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Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions Through Electronic Music
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Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions Through Electronic Music Hardcover - 2004

by Katharine Norman


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Sounding Art is a journey that traverses a variety of aesthetic approaches to making electronic music. Katharine Norman, herself a composer, writes from a highly personal and unusual perspective. The series of eight extended essays is a long way from conventional academic writing, and covers far more than the traditional repertoire. The essays are themselves literary compositions, whose structure, language and visual appearance are carefully constructed to amplify their theme - whether it be microsound or acousmatic art, electroacoustic or radiophonic music, plunderphonics, turntables or noise. In addition to this listening travel, these essays take illustrative byways through subjects as diverse as map-making, metaphors of flight, emblem books, the history of recording, translating and walks in the rain. The accompanying CD is a route map for the ears, providing a great number of examples by many different composers and artists. Sounding Art is not a history book; it is a book about what sound might mean, and it's an invitation to listen.

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Here is a small collection of related and unrelated fragments - some brief stories about technology and sound, some small sounds as aesthetic objectives, and several short walks around the Philips Pavilion.

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  • Title Sounding Art: Eight Literary Excursions Through Electronic Music
  • Author Katharine Norman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date March 2004
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780754604266 / 0754604268
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.69 x 6.75 x 0.98 in (24.61 x 17.15 x 2.49 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003049624
  • Dewey Decimal Code 786.7

About the author

Katharine Norman is a composer, sound artist and writer. She received a PhD in composition from Princeton in 1993 and has, since then, pursued a career as a composer, academic and, increasingly, writer. However, during the writing of this book - which became something of a personal odyssey - she emigrated from London, England to a small island near to Vancouver. Prior to this change of direction she was, for five years, Director of the Electronic Music Studios at Goldsmiths, University of London and, before that, held various teaching posts in the UK. You can find more information on her work at http: //www.novamara.com
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