This summer, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opens “Soundings: A Contemporary Score,” a much anticipated group exhibition that promises to present the work of some of the most innovative contemporary artists working with sound today. ARTPULSE took the opportunity to interview Barbara London, MoMA’s long-standing media art curator, who has [...]
By Caridad Botella
MORE THAN SOUND
Sound became part of aesthetic experience in the beginning of the 20th century, when artist Marcel Duchamp made With Hidden Noise (1917), a collaborative work with artist and friend Walter Arensberg. This ready-made included a secret piece added by Arensberg inside a ball of twine stuck between two brass [...]
By Stephen Truax
One-hundred meters past the end of the platform behind the Hauptbahnhoff-a commuter tram station that used to be the central train station in Kassel, Germany, artist Susan Philipsz positioned her seven-channel sound installation, Study for Strings, (2012). By the same title, Study for Strings is a one-movement work composed by Pavel [...]
