Overview

This book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art’s politics, unfolding through the participants’ affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.

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Author:   Vadim Keylin
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9789819963560

ISBN 10:   9819963567
Pages:   155
Publication Date:   21 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction1.1 Sound art and participation 1.2 Sound, art, music 1.3 Participation, interactivity, collaboration   Chapter 2. Histories 2.1 Sound, participation and Gesamtkunstwerk 2.2 Sound and participation in historical Avantgarde 2.3 Sound and participation in the Post-war Avantgarde 2.4 Sound and participation after the Cold War 2.5 Interactive audio and digital culture   Chapter 3. Discourses 3.1 Sonic, spatial, social 3.2 Sense vs. senses 3.3 Sonic pragmatism 3.4 Sonic doing: acts and gestures 3.5 Creative undergoing: agencies and ecologies   Chapter 4. Affordances 4.1 Sound artworks as platforms 4.2 Aesthetic affordances 4.3 Technological environments 4.4 Beyond the artwork 4.5 Materiality and sociality   Chapter 5. Perspectives 5.1 Creative agency 5.2 Let Us Sing Your Place 5.3 Speaker Sculptures 5.4 Perspectives on participation   Chapter 6. Gestures 6.1 Sonic gestures between symbols and actions 6.2 Gestures of concern 6.3 Gestures of empowerment 6.4 Gestures of togetherness 6.5 Sounds of the possible   Chapter 7. Conclusion  

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Vadim Keylin holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Culture from Aarhus University and is currently a research associate in the ERC project “Poetry in the Digital Age” (University of Hamburg). He has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on experimental musical instruments, interactive sound art and sound in participatory culture.

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