Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art

[seraph]

Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art,
edited by Nicole Gingras, Montréal,
Artextes Editions, 2003. 240 p.

ISBN : 2-9802870-9-1.
The book is accompanied by a CD : ISBN : 2-9805019-4-8.
34.95$-CAN

****************************************************************************

This publication grew out of a research project by Nicole Gingras, a
Montreal-based independent curator, critic, publisher and media arts event
organizer. Her research began in the summer of 2002, as part of a six-month
residency at Artexte Information Centre. Having identified various acoustic
components in visual and media arts in Canada, the author shares her
reflections on this exploratory approach to an art form at the junction of
music, visual and performing arts. Orchestrating key critical essays and
never before published texts by 19 authors on events, exhibitions and
individual practices, this anthology uncovers and examines the presence of
sound and its listening spaces in contemporary Canadian art since the
mid-eighties.

A CD produced by Éditions Nicole Gingras accompanies the book.

Texts by: Diana Burgoyne, Tagny Duff, Jean-Pierre Gauthier,
Raymond Gervais, Nicole Gingras, Colin Griffiths, Steve Heimbecker,
Christof Migone, Gordon Monahan, James Partaik, Hélène Prévost,
Nicolas Reeves, Jocelyn Robert, R. Murray Schafer, Tom Sherman,
Alexandre St-Onge, Michèle Waquant, Hildegard Westerkamp and Gayle
Young.

Sound works and excerpts by:
Pierre-André Arcand, Georges Azzaria, Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Ken Gregory,
Diane Landry, Hugh Le Caine, Emmanuel Madan, Rita McKeough, Bill Mullan,
Daniel Olson, Rober Racine, Jean Routhier, Michael Snow, Martin Tétreault,
Hildegard Westerkamp.

The book can be purchased on the Artextes Editions website:
http://www.artexte.ca/a_edit.htm