In the blink of an ear : toward a non-cochlear sonic art / Seth Kim-Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim-Cohen, Seth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

<div><strong>An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present</strong> Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. <em>In the Blink of an Ear</em> is the first book to ask why the sonic arts did not experience a parallel turn toward a non-cochlear sonic art, imagined as both a response and a complement to Duchamp's conceptualism. Rather than treat sound art as an artistic practice unto itselfor as the unwanted child of musicartist and theorist Seth Kim-Cohen relates the post-War sonic arts to contemporaneous movements in the gallery arts. Applying key ideas from poststructuralism, deconstruction, and art history, In the Blink of an Ear suggests that the sonic arts have been subject to the same cultural pressures that have shaped minimalism, conceptualism, appropriation, and relational aesthetics. Sonic practice and theory have downplayed - or, in many cases, completely rejected - the de-formalization of the artwork and its simultaneous animation in the conceptual realm. Starting in 1948, the simultaneous examples of John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer initiated a sonic theory-in-practice, fusing clement Greenberg's media-specificity with a phenomenological emphasis on perception. Subsequently, the "sound-in-itself" tendency has become the dominant paradigm for the production and reception of sound art. Engaged with critical texts by Jacques Derrida, Rosalind Krauss, Friedrich Kittler, Jean François Lyotard, and Jacques Attali, among others, Seth Kim-Cohen convincingly argues for a reassessment of the short history of sound art, rejecting sound-in-itself in favor of a reading of sound's expanded situation and its uncontainable textuality. At the same time, this important book establishes the principles for a nascent non-cochlear sonic practice, embracing the inevitable interaction of sound with the social, the linguistic, the philosophical, the political, and the technological. Artists discussed include: </div> <div> George Brecht John Cage Janet Cardiff Marcel Duchamp Bob Dylan Valie Export Luc Ferrari Jarrod Fowler Jacob Kirkegaard Alvin Lucier Robert Morris Muddy Waters John Oswald Marina Rosenfeld Pierre Schaeffer Stephen Vitiello La Monte Young </div>

Contents:

Introduction. At, out, about

In one ear, out the other : Clement Greenberg, Pierre Schaeffer, John Cage, Muddy Waters

Be more specific : Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Robert Morris

The perception of primacy : Annette Michelson, Robert Morris, Charles Sanders Peirce, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Rosalind Krauss, Jacques Derrida

Ohrenblick : Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Jacques Attali, Christina Kubisch

Sound-in-itself : Francisco López, Stephen Vitiello, Jacob Kirkegaard, La Monte Young, James Snead, Sam Phillips

Unhearing Cage : Rosalind Krauss, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, George Brecht

Sound-out-of-itself : Luc Ferrari, Alvin Lucier, Bob Dylan

A dot on a line : Bruce Nauman, VALIE EXPORT, Jean-François Lyotard, Douglas Kahn, Janet Cardiff, Jarrod Fowler, Marina Rosenfeld, Nicolas Bourriaud

Conclusion. Lend an ear.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612876462

9781501382796

1501382799

9781282876460

1282876465

9781441183071

1441183078

OCLC:

676700640