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Indepth Arts News:
"Sounds Like Art"
1999-08-28 until 1999-11-07
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA,
USA United States of America
Four artists share perspectives on the
merging of art and music in Sounds Like Art, a multidisciplinary arts festival
that examines the relationship between sound and contemporary art. Drawing
on all four curatorial departments, Sounds Like Art will present installations,
concerts, films and panels that consider how sound has become a continuing
subject matter for art and artists. Sounds Like Art was curated by Chief
Curator Renny Pritikin and Visual Arts Curator René de Guzman, and
includes work by Beth Custer, Matt Heckert, Trimpin and Marina Rosenfeld.
Sounds Like Art runs August 28, 1999 through November 7, 1999 and was
made possible in part by a generous grant from AT&T.
Beginning in the post-World War II era, the work of John Cage made a case
for the idea that breaking down distinctions between noise and music would
open up possibilities for auditory pleasure. Random sonic juxtapositions
traffic sounds, voices, the chirping of birds could suddenly become impromptu
symphonies. This increased openness to sonic experience was augmented in
ensuing decades by computer technologies, which added an enormous range
of sound possibilities to the mix. Since the 70s there has been a movement
afoot among artists from composers to musicians to sculptors to make new
music out of new instruments. In the spirit of this inventiveness, Yerba Buena
presents a festival that considers these possibilities by looking at the work of a
younger generation of artists whose work is expanding the boundaries of
music.
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