Unlike visual art, sound art surrounds us and has the capacity to create an atmosphere – a world.
The first time I saw Paul Prudence perform Cyclotone was in the vault of a deconsecrated church at Goldsmiths College in London (pp. 249-250). The audience wore heavy coats, breathing steam. […]
As in his Quantum Man (pp. 119-20), Julian Voss-Andreae explores ambiguities in quantum physics and how they manifest themselves dramatically in our daily world. The appearance of objects depends on how we view them. Quantum Man focussed on the mind-boggling wave/particle duality according to which an electron can be a wave and particle at the same time. This is beyond our senses, this is unimaginable and so unimageable. How we “look” at the electron, that is what experiment we use, that is what it is, either a wave or a particle. […]
SciArt in America just ran a story on David Cope, a computer scientist-musician in California (http://www.sciartinamerica.com/blog/-can-computers-write-meaningful-music). He has succeeded in writing software for generating music that is difficult to distinguish from music written by humans, J.S. Bach being one of his examples. To me this raises an important point: Can Cope’s software tell us something … Read more