Bianchi, Frederick - Environmental Sound Artists

Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words is an incisive and imaginative look at the international environmental sound art movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. The book presents a current perspective on the movement through a collection of personal writings by important environmental sound artists.

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CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sonifications of Global Environmental Data
Andrea Polli
2. Sewer Pipe Organ
Philip Blackburn
3. Biophonic Sound Sculptures in Public Spaces
Bernie Krause
4. A Philosophical Report From Work-In-Progress
David Dunn
5. Listening to the Earth
John Bullitt
6. The Place Where You Go to Listen: An Ecosystem of Sound and Light
John Luther Adams
7. Meltwater
Cheryl E. Leonard
8. Hearing Curved Space
Jeff Talman
9. River Listening
Leah Barclay
10. Sun Boxes
Craig Colorusso
11. Bridge Music and Tower Music
Joseph Bertolozzi
12. Data as Music: Why Musically Encoded Sonification Design Offers a Rich Palette for Information Display
Marty Quinn
13. Sonic Landscapes (finding a sense of place with my ears)
Bruce Odland
14. Sonic Migrations: listening in-between, sensing place
Ximena Alarcon
15. Sound Architecture
Zimoun
16. The Sonic Ecology of Structures
China Blue
17. Why Bring Nature Into Your Music?
David Rothenberg
18. The Dawn Chorus
Gordon Hempton
19. Bivvy Broadcasts
Dawn Scarfe
20. A Philosophy of Eco-acoustics in the Interdisciplinary Project Fragments of Extinction
David Monacchi
21. Towards Activist Sound: N30 Live at the WTO Protest November 30, 1999
Christopher DeLaurenti
22. The Listening Experience of Paramnesia
Aki Pasoulas
23. Musical Heuristics in Six Ecoacoustic Quintets
Matthew Burtner
Index