• Interview with Peter Kutin and Daniel Lercher

• Soundscape as Discursive Practice (PDF)

Abstract:-

Barry Blesser talks of the “perceptual uncertainty principle” in relation to academic disciplines: either a discipline asks broad questions (real life) without having paradigms that provide numeric answers, or it asks narrow questions (lab science) with paradigms that provide numeric answers but with limited applicability. This paper asks broad questions about soundscape art, a sub-discipline of phonographic art practice. It looks at soundscape as a discursive practice in the context of a specific work of sound art drawn from an immediate, or natural, soundscape; that of Seville’s streets during the processions of Semana Santa or Holy Week. By means of multiple perspective recordings carried out on the streets, a mediated soundscape is created for presentation
over various configurations of loudspeakers using digital technology. In the process of creating the work both the immediate and the mediated soundscapes became objects of research with their own separate bundle of problems. The discussion will focus on how meaning is constructed through the appropriation and manipulation of phonographic forms.

This paper was presented at the Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, 10 - 11 April 2008, University of Reading.

• Politics and Art: Sound Art - the Politics of Representation, Truth and Listening (PDF)

Abstract:-

This article introduces the reader to the history and current practice of sound art as a broad spectrum of practices, attempting to categorise the various practices as far as possible. It then focuses on those practices which demonstrate their political engagement by challenging 'conventional' listening norms in their underlying aesthetic, approach and procedures.

The article, along with others on the theme of Politics and Art, is published in the online arts journal, Geometer .