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Half Sound, Half Philosophy - Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art (Hardcover)
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Half Sound, Half Philosophy - Aesthetics, Politics, and History of China's Sound Art (Hardcover)
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Total price: R3,365
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From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been
developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic
milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world,
music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its
unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the
history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back
in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target
of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both
academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music
activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates
with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its
artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology
and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui
(mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and
distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back
to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound
and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing
understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham’s
statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and
expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary
music at large.
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