Audio Art
Golo Föllmer

The three basic media techniques of transmission, storage and synthesis have helped to define artistic strategies dealing with sounds which go beyond the traditional notion of music and ask for a new terminology. While the term «sound art» has established itself for the general, non-media-specific expression of this phenomenon, in the present context «audio art» stands for sound art for whose production technical media are either essential or necessary.Intermedia connections, space as a musical determinant, media-specific forms of narration, detemporalization, virtualization and dehierarchization will be discussed by way of example in the present text. [more]

Transmission Participation Aesthetization Radio art Storage Musique concrète Sound Principles of chance Musique d'ameublement Sound installation and ambient music Synthesis Sound composition Score synthesis Intermedia Space Media narration Detemporalization Virtualization Dehierarchization Audio Art as a phenomenon of the modern age