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[Commlist] New book: Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics

Mon Nov 27 14:20:10 GMT 2023




Vadim Keylin is delighted to announce the publication of my book /*Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics */(Palgrave Macmillan).

Publisher page: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-6357-7

The book addresses a major gap in sound art scholarship: the role of audience participation. It offers a survey of participatory sound art from its origins in the historical avant-gardes to the non-institutionalized forms of sonic creativity in contemporary digital culture. In doing so, it proposes an innovative theoretical framework for analysing such phenomena, rooted in Pragmatist aesthetics, affordance theory and postcritique. Combining artwork analyses with qualitative studies, it focuses on three principal aspects of participatory sound art: the ways the materialities of the artworks facilitate and structure the participatory processes; the interplay of the creative agencies of the artists and the participants; and the postcritical approach to sound art’s politics, unfolding through the participants’ affective gestures. In considering these multiple dimensions, this book contributes to the growing fields of sound studies and participation studies, as well as to curatorial practice regarding sound art and participatory art.

Until December 21, the book can be purchased with a 20% discount using the code 2KbHh90AX1PdNT at checkout.


Endorsements:

"How exactly can listeners participate in sound art? Vadim Keylin explores this issue within contemporary aesthetics through an impressive series of analyses, through fieldwork, conceptual critique as well as through reflections on epistemologies, art history and media history. He proposes to conceptualize participatory sound art through a sonic pragmatism that suggests a stimulating interpretation and application of the notion of affordances in the field of sound studies. With Keylin's approach, works of sound art become consistently recognizable as scenarios for and of encounters."

*―Holger Schulze*, Professor of Musicology, Copenhagen University, Denmark

"It is always good to read how young, promising scholars contribute new insights to the prevailing sound studies discourse. Vadim Keylin’s Participatory Sound Art opens a field, a niche, within sound studies that so far hasn’t been explored systematically, namely the relationship between sound art and participatory art, thereby emphasizing sound art as a participatory art. Reflecting on many interesting sound artworks and bringing them into contact with theories grounded in pragmatism, Keylin has managed to enrich the already impressive theories on sound art with new concepts, new perceptions, and new approaches."

*―Marcel Cobussen*, Professor of Auditory Culture, Leiden University, The Netherlands


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