First year. First week. Deep listening. Pauline Oliveros. Oh? A woman?
Second week. Soundwalk. Hildegard Westerkamp. Interesting.
Ohara Hall, Tokyo, 1956
Third week. Toop and Parkinson: Unfinished Business: A Converstaion on Sound Art in the United Kingdom. Daphne Oram, Madeau Stewart, Annea Lockwood, Annabele Nicolson. What’s happening?
Forth week: Ikeshiro and Tanaka: Sound in Japan, Silence, Noise, Material, and Media. Atsuko Tanaka, credited as possibly the earliest sound art work in the world?
How? It is not often that women are mentioned this heavily in any subject history, I believe. It is interesting to notice this in contrast with classical music theory where the majority of names are male. White male.
Is there something inherently feminine about this practice? Doubtable. Maybe it has something to do with sound art being an art form still in its infancy? Maybe because it started at a time when women had already gained a seat at the table? When they started being credited? Is it a feminist endeavour?