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Sounding the Gallery
Holly Rogers
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Description for Sounding the Gallery
Paperback. Sounding the Gallery argues that early video art is an audiovisual genre. The new video technology not only enabled artists to sound their visual work and composers to visualise their music during the 1960s: it also initiated a spatial form of engagement that encouraged new relationships between art / music practices and their audiences. Series: Oxford Music/Media Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 32 photographs. BIC Classification: AFKV; APF; AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Sounding the Gallery 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. 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 in a quick and easy manner. But video not only provided artists and composers with the opportunity to produce unprecedented forms of ... Read more
Sounding the Gallery 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. 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 in a quick and easy manner. But video not only provided artists and composers with the opportunity to produce unprecedented forms of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Music/Media Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199861422
SKU
V9780199861422
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About Holly Rogers
Holly Rogers is Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool. She has published on a variety of audiovisual topics including music and experimental cinema, visual music and composer biopics.
Reviews for Sounding the Gallery
Sounding the Gallery stands as impressive achievement which rescues the musical dimensions of video work, whilst also convincingly and thickly arguing for its intermedial, aesthetically pioneering audiovisuality, and its performative innovation.
Stephen Graham, MSMI
[Rogers] breadth of knowledge offers readers from various backgrounds a concise yet insightful look at the beginnings of video art-music. With its emphasis on ... Read more
Stephen Graham, MSMI
[Rogers] breadth of knowledge offers readers from various backgrounds a concise yet insightful look at the beginnings of video art-music. With its emphasis on ... Read more