For Ming, is an audio composition by Richard Garet created in collaboration with Ming-Yuen S. Ma in response to the publication There is no soundtrack, Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract by Ming-Yuen S. Ma.
In this book the author Ming-Yuen S. Ma referenced various exhibitions focused on sound art, media and the work of many artists working in the field but most specifically with sound. As a way to expand and engage further from the publication Ming-Yuen S. Ma invited some of the artists to establish a method for collaborating and exploring the content of the book, being Richard Garet the first guest and collaborator.
After many e-mail exchanges and a live videoconference Ming and Richard, in mutual agreement, developed an idea based on a system. Richard Garet would read the book and after completion send Ming-Yuen S. Ma, the specific pages that he connected the most with. Then Ming would record himself reading the pages and send the audio files to Richard for him to develop a sound piece from the material. The objective is to premiere the work simultaneously with the presentation of the book, during a live virtual conversation due to the Covid pandemic, and for all audiences.
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Description of There is no soundtrack, Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract from Manchester University Press.
There is no soundtrack is a study of how sound and image produce meaning in contemporary experimental media art by artists ranging from Chantal Akerman to Nam June Paik to Tanya Tagaq. It contextualises these works and artists through key ideas in sound studies: voice, noise, listening, the soundscape and more. The book argues that experimental media art produces radical and new audio-visual relationships challenging the visually dominated discourses in art, media and the human sciences. In addition to directly addressing what Jonathan Sterne calls 'visual hegemony', it also explores the lack of diversity within sound studies by focusing on practitioners from transnational and diverse backgrounds. As such, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary scholarship, building new, more complex and reverberating frameworks to collectively sonify the study of culture.
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released November 1, 2020
Composed from audio recordings made by Ming-Yuen S. Ma reading from "There is no soundtrack, Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract" written by Ming-Yuen S. Ma and published by Manchester University Press.
The album cover is a detail from the book "There is no soundtrack, Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract" written by Ming-Yuen S. Ma and published by Manchester University Press.
Richard Garet is a multimedia artist based in NYC. He holds an MFA from Bard College, NY. Richard Garet's approach to
working with sound focuses on interacting with materials' sonic properties as both source and instrument. Such materials are amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, dysfunctional tape players, circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing among others....more
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