Leonardo Music Journal 16 (2006)

Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music

These days sound is more than just music. Museums, galleries and artists' studios are getting noisier: it's not that there is so much more "Sound Art," but rather that so much more art has sound. Cellphone ringtones generated four billion dollars in sales worldwide in 2004. Incoming email and outgoing popcorn announce themselves with plops and gongs and boops and beeps -- the emerging field of "sonification" addresses this proliferation of all these "earcons" and other representational uses of sound. Sound design is a vital part of Hollywood films and computer games. While CD sales shrink with the proliferation of peer-to-peer file exchange, the creative use of sound is expanding in almost every other part of our lives.

LMJ16 Issue Contents

Introduction to LMJ16 by Nicolas Collins

LMJ16 Table of Contents

LMJ16 Supplement: UNYAZI

A Special Section guest edited by Jürgen Bräuninger, with abstracts of essays by Theo Herbst, Rodrigo Sigal, Lukas Ligeti, Pauline Oliveros and Matthew Ostrowski. Full texts and sound samples are available online in a special issue of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac website.

LMJ16 includes compact disc:

Interpreting the Soundscape curated by Peter Cusack

Introduction to LMJ16 CD by Peter Cusack
CD Table of Contents, Tracklist and CD Contributors' Notes

The Leonardo Music Journal Series

The LMJ series is devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Currently under the editorship of Nicolas Collins, each thematic issue features artists/writers from around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints. Each volume includes the latest offering from the LMJ CD series---an exciting sampling of curious and unusual, but eminently listenable, music. Independently curated and annotated by experts and aficionados, these CDs offer a feast for the ear and mind alike.

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