Author Archives: Zihan Zhang

Week 7: Gallery Visit – Longplayer

a) write up your review. You may include any photographs and sounds you may have recorded. During the Gallery Visit the lady introduced us what is Longplayer, she said this piece has been played for 23 years and is designed … Continue reading

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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: … Continue reading

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Week 5: Post-modernity and Sound Arts

Select: one historical artwork or movement presented to you in lecture Fluxus: In an early manifesto, flux appears as “Act of flowing: a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; a continuing succession of changes”. Which … Continue reading

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Week 3: Sound Arts Now! Definitions, Literature and Keywords

Three keywords related to sound arts that are important to yourpractice/aspirations (what they mean to you andwhy they are important/of interest): 3 keywords: What they mean to me: Why they are important: Liberation Hildegrad westerkamp used this word in his … Continue reading

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Week 4: Modernity, the Sonic Avant-Garde & Proto-Sound Arts

One historical artwork or movement presented to you in lecture: Conceptual art – is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. Research the work and in your blog, describe its … Continue reading

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4A Sense of Place, Sense of Self (Mark Peter Wright) 16thOctober 

Find a ‘small site’ that has meaning to you. Record it everyday for 1 week. Upload sounds and written reflections on what you learn to your blog. Day 1: Oct 18 Wednesday Rainy Time 8:00pm Duration 00:47:25 This is the … Continue reading

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1A Sounds Out of Place (Dawn Scarfe) 25th September

Listen: On my Journey home l heard different sound from the underground, l take tube home, so the most notable sound was when the tube arrives and it streaked across the track, it is usually very sharp with some bumpiness, … Continue reading

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Week 2: My initial interest in sound art

As an Fine art and design student, this is my very first time to experience anythings to do with sound, at the very beginning l do not understand the meaning of sound art at all. However, after the two days … Continue reading

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