Sonic Art & Sound Design- P25:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | REALISATION AND PRESENTATION Christina Kubisch Originally trained as a composer Christina Kubisch describes herself as belonging to the first generation of sound artists and has become well known for her installation works. She describes her work as the synthesis of arts - the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other. This page and facing Electrical Walks Electrical Walks is a cycle of works that equips the visitor with a map of potentially interesting electrical fields in the locality and an induction headset that renders these fields into sound. Thus equipped the visitor is at liberty to explore the area in terms of the various propagations of electricity that it contains. As Kubisch says With special sensitive headphones the acoustic perceptibility of aboveground and underground electrical currents is thereby not INSTALLATIONS ENVIRONMENTS AND SCULPTURES ma suppressed but rather amplified. The palette of these noises their timbre and volume vary from site to site and from country to country. They have one thing in common they are ubiquitous even where one would not expect them. Light systems transformers anti-theft security devices surveillance cameras cell phones computers elevators streetcar cables antennae navigation systems automated teller machines neon advertising electric devices etc. create electrical fields that are as if hidden under cloaks of invisibility but of incredible presence. Images courtesy of Left ZKM Karlsruhe 2005 ZKM Karlsruhe. Right above London 2005 Goethe-Institut London. Far right above Bremen 2005 Brigitte Seinsoth. Right Oxford 2005 Janine Charles. Far right ZKM Karlsruhe 2005 ZKM Karlsruhe. All images Christina Kubisch. REALISATION AND PRESENTATION Performance M TURNTABLISM An extreme form of the work of the DJ turntablism conventionally uses vinyl records as its source material although CDs and even MP3 sound .
