Robert Adrian X exhibition catalogue (2001) [German, English]

Robert Adrian X is an artist making installations, music and radio projects as well as works in public space since 1950s; since early 1980s he is the pioneer in the field of telecommunication.

A fragile sculpture made of cigar packages, painted in the style of De Stijl, a canvas that radiates in the subdued hues of Yves Klein’s “patented” blue, and a faded Amiga monitor with colourfully gleaming computer graphics, all lined up on a red shelf. Modern Art IV (1990), thus runs the title of this work, finds a common denominator for the art of the 20th Century, including that of the sampling brand.

152 pages, german/english, illustrated, with essays by Timothy Druckrey, Georg Schöllhammer and Reinhard Braun, ISBN 3-85247-028-5
Editor: Kunsthalle Wien, Lucas Gehrmann, Gerald Matt
Publisher: Kunsthalle Wien
Year: 2001
Exhibition/Project: Exhibition Robert Adrian X (07.12.2001 – 10.02.2002)

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Allen S. Weiss (ed.): Experimental Sound & Radio (2000)

Art making and criticism have focused mainly on the visual media. This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art. Taking the approach that there is no single entity that constitutes “radio,” but rather a multitude of radios, the essays explore various aspects of its apparatus, practice, forms, and utopias. The approaches include historical, political, popular cultural, archeological, semiotic, and feminist. Topics include the formal properties of radiophony, the disembodiment of the radiophonic voice, aesthetic implications of psychopathology, gender differences in broadcast musical voices and in narrative radio, erotic fantasy, and radio as an electronic memento mori.

The book includes a new piece by Allen Weiss on the origins of sound recording.

Contributors:
John Corbett, Tony Dove, René Farabet, Richard Foreman, Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Mary Louise Hill, G. X. Jupitter-Larsen, Douglas Kahn, Terri Kapsalis, Alexandra L. M. Keller, Lou Mallozzi, Jay Mandeville, Christof Migone, Joe Milutis, Kaye Mortley, Mark S. Roberts, Susan Stone, Allen S. Weiss, Gregory Whitehead, David Williams, Ellen Zweig.

Publisher MIT Press, 2000
ISBN 0262731304, 9780262731300
Length 188 pages

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Simon Emmerson (ed.): Music, Electronic Media, and Culture (2000)

Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a close and a new century begins a new revolution in roles is underway. The separate categories of composer, performer, distributor and listener are being challenged, while the sounds of the world itself become available for musical use. All kinds of sounds are now brought into the remit of composition, enabling the music of others to be sampled (or plundered), including that of unwitting musicians from non-western cultures. This sound world may appear contradictory – stimulating and invigorating as well as exploitative and destructive. This book addresses some of the issues now posed by the brave new world of music produced with technology.

Contents: Introduction, Simon Emmerson; Part One: Listening and interpreting: Through and around the acousmatic: the interpretation of electroacoustic sounds, Luke Windsor; Simulation and reality: the new sonic objects, Ambrose Field; Beyond the acousmatic: hybrid tendencies in electroacoustic music, Simon Waters; Part Two: Cultural noise: Plunderphonics, Chris Cutler; Crossing cultural boundaries through technology?, Simon Emmerson; Cacophony, Robert Worby; Part Three: New places, spaces and narratives: Art on air: a proile of new radio art, Kersten Glandien; ‘Losing touch’? the human performer and electronics, Simon Emmerson; Stepping outside for a moment: narrative space in two works for sound alone, Katharine Norman; Index.

Publisher Ashgate, 2000
ISBN 0754601099, 9780754601098
Length 252 pages

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Michal Rataj: Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu (2006) [Czech]

Každé médium v tom nejobecnějším slova smyslu si v prostředí současného evropského umění po staletí buduje své vyjadřovací prostředky, své kódy, tvůrčí způsoby sdělování, i svou žánrovou, estetickou a sociokulturní orientaci. Za několik desítek let existence soustavné umělecké tvorby pro rozhlas se vyvinula celá řada více či méně ustálených, standardizovaných a tradici konstitujících forem, ať už je to rozhlasová hra, rozhlasový dokument, umělecká reportáž ad. To, co bývá dnes nejčastěji nazýváno “radioartem” se snaží – v různých zemích různými způsoby – prozkoumávat prostor právě nad tím vším standardizovaným, ustáleným, zřejmým a čitelným. Radioart se snaží objevovat nové vyjadřovací prostředky, nové formy oné “interaktivní akustické komunikace” a ověřovat jejich platnost a vhodnost pro zpětné užití ve standardizované mediální produkci. Tím dlouhodobě – tak jako v každém oboru lidské činnosti – vystupuje z pomyslného ghetta uzavřené laboratoře a existuje jako nezastupitelné podhoubí, z něhož vyrůstají nové podněty pro tvorbu dalších generací umělců.

Disertační práce
Elektroakustická hudba a vybrané koncepty radioartu. Problematika vymezování tvůrčích pozic v prostředí akustických umění z pohledu domácí scény radioartu
Akademie múzických umění v Praze, Hudební fakulta, Elektroakustická a multimediální tvorba
Vedoucí práce: prof. PhDr. MgA. Milan Slavický
Praha: HAMU, 2006

Electroacoustic Music and Selected Concepts of Radioart. Artistic positioning within acoustic arts observed from the Czech radio-art scene’s point of view
The main purpose of the present thesis is to search for ways of methodological orientation within reflection of electroacoustic music, seen through the prism of what has been recently called acoustic arts. The way we try to formulate such positioning deals with particular methodological tasks: we try to generate space in which it is possible to think of “artistic discourses” within acoustic arts; subsequently, the thesis describes the specific discourse of electroacoustic music/ radioart, explaining it from the viewpoint of the Czech radio-art producer.

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