Sounding the gallery
Subtitle: video and the rise of art-music
By: Holly Rogers
Series: Oxford music/media series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780199861408; 9780199861422
Subjects: History and criticism; Music; Video art
Description: Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also produced interactive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Composing with technology : the artist-composer; title: Silent music and static motion : the audio-visual history of video; title: Towards the spatial : music, art and the audiovisual environment; title: The rise of video art-music : 1963-1970; title: Interactivity, mirrored spaces and the closed-circuit feed : performing video.