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Material Soun

Name: Material Soun
Brand: GOLDSMITHS PRESS
SKU: 9781915983633
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By Caleb Kelly
Imprint: GOLDSMITHS PRESS
Release Date: February 17, 2027
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
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Pages: 240

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Moving beyond John Cages influential focus on "sound-as-sound," this study explores how installation and media artists reveal the material realities hidden within sonic experience. Sound emerges from material contestation-there can be no sound without the shifting of matter. Yet in our fractured relationship with materials, we have often forgotten these physical origins. Caleb Kelly argues that by listening to the edges of the sonic, where sound is not always aesthetic, we can think differently about both media and matter.

Spanning two pivotal periods in art history, Material Sound traces the shift from the dematerialisation of art objects in the mid-20th century to contemporary practices that make tangible our material realities. The book examines artists who are well known for their sound-based practices, including Len Lye, Max Neuhaus and Laurie Anderson, alongside others not typically associated with sound, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Vito Acconci and Nancy Holt. The book also focuses on contemporary artists from the Asia-Pacific region, expanding the critical context for sound studies beyond Western perspectives.

Drawing on extensive archival research and critical attention to artworks from both internationally renowned and under-recognized artists, Material Sound offers transformative insights into how mediated art experiences can deepen our understanding of ecological realities by listening to materials.

Caleb Kelly is an academic, curator, and event director specializing in sound arts. He is Associate Professor of Media Art Theory at UNSW Art & Design and the author of Gallery Sound (2017) and Cracked Media (2009). Caleb also edited Sound (2011), part of the Documents of Contemporary Art series. As a curator, Calebs recent projects include "Material Sound" (2018) for MAMA in Albury, which toured Australias east coast from 2020-2022, and "Materials, Sounds and the Black Mountain College" at the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville. His work bridges theoretical inquiry and curatorial practice in the expanding field of sound art. He lives in Australia.

In Material Sound, Caleb Kelly joins other sound studies scholars, including Steve Goodman, Nina Sun Eidsheim, and Stefan Helmreich, who are collectively pushing against the boundaries of the discipline. However, his foregrounding of post-1960s art and media practices in this study is quite unique, and challenges the ocularcentrism in this area."-Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, CA.

Material Sound cogently explains how sound-based artwork, created before the 1980s as visual art, grew to be fully accepted as contemporary art. Caleb Kelly is the knowledgeable scholar who understands the complex, transnational history of sound as art. His book is a must read by everyone interested in the multifaceted, always upgrading field. "-Barbara London, curator and writer.

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