Week 6: The open (Sound-Art) Work | Research and writing skills

Practice:

Here are some of the best-known examples of the process. (Eco, 1989 p.1)

There are several famous instances for the process down below:

Citation:

Eco, U. (1989) The open work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Brandon Labelle. (2015) Background noise: perspective on sound art, second edition. New York: Bloomsbury academic.

Hall:

Model citation:

1) Blog Post: select and find a book from the unit bibliography. Choose one quote from the book that you find confusing or too long and copy it into a new blog post. Then:

  • Sound work makes us aware of the continuing emphasis upon division and partition that continues to exist even in the most radically revisable or polymorphous gallery space, because sound spreads and leaks, like odour.

a) Paraphrase the quote using your own (different) words.

Upon division and partition is the key to allow us to realise it consistantly exist in the
b) Reference the original source accordingly after you have paraphrased it.

(Steve, 2023)
c) Write a bibliographic entry for the original sourced quote.

Steve, C. (2023) Ears Have Walls. Available at: https://www.stevenconnor.com/earshavewalls/.
2) Read: the following text about sound art and the gallery in preparation for week 7: http://www.stevenconnor.com/earshavewalls/

“Rather than moving from source to destination like a letter or a missile, sound diffuses in all directions, like a gas. Unlike light, sound goes round corners.” – How sound track works

“Sounds, by contrast, have a power to relieve and invigorate just as smells do.” – feelings & emotions conveys from sound

“Sound is doubly extramural, first of all in a disciplinary sense” – definition of sound

“their libertarian vocation somehow to go over the institutional wall, is that sound, like an odour or a giggle, escapes.” – How great the libertarian is for sound

“Special status of music in European and other Northern cultures has a strongly architectural determinant:”

“Though many of the artists represented in the show might well have paid lip service to the idea of the importance and pleasure of the diffusiveness of sound, the potential for undesirable interference was high.” – There are questions towards sound art, whether it is noise pollution or art, negative and unsupportive voice exist in the audience.

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