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Sound art

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Sound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a primary medium. [1]

115 relations: Acousmonium, Acoustic ecology, Acoustic mirror, Acoustics, Alvin Lucier, Architecture, Art of Europe, Artist-in-residence, Audium (theater), Avant-garde, Blackpool High Tide Organ, Brian Massumi, Carolee Schneemann, Conceptual art, Contemporary art, Cristal baschet, Cross-genre, Dada, Data storage, David Byrne, Dick Raaymakers, Douglas Kahn, Eindhoven, Electroacoustic music, Electrocardiophone, Electroencephalophone, Electronic music, Electronics, Experimental music, Experimental theatre, Extrapool, Field recording, Film, Fluxus, Fredric Jameson, Ghent, Godfried-Willem Raes, Hannah Wilke, Happening, Het Apollohuis, Index of articles related to sound art, Installation art, Institute of Sonology, Interdisciplinarity, Intermedia, Intonarumori, Jacques Attali, Janek Schaefer, Jim Pomeroy (artist), Joe Lewis (artist), ..., John Cage, Joseph Nechvatal, Keith Sonnier, Kortrijk, Les Levine, List of art media, List of sound artists, Logos Foundation, Luigi Russolo, Lydgalleriet, Minimalism, Moodswinger, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New media art, Nicolas Collins, Noise music, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Panopticons, Paul Panhuysen, Pauline Oliveros, Performance art, Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium, Playing the Building, Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof, Psychoacoustics, Public space, Radio art, Remko Scha, Richard Lerman, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Sari Dienes, Sculpture, Sea organ, Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons), Site-specific art, Situationist International, Sonification, Sound, Sound effect, Sound installation, Sound map, Sound poetry, Sound sculpture, Soundscape, Spoken word, Springer Science+Business Media, Staalplaat, STEIM, Stockholm, Surrealism, Susan McClary, Talking Heads, Terry Fox (artist), The Hague, Transmediale, Utrecht School of the Arts, Video, Video game music, Visual arts, Visual music, Vito Acconci, Work of art, WORM (Rotterdam), Yuri Landman, Zadar. Expand index (65 more) »

Acousmonium

The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France.

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Acoustic ecology

Acoustic ecology, sometimes called ecoacoustics or soundscape studies, is a discipline studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment.

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Acoustic mirror

An acoustic mirror is a passive device used to reflect and focus (concentrate) sound waves.

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Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Art of Europe

The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe.

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Artist-in-residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, to reside within the premises of an institution.

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Audium (theater)

Audium is a sound art event that has been presented weekly in San Francisco since 1967.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Blackpool High Tide Organ

The High Tide Organ is a tidal organ tall constructed in 2002 as part of "The Great Promenade Show" series of sculptures situated along Blackpool's New Promenade in the UK.

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Brian Massumi

Brian Massumi (born 1956) is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist.

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Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann (born October 12, 1939) is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Contemporary art

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the late 20th century or in the 21st century.

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Cristal baschet

The Cristal Baschet is a contemporary musical instrument developed in 1952 by the brothers Bernard and François Baschet.

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Cross-genre

A cross-genre (or hybrid genre) is a genre in fiction that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.

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Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, writer, actor, and filmmaker.

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Dick Raaymakers

Dick Raaijmakers (also Raaymakers; 1 September 1930 – 4 September 2013) was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist.

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Douglas Kahn

Douglas Kahn (born 1951) is Professor of Media and Innovation at the (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, where he was the Founding Director of Technocultural Studies.

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Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams.

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Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice.

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Electrocardiophone

An electrocardiophone and cardiophone is a musical instrument or diagnostic tool which uses heart waves (measured in the same way as an ECG) to generate or modulate sounds.

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Electroencephalophone

An electroencephalophone or encephalophone is an experimental musical instrument and diagnostic tool which uses brain waves (measured in the same way as an EEG) to generate or modulate sounds.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronics

Electronics is the discipline dealing with the development and application of devices and systems involving the flow of electrons in a vacuum, in gaseous media, and in semiconductors.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre) began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Extrapool

Extrapool is a Nijmegen based non-profit foundation and an artist-run initiative focused on experimental music, movies, avant-garde art and underground art.

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Field recording

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fluxus

Fluxus is an international and interdisciplinary group of artists, composers, designers and poets that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.

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Ghent

Ghent (Gent; Gand) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Godfried-Willem Raes

Godfried-Willem Raes is a Belgian composer, performer and instrument maker.

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Hannah Wilke

Hannah Wilke (born Arlene Hannah Butter; March 7, 1940 – January 28, 1993) was an American painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist and performance artist.

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Happening

A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art.

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Het Apollohuis

Het Apollohuis (The Apollo House) was a space for experimental music and visual arts, "focused in particular on...

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Index of articles related to sound art

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Institute of Sonology

The Institute of Sonology is an education and research center for electronic music and computer music based at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands.

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Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).

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Intermedia

Intermedia was a term used in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe various inter-disciplinary art activities that occurred between genres in the 1960s.

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Intonarumori

Intonarumori are a group of experimental musical instruments invented and built by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo between roughly 1910 and 1930.

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Jacques Attali

Jacques Attali (born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1991-1993.

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Janek Schaefer

Janek Schaefer is a London-based sound artist, composer and entertainer.

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Jim Pomeroy (artist)

James C. Pomeroy (March 21, 1945 Reading, Pennsylvania – April 6, 1992, Arlington, Texas) was an American artist whose practice spanned a variety of media including performance art, sound art, photography, installation art, sculpture, and video art.

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Joe Lewis (artist)

Joe Lewis (Joseph S. Lewis III) (born 1953 in New York City) is a visual artist, photographer, musician, and art critic.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph James Nechvatal (born 15 January 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.

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Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier (born 1941, Mamou, Louisiana) is a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist.

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Kortrijk

Kortrijk (in English also Courtrai or Courtray; official name in Dutch: Kortrijk,; West Flemish: Kortryk or Kortrik, Courtrai,; Cortoriacum) is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.

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Les Levine

Les Levine (born 1935) is a naturalized American Irish artist known as a pioneer of video art and as a post-conceptual artist working with mass communication.

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List of art media

Art media is the material used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art.

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List of sound artists

This is a list of sound artists.

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Logos Foundation

The Logos Foundation is a professional artistic organisation founded in 1968.

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Luigi Russolo

Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 6 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).

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Lydgalleriet

Lydgalleriet (The Soundgallery) is a non-commercial gallery for sound based art practices, situated in the centre of Bergen.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Moodswinger

The Moodswinger is a twelve-string electric zither with an additional third bridge designed by Yuri Landman.

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New Interfaces for Musical Expression

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in musical expression and artistic performance.

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New media art

New media art refers to artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing, cyborg art and art as biotechnology.

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Nicolas Collins

Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier.

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Noise music

Noise music is a category of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise within a musical context.

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Noise: The Political Economy of Music

Noise: The Political Economy of Music is a non-fiction book by French economist and scholar, Jacques Attali.

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Panopticons

Panopticons is an arts and regeneration project of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network managed by Mid Pennine Arts.

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Paul Panhuysen

Paul Panhuysen (21 August 1934 – 29 January 2015) was a Dutch composer, visual and sound artist.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.

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Performance art

Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.

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Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium

The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (English translation: Philips Physics Laboratory) or NatLab was the Dutch section of the Philips research department, which did research for the product divisions of that company.

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Playing the Building

Playing the Building was an art installation by David Byrne, ex singer of Talking Heads, and Färgfabriken, an independent art venue in Stockholm.

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Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof

Provincial Domain Dommelhof is an institution of the province Limburg (Belgium) in Belgium for culture, performing arts, and sports.

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Psychoacoustics

Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception and audiology.

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Public space

A public space is a place that is generally open and accessible to people.

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Radio art

Radio art, refers to the use of radio for art.

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Remko Scha

Remko Jan Hendrik Scha (15 September 1945 – 9 November 2015) was a professor of computational linguistics at the faculty of humanities and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

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Richard Lerman

Richard Lerman (Dec 5, 1944 in San Francisco, CA) is a composer and sound artist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made contact microphones of unusually small size,"Layne, Joslyn (2011).

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Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

The Royal Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, KABK) is an art academy in The Hague.

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Sari Dienes

Sari Dienes (8 October 1898 – 25 May 1992) was a Hungarian-born American artist.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Sea organ

The Sea organ (Morske orgulje) is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps.

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Singing Ringing Tree (Panopticons)

The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England.

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Site-specific art

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

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Sonification

Sonification is the use of non-speech audio to convey information or perceptualize data.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Sound installation

Sound installation (related to sound art and sound sculpture) is an intermedia and time based art form.

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Sound map

Sound maps are digital geographical maps that put emphasis on the sonic representation of a specific location.

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Sound poetry

Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literary and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words".

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Sound sculpture

Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is an intermedia and time based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass).

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Soundscape

The soundscape is the component of the acoustic environment that can be perceived by humans.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Staalplaat

Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin.

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STEIM

STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Susan McClary

Susan Kaye McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist associated with the "New Musicology".

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Talking Heads

Talking Heads was an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

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Terry Fox (artist)

Terry Fox (1943 – October 14, 2008) was an American video, conceptual, sound, and performance artist.

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The Hague

The Hague (Den Haag,, short for 's-Gravenhage) is a city on the western coast of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of South Holland.

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Transmediale

transmediale is an annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, usually held over five days at the end of January and the beginning of February.

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Utrecht School of the Arts

The HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, HKU) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Video game music

Video game music is the soundtrack that accompanies video games.

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Visual arts

The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture.

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Visual music

Visual music, sometimes called colour music, refers to the use of musical structures in visual imagery, which can also include silent films or silent Lumia work.

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Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design.

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Work of art

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

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WORM (Rotterdam)

WORM is a Rotterdam based non-profit foundation and a multi-media alternative cultural centre focused on experimental, new media art, avant-garde and underground art, primarily music and movies.

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Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn, and Laura-Mary Carter.

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Zadar

Zadar (see other names) is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art

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