversations and Utopias
	Chapter 15: Audiogrammi of a Collective Intelligence. The Composer-Researchers of S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks
		Introduction
		S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks
		The Alternative Electroacoustic Music Scene of the 1960s
		Cooperation, Total Performance, Anonymity, and Co-Signing
		The Micro- and Macro-Dimensions of Sound: Notation and Scores
		Sound and Visual: A Perfect Marriage
		International Networks
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgments
	Chapter 16: Sounding in Paths, Hearing through Cracks. Sonic Arts Practices and Urban Institutions
		Introduction
		Walls for Ears
		Sounding in Paths—Guided Listening in Public Space
		Hearing through Cracks
Part 5: The Sonic Imagination. Sonic Thinking as Sound Art
	Chapter 17: The Sonic Fiction of Sound Art. A Background to the Theory-Fiction of Sound
		When All Is Quiet: The Kaiser Chiefs Present Sound Art
		Afrofuturist Science Sonic Theory-Fiction
		Sonic Fictions as Possible Worlds: Sonic Fiction and Sound Art
	Chapter 18: Women Sonic Thinkers. The Histories of Seeing, Touching, and Embodying Sound
		Prologue: The Voice of the Mother Tongue
		Sonic Thinking the Father Tongue Way
		Seeing Sound
		Touching Sound
		Embodying All Sound
		Conclusion
		Epilogue: Toward New Mountains
	Chapter 19: “Specific Dissonances.” A Geopolitics of Frequency
		A Private Ear
		New Resonance
		Black Noise
		Contiguous Architectures
		Afterthought
	Chapter 20: A Universe in a Grain of Sound. The Production of Time and Sonic Fiction in Machinic Sound Art
		Accidents
		Interference in the Static
		Creative Clamor
		The Ungrounded Ground
		Repairing the Clock
		Time, Briefly
		Revolutions of Time
		Chronos and Aeon
		Chronic Capitalism
		Process and Reality
		Sonic Fiction
Part 6: Making Sound. Building Media Instruments as Sound Art
	Chapter 21: The Instrument as Theater. Instrumental Reworkings in Contemporary Sound Art
		What Is a Sonic Instrument?
		The Instrument as Assemblage
		Key Aspects of Instrumentality
		Instrumental Critique in Contemporary Sound Art: Dramatization of Instrumental Practice
		Deconstruction as Instrumental Liberation: Politicizing the Sacred
		A Theater of Uncanny Instrumentality
		Instrumental Negotiations of Culture
		Discussion and Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 22: From Turntable to Neural Net. Sound Art, Technoscience, Craft, and the Instrument
		Figuring Out Hybrid Frameworks
		Appropriation
		Instructions and Processes
		Bending and Tinkering
		Learning
		Conclusion
	Chapter 23: The Instrument as Medium. Phonographic Work
		Media Perspectives: From Sound to Tone Art to Sound Art
		Media Configurations as Sound Instruments
		Media Dispositives
		Digital Media
		Popular Culture: The Omnipresence of Sound Art
	Chapter 24: How to Build an Instrument? Three Artistic Positions–Articles and Interviews
	Chapter 24.i: Membrane. Materialities and Intensities of Sound
	Chapter 24.ii: Pickups and Strings. On Experimental Preparation and Magnetic Amplification
		The Guqin and the Lyre
		Near-Death Strings
		The Cure and Sonic Youth
		Third Bridges Are Sex
		The Moodswinger
		The Nice Noise of String Preparations
	Chapter 24.iii: Mechanics. From Physicality over Symbolism through Malfunction and Back Again
		The Artist
		Physicality and Malfunction
		A Post-Digital Comment?
		The Machine as Symbolizing Its Action
		The Predetermined Machine
		The Artistic Solution
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7.ii
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14.i
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Chapter 20
	Chapter 22
	Chapter 23
References
Contributors
Index