7/30/2023 0 Comments Ephemeral art definition![]() ![]() Sound is surely the most notable among these materials, as well as the most ephemeral one. They began to adopt any imaginable material and non-material as a means for expression, and put it to use around, in, up, under and at any imaginable place. Meanwhile visual artists continued to free themselves from the laws, traditions, conventions, materials and techniques that for many centuries had defined art within the boundaries of a number of specialized crafts. Due to the explosive combination of technological developments, that enabled both the capturing ( recording) and (re-)creation ( synthesis) of whatever sound one could imagine, and the profound socio-cultural changes in the West in the decades following the Second World War, the idea that potentially any sound is a musical sound took firm hold on the music side. It is also over the past century that, hesitatingly at first, but eventually with near to brute force, the use of sound as a means for artistic expression and creation, broke loose from the confines imposed by the traditional collection of tools used to generate and control it (the ‘musical instruments’). And sound, in a very literal sense, moves us. All that sounds, moves all that moves, sounds. In order for sound to be, some thing has to move. Among the panoply of universal, concrete and abstract, waves and strings and things that, according to current understandings, concordate and discordate in composing our world’s myriad dimensions, it stands out because of its fundamentally material origin. Sound, of course, we have always known to be vibrational in nature. However, it is actually not so much Art that is unattainable, but rather the dialectic – some would say the rubicon – of Art… »Īrguably the most radical of paradigm shifts in our view of the world over the past century, has been the insight that the universe – from the very small to the very large – can, in an uncannily effective way, be understood as a compound of waves, as a conglomerate of various vibrations. ![]()
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