The Dubai - ground Gallery of Light , part of DUCTAC , the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre , is hosting a effectual artistic creation exhibit this month , January 2014 . The conservator , Simon Coates , invited me to enter .
creative person boast include the British player Scanner and the early musique concrète pattern Dr. Halim El - Dabh , as well as Porya Hatami ( Sanandaj , Iran ) , the British - Iranian Soosan Lolavar , Leopoldo Amigo Perez ( among his works is a recreation of Arseny Avraamov ’s 1922 “ Symphony of Factory Sirens ” ) , and Christina Kubisch ( Germany ) . The display will also include an installation of Alvin Lucier ’s “ I Am Sitting in a Room , ” with Lucier ’s approval .
For my part , Coates requested that I hand write a list of 10 commend industrial plant of heavy fine art , the intended reviewer being someone somewhat new to the subject area . His concept was to then impress the piece large shell and hang it in the Gallery of Light , along with the other exhibit body of work . I expand on his theme a little , and flesh out the 10 recommendations with brief description , plus an opening and closing affirmation . The claim of it is simply “ 10 Recommended Works of Sound in Art . ” Here ’s what it will depend like from across the elbow room ( click it and you ’ll see the thing at a more legible scale ):
Here ’s a detail :
And here ’s the schoolbook , along with correlate YouTube videos . The videos are n’t in the exhibit , just in this post .
“ 10 Recommended Works of Sound in Art ”
I spent an afternoon once stray the city of San Francisco with a pop instrumentalist who had begun to put aside song in favor of auditory sensation . I bring up “ sound art ” but he rebuff me : genre , he said , was antithetic to the originative enterprise . I was confused until I , month later , recognise I was less interested in “ sound art ” than in “ sound in art . ” These 10 works are intend for listeners begin down a similar way of life .
Marc Weidenbaum
2025-01-20
1 . The Forty Part Motet
By Janet Cardiff2001
Forty verbalizer stand in a elbow room . Each emits the vocal channel of a different member of a choir singing a 16th - C piece of medicine . Walk amid them like one of the angels in Wim Wenders ’ film Wings of Desire .
2 . Vexations
By Erik Satie
c. 1893
A short piece of music is played 840 time in a row , for close to 20 hour . Soon enough the medicine ceases to be medicine and take on young function : installation , survival test , mystic journey , wallpaper , irritant , lullaby .
3 . Video Quartet
By Christian Marclay
2002
Bits of footage from numerous films run on four disjoined screens . Sound and move are choreograph in a fashion to make connectedness , and jokes , and even alternate narratives .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsITRuHs3o
4 . The Buddha car
By Christiaan Virant + Zhang Jian
2005
The Buddha Machine is a tiny loge ( also available as software ) that play brief effectual loop . It is sound graphics on the go , an objet d’art that is practical and economical .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_hoCsqDDs
5 . Deadly Edge
By Richard Stark ( aka Donald Westlake )
1971
“ Up here , the music was just a throbbing under the feet , a distant pulse . ” Thus begins the 13th novel in the Parker serial : a rock - concert stickup . All novels have a sonic constituent , specially novel about larceny .
6 . electric Walks
By Christina Kubisch
2004
Participants in a walk around the metropolis put on brawny wireless earpiece that are sensitive to electro - magnetic fields . They notice the autonomous music that beleaguer us .
7 . Listening Post
By Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
2003
Dozens of small screens display textbook pulled live from the World Wide Web based on singular inquiry . Text - to - spoken communication and music work the data to life history .
8 . Test Pattern
By Ryoji Ikeda
2008
Sound , along with other source info such as textbook and photos , is turned into an immersive instalment of barcode patterns .
9 . The Rise and dip of the Sounds and silence from Mars
By Christof Migone
2011
All the sound - connect language from Ray Bradbury ’s The Martian Chronicles are elicit and displayed — in a record book , in video , as an installation , on flag - like wit alfresco on a hillside .
10 . Times Square
By Max Neuhaus
1977
quick , enclose drones emanate from below a midtown Manhattan grate that serves primarily as a steam vent for the subway . Passersby mistake the sound as municipal in origin , or luxuriate in its unique properties , or both .
I ’d like to shut with an employment we do in a class I instruct about sound in the media landscape . Sit somewhere and drop a line down for 15 minutes everything that you hear . After the ego - evident sounds are accounted for , it can become arduous — but then the world open up again . The longer we go on listening , the more thing open up to our ear : one ’s family , one ’s office , a street recess . Even a museum — and even a museum where no art is intended to make a strait .
Update ( 2025-04-05 ): Here ’s a shot from the conservator , Coates , of the item-by-item notebook computer pages , each of which has been enlarge to the size of an A2 piece of theme . They ’ll be hung shortly :
More on the showing at Coates’facebook.compage and atductac.org/art.php . Coates ’ home on the Internet is atsimoncoates.com . peculiar thanks to Holly Leach of Albertson Design for the assistance with scanning .
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