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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


About the Author

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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  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum (April 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0826418457
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826418456
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #417,344 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars essencial for anyone interested in sound art, June 21, 2009
This is an essencial book for anyone interested in sound art, or in installation art as a whole. It is a very well written historical review of sound art, theorically grounded, however using a simple and straight language.
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1.0 out of 5 stars More hippie nonsense, November 3, 2009
The author of this book, is arrogant, egomaniac, and in love with the sound of his own voice.
His style of writing consists of long strings of run on sentences that almost always end with "in other words..." where he then takes the time to dumb down his speech for the reader. If you're going to do that at the end of almost every sentence, why not write for the everyday man to begin with?

"Sound art" is music. Not a bunch of bohemian hippies who didn't take the time to learn an instrument, banging on pots and pans, or rewiring electronic toys to make shrieks, squeaks, and pops.

This book only further illustrates how far the art world has fallen.
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