This is a fascinating overview of the history of sound art. The rise of a prominent auditory culture, as seen in the recent plethora of art exhibitions on sound art, in conjunction with academic programs dedicated to "aural culture", sonic art, and auditory issues now emerging, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st century. And yet, sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. "Background Noise" sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework.

Product Description: Soundwalk is an international sound collective founded in the early 2000s by Stephan Crasneanscki and based in New York City. In the summer of 2011, the collective retraced Medea’s mythical journey along the coast of the Black Sea, collecting fragments of voices, music, Morse code and ambient sound, collaging them into a work of sound art...read more

Product Description: Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music festivals; and has had installations and exhibitions around the world...read more

Product Description: 1000 people watching a tractor concert in southern Sweden is only one event documented in this magnificently designed book. “Automatism of the Rotation” presents several of Johansson’s pieces of music written for automobiles: crescendo and -decrescendo—-elements of classical composing—find their way into a world of familiar sounds presented in a new light...read more

Although working with high-tech equipment, Minard's installations evoke impressions of natural growth and life. Acoustic compositions enhance the effect, filling the sound artist's environments with a unique atmosphere, giving the viewer a new perspective on his everyday surroundings.

Product Description: Essentially this is a lavishly illustrated report on the Los Angeles-based German artist Christian Moeller, showing his extensive body of work from 1991 to 2002. "ARC.DE" describes a fascinating balancing act between the analogue and digital worlds, performed by a trained architect operating as an experimental creative force...read more

Product Description: This is the classic series from Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist Kenneth Roberts, all featuring characters from the town of Arundel, Maine. Arundel follows Steven Nason as he joins Benedict Arnold in his march to Quebec during the American Revolution...read more