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Seeing sound : sound art, performance and music, 1978-2011 : Gordon Monahan

Title: Seeing sound : sound art, performance and music, 1978-2011 : Gordon Monahan / editors Linda Jansma, Carsten Seiffarth.
Author: Monahan, Gordon.
Publication: Scarborough : Doris McCarthy Gallery, c2011.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	*LDV 1505	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JMF 12-41	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Description

ix, 159 p. : ill. (some col.), music; 25 cm. +

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Published in tandem with an exhibition held at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ont. Feb. 26-May 29, 2011, and travelling to other galleries.
"[Co-published by] Doris McCarthy Gallery/University of Toronto, Scarborough, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery/Osawa ; Blackwood Gallery/University of Toronto, Mississauga ; Thames Art Gallery/Chatham ; Owens Art Gallery/Mount Allison University, Sackville ; Kenderdine Art Gallery/University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon ; Singuhr-Hoergalerie Berlin ; Tom Thomson Art Gallery/Owen Sound."
Parallel text in English, French, and German.
Accompanying DVD includes video documentations of selected works of Gordon Monahan
Includes artist's interview.

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Contents

Foreword / Carsten Seiffarth & Linda Jansma -- Matthias Osterwold and Gordon Monahan : a conversation -- Gordon Monohan--record, replay, reveal / Earl Miller -- Puzzles of nature and technology : Gordon Moahan's water music / Gabriele Knapstein -- Compositions & performances -- Installations -- Special projects and collaborations -- Bibliography.
Contents of accompanying DVD: Speaker swinging (1982/1987) (7:17) -- A magnet that speaks also attracts (1986) (7:38) -- Long aeolian piano (1986) (6:49) -- Aquaeolian whirlpool (1990) (4:56) -- Aquaeolian music room (1991) (4:21) -- Sounds and the machines that make them (1994) (4:26) -- Spontaneously harmonious in certain kinds of weather (1996) (2:27) -- When it rains (2000) (3:45) -- New and used furniture music (2003/2005) (9:33) -- Aeolian winds over Claybank, Saskatchewan (2007) (10:36) -- Theremin pendulum (2008) (2:24) -- Syncopated precipitation (2009) (2:14) -- Space bedomes the instrument (2009) (6:46) -- Sauerkraut synthesizer (2010) (7:46)

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JMF 12-41

ISBN

OCLC

701015968

Author

Monahan, Gordon.

Title

Seeing sound : sound art, performance and music, 1978-2011 : Gordon Monahan / editors Linda Jansma, Carsten Seiffarth.

Imprint

Scarborough : Doris McCarthy Gallery, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Jansma, Linda, 1962- Editor

Seiffarth, Carsten, 1963- Editor

MacLaren Art Centre.

Research Call Number

JMF 12-41 [Text]

*LDV 1505 [DVD]