PUBLICATIONS
- 2024
- ‘Die vierte Dimension: Über die Beziehung von Klangkunst und Architektur’ in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 2-2024, pp.22-25.
- ‘Beyond Reach. A Sonic Approximation’ / ,Außer Reichweite. Eine Klangliche Annäherung‘ (in English. & German) in Esmeralda Conde Ruiz – 24/7. Big Data. Dresden: Sandstein Publisher, 2024, pp.18 – 25.
- 2023
- in progress ‘Relational Sound – attempting an inventory.
Tendencies in Sound Art since the turn of the millennium.’
in Sound Arts between Electroacoustic Music and Media Art, ed. Michael Harenberg,
transcript Publ., Summer 2023
- 2022
- Edition of Sound Art Brighton Festival Catalogue | Edition 1, March 2022.
November Book, London, 2022, 77 pp. - ‘… the sound around us’ in Sound Art Brighton Festival Catalogue, ed. K.Glandien,
November Book, London, 2022, pp. 10-11.
- 2018
- ‘Interaction in SoundArt’. Essay (publication pending).
- 2016
- ‘Nexus’, Exhibition text. Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, 10 Sept-12 Nov.
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- ‘Analysing Sound Art: Douglas Henderson’s Fadensonnen (2009)’ in Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis. eds. S. Emmerson & L. Landy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 266-287.
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- 2015
- ‘Douglas Henderson: Summer of Love’. Exhibition text. Galerie Mario Mazzoli,
Berlin, 24 Oct-5 Dec.
Image - ‘… too wide a field. SoundArt in Berlin’, Seismograf/DMT. Contemporary art music magazine Denmark. 5 May 2015. http://seismograf.org/node/6877
- 2013
- Relational Sound: On the Aesthetics of SoundArt (book project in progress)
- ‘Kunst i og uden for æteren’, Seismograf/DMT. Contemporary art music magazine Denmark. http://seismograf.org/artikel/kunst-i-og-uden-for-aeteren
- ‘Sound Art/Installation. Analysis: Douglas Henderson – Fadensonnen (Sound Sculpture, 2009)’, in Expanding the Horizon of Electroacoustic Music Analysis, S. Emmerson & L. Landy (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (publication in progress)
- ‘Cassiber Recalled’, in Cassiber 1982-1992. CD-box set & book, ReR Megacorp, London
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- ‘…sound’s dream of us. The SoundArt of Douglas Henderson’, in Douglas Henderson – Poets and Superheroes, Catalogue for Douglas Henderson SoundArt Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, March-April 2012.
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- 2013 | 2008
- ‘… the farthest extension of life as theatre: on the work of Arndt von Diepenbroick’, Licht, Luft, Leben: die phantastische Papierwelt des Arndt von Diepenbroick. Meininger Museen, Meiningen.
- 2012
- ‘Malte Lüders/ Lutz Glandien: Sound Installations – Sound Architecture’. Elsenstudio Publications, Berlin, German to English.
- ‘SoundArt and Performativity (pre-print version)’, in Sound Musicianship: Understanding the Crafts of Music, A. Brown (ed.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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- ‘Sounds & Contexts: The Performative SoundArt of Jon Rose’, in Rosin, Jon Rose CD/DVD-box set, ReR Megacorp, London.
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- ‘Radiokonst i och utanför etern – samtid och framtid’. Swedish Translation by Magnus Bunnskog, Nutida Musik ISCM Sweden, 2/2011, 16-21.
- 2009
- ‘Don’t look back’, in MORPHICA, M Karikis (ed.), Sub Rosa. Brussels.
- ‘Art on and off Air. Post Scriptum 2007: Mostly Europe’ (unpublished)
- 2005
- ‘Die Kuh singt – oder – Die Liebe zum Authentischen’, in Babylon Circus, H. Jahn (ed.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg.
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- 2004 | 2000
- En Route – A monographic Study of the Œuvre of Heiner Goebbels. [online]
Available from: http://www.heinergoebbels.com/index2.htm
See for Alfred 23 Harth’s recollection of his collaboration with Heiner Goebbels
- 2004
- ’Die Musiktheaterkonzeption Heiner Goebbels‘ – Schwarz auf Weiss und Surrogate Cities’, in Handbuch Experimentelles Musik- und Tanztheater, Vol.7., F. Reininghaus & K. Schneider (eds.), Laaber, Laaber.
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- 2003
- Anthologie Heiner Goebbels’, Review of Heiner Goebbels – Komposition als Inszenierung. ed W. Sandner, Positionen 55, Mai 03, p. 55.
- 2002
- Malte Lüders/ Lutz Glandien: Sound Installations – Sound Architecture. Elsenstudio Publications, Berlin.
- 1998
- ‘Gegen den Strich: Eisler, wiederentdeckt’, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, no. 6, pp. 18-22.
- ‘Against the Grain – Eisler re-discovered’, in Hanns Eisler – ‘s müßt dem Himmel Höllenangst werden. Archive zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bd.3, M Köster (ed.),Stiftung Archive der Akademie der Künste, Wolke, Hofheim.
- 1997
- ‘Music Machines – Spirits raised by us’, in Catalogue AngelicA Music Festival, K. Glandien (ed.), CIMES – Università di Bologna & Pierrot Lunaire, Bologna.
- Angelica – 7o edizione, Catalogue, CIMES – Università di Bologna & Pierrot Lunaire, Bologna
- ‘Decentral Station: Interview with Heiner Goebbels’, Resonance. Vol 6 (1), pp. 15-17.
- ‘A wide field: Jamming in London’, Jazz Live.
- 1996
- ‘Technology Effects in New Music’, for Positionen (unpublished).
- ‘Sonambiente’ – Sound Art Festival, Berlin, Summer ’96’, Resonance. Vol 5 (1), pp. 48-51. Reprint 1997 in Noise Gate.
- 1995
- Re-working of the German edition of File Under Popular by Chris Cutler, Michael Schwinn Music Publishing
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- 1995
- ‘Too long ignored – too bad’ (Review), RéR Unfiled Magazine 0402, pp. 76-77. Reprint 1995, in Resonance. Vol 4 (1), pp. 45/47.
- ‘Art Bridge between London-Southwark and Berlin-Prenzlauerberg. Report on a Regional Project’, in German Monitor: Prenzlauer Berg – Bohemia in East Berlin?, Ph. Brady & I. Wallace (eds.), Rodopi, Amsterdam – Atlanta, GA.
- 1994
- ‘The Technology Effect or The World of Differences. Aesthetic Reflections on the Influence of New Technology on Music’, GI Prisma, no. 2, pp. 66-69.
- ‘Improvisation Strategies. Genre-mix on the 3. Festival of Experimental Music London’, Jazzthetik, no. 9, pp. 8-10.
- 1992
- ‘…like a Phoenix from the Ashes… The London Musician’s Collective in Upheaval’,
Jazzthetik, no. 9, pp. 24-27. - Reviews for Radical Philosophy.
- 1990
- ‘The Philosophical Concept of Appropriation in Aesthetics and Literary Theory’,
for On the Function of Appropriation in Art, P. H. Feist, K. Faustmann & M. Franz (eds.)
Akademie-Verlag, Berlin. (unpublished)
- 1989
- ‘Methodological Problems of Analyzing the Conditions of Artistic Work. Reflections on Beatrix Borchard’s Book: Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Conditions of Artistic Work in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century’ (Review), Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, no. 1, pp.69-70.
- Editing and translation of File Under Popular by Chris Cutler, Edition Peters, Leipzig. English to German (unpublished).
- 1988
- ‘Music and Politics. Music-conceptual Problems of the West European Rock Avant-garde’, Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, no. 4, pp. 273-284.
- ‘The Movement of Song Theatre in the GDR’, for The History of Music in the GDR 1970-88, K Niemann (ed.), Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin. (unpublished)
- 1986
- ‘Aesthetic Design of the Environment. Reflections on H.Letsch’s Book: Pleading for a Beautiful Environment’ (Review), Weimarer Beiträge, pp. 1219-1222.
- 1984
- ‘On the Relationship between Work-activity and Individual Development’ (unpublished).
PRESENTATIONS
- 2026
- Spook Places – Sound From Elsewhere | Paper
Symposium: Translocal Spaces Between Listening, Ecology and Sound Art
Hochschule der Künste Bern | Institut Interpretation, 10–12 Sep.
hkb-interpretation.ch/translocal-sounds
- 2024
- The 4th Dimension – Sound Art’s Relation to Architecture. Talk at Underflow, Athens,
13. April - Relational Sound – An Introduction into Sound Art. Talk at Stress Studio, Athens, 16. April
- But that’s not music. Talk at symposium: Music Defined: A Provocation, Alice Springs, supported by Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, part of Dr Hollis Taylor’s “The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music” ARC Future Fellowship. Australia. 12. October
- 2023
- Sound works by Sound Art artists – Presentation at Sound Art Brighton Listen Club #6, at The Rose Hill, Brighton, 10. October
- ‘The 4th Dimension: Sound Art’s Relation to Architecture’
Talk at the annual conference of the AG Auditive Media Cultures of the Society for Media Studies on the Topic ‘Sonic Architectures’. Bern University of Arts, 7.– 9. September 2023, 8 Sept. Publication in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in 2024.
Institut Interpretation article
Auditive Medienkulturen
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- 2022
- ‘Relational Sound – attempting an inventory’ (Tendencies in Sound Art since the turn of the millennium), Talk at the International Symposium: Sound Arts between electroacoustic music and media art, Bern University of Arts, 15.–17. September 2022. 16. Sept. (publication in progress)
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- 2022
- ‘Nexus Art: SOUND – a conference-event proposal (Summer 2023)’
at the Creative Sound & Music REG Discussion and Workshop University of Brighton
Research Knowledge & Exchange Week, 14 Nov.
- 2020
- ‘Building with Sound – Sound Architecture in Open Space’, Online-Talk at The Space in Sound, The Lighthouse, Brighton. 18 Sept.
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- 2019
- ‘The Confluence of Sound and Art’, Talk at Studio 4431, St Petersburg, Russia, 28 June.
- ‘In Focus’, Exhibition Talk, Nottingham, 4 Oct.
- 2018
- ‘SoundArt as Hybrid Practice’, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, 6 Nov.
- ‘Interaction with Sound’, Westminster Kingsway College, London, 19 Oct.
- 2016
- ‘NonSense – Revolt of the Mind’, Talk at Non Plus Ultra: Spawn of Dada 100 Years on, Café OTO, London, 5 Feb.
- ‘Close Encounters: Perceptions of SoundArt”, Talk at The Courtauld Institute of Art,
London, 14 June.
- 2015
- ‘Ausgedehnt & Eingebettet: Raumerleben in der Klangkunst’ (Extended & Embedded: Spatial Experience in SoundArt), Key Note, International SoundArt Symposium: Space Through Sound, Bern, Switzerland, 26-28 Mar.
- 2014
- ‘SoundArt Berlin’, Paper at Fort Process. Music & SoundArt Festival, Newhaven, 13 Sept.
- ‘Sombre As Formas Da Arte Sonora’. Talk at 1st Biennale George Lima Baretto,
Vinhais, Portugal. 5. July. - ‘… too wide a field. SoundArt in Berlin’, Paper at the symposium Modernisme,
politik og det steds-specifikke, Klang – Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival, 3 June.
- 2013
- ‘Wireless – The Spaces of RadioArt’. Keynote Paper, Radio Art Seminar, LAKE Nordic Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen, 26-29 Sept.
- ‘Dynamic Spaces – Reflections on the space|sound works of Sabine Schäfer in the area of tension between SoundArt and Music’ and ‘Radio Spaces – Reflections on radiophonic works of Sabine Schäfer in the area of tension between virtual and real space’, two papers at the Topophonies Event – 20 years of Space|Sound|Art by Sabine Schäfer; ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 27 Oct.
- 2011
- ‘Over to you! Performing SoundArt’. Keynote Paper, Performativity Symposium on occasion of Peter Vogel Solo-Exhibition, University of Brighton, 14 Oct.
- 2010
- ‘Art On & Off Air: Radio’s Affinity with Sound Art & Future Prospects’. Paper, RadioArt Seminar: Radio: Past, Present and Future. Audiorama & EMS Stockholm. 8 Oct.
- ‘Radio as Dramatic Stage and Performance Instrument’, Cut & Splice: Transmission, festival launch event, panel discussion, organised by Sound and Music, London, broadcast on BBC3 Hear and Now, 3 Nov.
- ‘Art as Experience’. From book project: ‘Relational Sound: On the Aesthetics of SoundArt’. Richmond – The American International University in London. Faculty Research Seminar. 10 Sept.
- ‘The Future of Radio Art in Public Radio’. Discussion paper for the plenary meeting of the Ars Acoustica group of the European Broadcasting Union, Hvar. 16-17 May.
- 2009
- ‘Radio & SoundArt: Ties & Convolutions’. Keynote Paper, RadioArt Symposium: Reinventing The Dial: Explorations In Experimental Radio Practive. At Canterbury Christ Church University. 27 Oct.
- ‘Dukatenscheißer – The Work of Douglas Henderson’. Introductory speech at the opening of Douglas Henderson SoundArt Solo-Exhibition, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, 4 Sept.
- 2008
- ‘Noise in Sound Art’. Keynote Paper, Noise Symposium, De Montfort University, Leicester. 29 Oct.
- 2005
- ‘Different Ways: the Aesthetics of Heiner Goebbels’, The School of Sound Symposium, London. 31 Mar.
- 2003
- ‘Sound Discourse: Sound & Space’, Universidad National Autónoma de México in Mexico City, Oct.‘
- Sound in Context: The Sonic Aspect of Sound Art’, International Vernacular Congress of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico, Oct.
- 2001
- ‘Sound Art Discourse in England’. Plenary Meeting of the Ars Acoustica group of the European Broadcasting Union, at the BBC, London, 13 Dec.
- ‘SoundArt in Context’, The School of Sound Symposium, Glasgow, 7 Apr.
- 1998
- ‘AudioArt as RadioArt – Legacy of an Old Medium’, RadioArt Symposium, Goethe-Institut, London, 31 Oct.
- 1991
- ‘Aesthetics in the German Democratic Republic’, Annual Conference of the British Society of Aesthetics, London, Sept.
- 1989
- ‘The Concept of Aesthetic Culture in German Socio-Aesthetics at the End of the Nineteenth and First Third of the Twentieth Centuries, and its Understanding Today’, Conference of Aesthetics in East European Countries, Academy of Science of the USSR, Moscow. Spring.
- 1985
- ‘The Socio-Psychology of A.N.Leont’ev and its Relevance for the Analysis of Musical Practice’, Leont’ev Colloquium, Institute of Aesthetic and Art Theories, Berlin.
- ‘The Socio-Historical School of Soviet Psychology and the Socio-psychological Problems of Aesthetics – between 1920 and the Present Day’, Academy of Science, Berlin.
- ‘On Analysis in Aesthetics and Art Theory’, Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theories, Berlin.
EDUCATION
- 2003 – 2023
- I ended my Senior Lecturer position at the the University of Brighton, joining hundreds of my fellow academics in a collective exodus, after 20 years in the Digital Music & Sound Art programme, where I had established Britain’s first SoundArt course, as well as lecturing and supervising BA, MA and PhD students. I retain an Honorary Fellowship. 21 Sept.
- Co-founded the Digital Music & Sound Art course at the University of Brighton (the first
SoundArt course in Britain). Lectures and supervises BA, MA and PhD students. -
This film presents a selection of SoundArt works created by the BA students at the
Digital Music & Sound Arts course of the University of Brighton 2003 – 2019.
- 2023
- Nexus Art: SOUND. (curation & organisation)
a one-day conference/event with artists and academics, sounding out the possibilities of hybrid art education and celebrating the omnipresence of sound in contemporary arts. In collaboration with Sound Art Brighton, Creative Sound and Music, Brighton CCA, The Rose Hill.
At School of Art & Media, Brighton Grand Parade, 15 June.
On April 4 all university research funding was retrospectively withdrawn and the event had to be cancelled.
- I assumed a Senior Lecturer position at the then Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton, to build up a sound Batchelor and Master Degree programme with focus on Sound Art (the first one in the UK) and Sound for the Moving Image > Digital Music & Sound Arts
- 2022
- ‘Nexus Art: SOUND – a conference-event proposal (Summer 2023)’
Talk at the Creative Sound & Music REG Discussion and Workshop University of Brighton Research Knowledge & Exchange Week, 14 Nov 2022.
- 2019
- Launch of the Digital Music & Sound Arts Master Degree, University of Brighton. Sept 2019.
- 2005-2007
- SOUND EXCHANGE (curation & organisation)
A annual cross-disciplinary symposium at which academics working with sound/music from various art disciplines in the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the University of Brighton would present and discuss their work.
- 2004-2015
- SOUND TALKS (curation & organisation)
A series of talks by prominent national and international Sound Art artists, composers and sound practitioners, including Kristina Andersen (STEIM), Knut Aufermann, Baconhead (Paul Bowyer & Ben Hudson), Isobell Clouter, Peter Cusack, Chris Cutler, Marc Derveaux, Max Eastley, Lutz Glandien, Heiner Goebbels, Stuart Jones, Brandon LaBelle, Ray Lee, Bernhard Leitner, Liminal (David Prior), Mats Lindström, Christian Marclay, Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt), Jon Rose, Larry Sider, John Wynne, Adinda van’t Klooster and Sarah Washington.
- 1993 – 2019
- Adjunct Associate Professor at Richmond – The American International University in London: Postmodernism, Contemporary Visual Culture, Experimental Music and Media Art.
- 1982-89
- Research Fellow, Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theories, Academy of Science, Berlin.
- 1985
- PhD in Aesthetics, Technical University Dresden, Germany, 1985.
PhD Thesis: ‘The Interdependence of Aesthetic Relationships and Human Activity. A Philosophic-methodological Study of the Understanding of Aesthetics from a Historic-materialistic Perspective’.
- 1977-82
- Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy and Cultural Theory, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
- 1977
- MA graduated with summa cum laude.
MA Dissertation: ‘Aesthetic Thinking of Bertolt Brecht, Drawn from his Dramatic Oeuvre’.
- 1972-77
- Graduate and Postgraduate Studies in Aesthetics, Philosophy and Art History, University St. Petersburg, Russia.
GUEST LECTURING
- ‘SoundArt as Hybrid Practice’, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, 6 Nov 2018.
‘Interaction with Sound’, Westminster Kingsway College, London, 19 Oct 2018.
Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland (Spring Semester 2015).
Linköping University, Sweden (2010).
London College of Printing/ London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
(2010, 2003, 2001, 2000).Goldsmiths College, University of London (2005, 2001, 1996).
University of Glasgow (2002).
Academy of Media, Cologne (2002).
Royal College of Art, London (2002, 2001, 1992-1995).
University of Brighton (2001).
Middlesex University (2000).
University of Leeds (1998).
Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany (1998).
Kant Academy, Berlin (1994).
Victoria & Albert Museum, London (1993)
SUPERVISION | EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
- 2021-2025
- PhD Supervision in Sound Art, Olivia Louvel, School of Art & Media, University of
Brighton
- 2019
- Sound Art Course Evaluation, Bern University of the Arts [HKB], Switzerland Bern, 4 | 5 Nov.
- 2018
- Mentoring Argentinian SoundArt artist Iliana Diaz Lopez, as part of the Landing Project
organised by Cascabel London, June. - External Examination, PhD thesis Christopher Williams, ‘Writing with Sound: Creative Praxis in
Radiophonic Art’. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Dec ’17- Jan ‘18.
- 2017
- External Assessor for DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service], Berlin, Apr.
- 2014
- External Examiner for PhD thesis by Mike Blow, Theremino device.
Oxford Brooks.
- 2010
- External Examination, PhD thesis by Angie Atmadjaja, Music Department, University of York, Sept.
- 2010
- External Examination, PhD thesis by Robin McGinley, ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier:
Explorations in Experimental Sound Art, Soundscape Research and Interactive Systems’,
De Montfort University.
- 2004
- Supervision, MPhil thesis by Richard Wolfson, ‘Live Film Music Event’, Royal College of
Art, London. - External Examiner, PhD thesis by Renate Dohmen, ‘Writing Perceptions: Surfacing
beyond the Pale. Art, Decoration and the ‘Other’’, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
RESEARCH
- ONGOING
- Relational Sound: On the Aesthetics of SoundArt.
- Contemporary Visual Culture
- Art & New Media
- 2001-04
- Sound Art Discourse.
- 1997-99
- Radio Art
- 1996-2000
- Aesthetic Culture: Media theoretical Reflections on the Aesthetic Dimensions of Contemporary Culture.
- 1994-96
- Technology Effects in New Music.
- 1994
- Berlin’s Architecture in Change: Search for a New Identity.
- 1993
- The Concepts of Modernism and Post-Modernism in Philosophy, Art and Culture’.
- The Oxford Science Park.
- 1992
- Complexity in Postmodern Music.
- 1988-89
- The Concept of Aesthetic Culture from the End of the Last Century to the 1980’s.
- 1986-87
- On Rock Avant-garde in West European Countries in the 1970’s and 80’s.
- 1986
- Song Movement in East Germany.
- 1985
- The Philosophical Concept of Appropriation in Aesthetics and Literary Theory.