Category: sound art

Joseph Young of the Neo-Futurist Collective: The End of Listening (ReAwakening of a City #5), 2011

Here is an urgent response to so-called Neo-Futurism: criticismism feels obliged to vehemently oppose it, although I realise this blog is probably doing a minor service to Joseph Young and his colleagues by doing so. Nevertheless, it is to be condemned. The original futurists were seductive right wing agitators who…

Martin Creed, Work No. 117, All the sounds on a drum machine (1995), at The Poetry Library

Work No. 117 by Martin Creed is a jokey little number. It consists of an audio tape on which can be heard, as advertised, every noise on a drum machine played in sequence. As it runs the gamut of automated sounds, it sounds like an ironic comment on the technology…

Victoria Karlsson – Scores for Silence, a&e gallery

Art has always had a close relationship with the frame around the work or the plinth on which it sits. At least one entire book has been written about this frequently overlooked object. In either case, the presentation brings something to the art. It adds value. No consideration of a…