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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and(...)
Making noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & beyond
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific.
Architectural Theory
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The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art(...)
Background noise: perspectives on sound art
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The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework Brandon LaBelle is a writer and curator who currently lives in Denmark. From 1998 to 2002 he developed and curated an international sound art festival in Los Angeles, Beyond Music; in 2001 he developed and organized Social Music, a series of radio works for Kunstradio in Vienna; in 2002 he curated Concrete Feedback, an exhibition of sound installations working with architecture, presented at the Southern California Institute of Architecture; and in 2002-03 he researched and curated the music section to the exhibition, Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s - 1970s for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Spacing #67: Noise
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Spacing #67: Noise
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 : hortus conclusus / [designed by] Peter Zumthor, [Piet Oudolf].
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94 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
London : Serpentine Gallery : Koenig Books, 2011.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 : hortus conclusus / [designed by] Peter Zumthor, [Piet Oudolf].
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London : Serpentine Gallery : Koenig Books, 2011.
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
311 1/2. Épisode 208, Alaia répond à Sylvie, qui a un chat qui ne peut plus dormir ou regarder dehors à cause des travaux = Alaia responds to Sylvie, whose cat won't sleep or look out because of construction outside.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
311 1/2. Episode 332, Eli répond à Yoshio, qui a de la difficulté à traverser la rue Sherbrooke avec sa chaise roulante = Eli responds to Yoshi, who is having a difficult time crossing Sherbrooke street with his wheelchair.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (2 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
311 1/2. Épisode 68, Savannah et Corinne répondent à Ana, qui a peur de ne plus voir d'oiseaux à cause de la construction d'un nouvel échangeur = Savannah and Corinne respond to Ana, who is afraid that all birds will leave because of the construction of a new highway.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
311 1/2. Épisode 93, Clément et son assistante répondent à Sylvie, qui a un chat qui ne peut plus dormir ou regarder dehors à cause des travaux = Clément and his assistant respond to Sylvie, whose cat won't sleep or look out because of construction outside.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
311 1/2. Episode 53, Madeleine répond à Claudette, qui cherche à protéger les enfants au terrain de jeux des dangers du chantier avoisinant = Madeleine responds to Claudette, who wants to protect the kids at the playground from the dangers of a nearby construction site.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]
311 1/2. Episode 211, Agathe et Raphaëlle répondent à Lucienne, qui a deux chats qui se comportent bizarrement depuis le début des travaux = Agathe and Raphaëlle respond to Lucienne, whose two cats have been acting strangely since construction began nearby.
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[Montréal] : CCA, [2017]