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In the Blink of an Ear - Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback, New)
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In the Blink of an Ear - Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Paperback, New)
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An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the
present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a "non-retinal" visual
art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an
Ear 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 itself--or as the
unwanted child of music--artist 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 Francois 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: George BrechtJohn CageJanet CardiffMarcel
Duchamp Bob DylanValie ExportLuc FerrariJarrod FowlerJacob
KirkegaardAlvin LucierRobert MorrisMuddy WatersJohn Oswald Marina
Rosenfeld Pierre Schaeffer Stephen Vitiello La Monte Young >
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