Quote: “All literature and poetry are forms of sound art…”

Review by Joe Banks of the book “Experimental Sound & Radio” and “Voice Tears” CD, edited by Allen Weiss, MIT Press, 2001. The review appears on page 47 of Art Monthly magazine, issue 250, October 2001 (the 25th anniversary issue of Art Monthly). As regards “Experimental Sound & Radio”, the review says (among other things) that research of the quality represented by this anthology “may well keep less erudite sound artists in funding proposals for years”.

As regards contextual statements, the review asserts that “sound art is an area in which mainstream critical taste is trailing behind the avant-garde of popular culture by decades”, that “in human culture, sound is the primal medium for the formulation and transmission of concepts”, and that “the codes which embody digital information are recombinations of visual symbols, which, to paraphrase Aristotle… are indivisible recombinations of sounds”. The review also states that “rather than being a marginal art form, sound art encompasses not only radio production, sound installation and record publishing, but also music, spoken language, theatrical dialogue, and literature, poetry and all multimedia, product and cinematic sound design”.

As such, the review served as a testing ground for ideas that re-appeared in the “Rorschach Audio” book, particularly for the assertions that since “written language is based on symbolic visual representations of indivisible sounds - therefore firstly… all literature and poetry are forms of sound art, and secondly the earliest form of sound recording technology was not a machine but was written language” (“Rorschach Audio” book, pages 95 to 96).

See also - rorschachaudio.com/2013/12/18/stealing-my-thunder/

Taken on: December 31, 2016

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