University of Maryland
Baltimore County
Visual Arts Department

Sound Resources
ART 282, 610 and USC Visiting Artists Residency

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Timothy Nohe
Assistant Professor of Visual Art
IMDA Graduate Program Director
Office hours: By Appointment
FA 342, 410-455-2151

nohe@research.umbc.edu


Online Resources:

Laurie Anderson
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Elipsis Arts Matmos 1 | 2 Kurt Schwitters
1
| 2 | 3
Louis Armstrong 1 | 2 EMF Olivier Messiaen 1 Carl Stalling 1 | 2
Louis and Bebe Barron 1 | 2 Brian Eno
1
| 2 | 3 | 4
Mode Records STEIM
Jaap Blonk 1 Juan Garcia Esquivel
1
| 2 | 3
Negativeland 1 | 2 David Toop
George Brecht 1 Morton Feldman
1
| 2
Pauline Oliveros
1
| 2
Tristan Tzara
1 | 2 | 3
David Burliuk Universal Camp of Radio-Modernists Fluxus
1
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Harry Partch
1
| 2 | 3 | 4
Ubu Web
Sound Poetry
William S. Burroughs 1 | 2 | Cut-Up Engine | Philip Glass
1
| 2 | 3
Sun Ra
1
| 2 | 3 | 4
visualmusic.org
John Cage
1
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Brion Gysin
1
| 2 | 3 | 4 |
Cut-Up Method
Steve Reich
1
| 2 | 3
Chris Watson
1 | 2
David Chesworth and Ensemble 1 History of Electronic Music Terry Riley
1
| 2 | 3 | 4
Iannis Xenakis
1
| 2 | 3
John Coltrane
1
| 2 | 3
Italian Futurism
1
| 2 | 3
Il Futurismo
Clara Rockmore
1
| 2 | 3
John Zorn 1 | 2
Tony Conrad
1 | The Flicker
Spike Jones 1 | 2 Luigi Russolo
1
| 2 | 3 | 4
Miles Davis
1
| 2 | 3
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1 | 2 Pierre Schaeffer
1
| 2 | 3

Manifesti:

Italian Futurist Music Manifesti: Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music | The Art of Noise | The Futurist Intonarumori |

Other Manifesti: TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC by Pierre Schaeffer | The Crystallization of Concept Art in 1961 Henry Flynt | Putting the Net Over the Internet by Neil Strauss | Fair Use by Negativland

 

Critical Analysis:

Essays in Sound

Leonardo

Musicworks

SoundCulture

Convergence: Streaming, Low Power FM, Pirates, etc.

art@radio

FCC Policy on Low Power Radio

Pirate/Free Radio - John Anderson

radio fro

surrogate signal

 

Texts:

Cassette Mythos, Dave Mandl (Editor),Neil Strauss (Editor), Autonomedia, 1998

Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Simon Reynolds, Routledge

Modulations: Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sounds, Peter Shapiro, Distributed Art Publishers

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, Douglas Kah, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999

Radiotext, Neil Strauss ed., Dave Mandl ed., Semiotext(e), 1998

Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies, Adalaide Morris, ed., Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, Albert Glinsky, Foreword by Robert Moog, University of Illinois Press

Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, eds., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992

Women Artists of Italian Futurism : Almost Lost to History, Bentivoglio, Mirella/ Zoccoli, Franca, Midmarch Arts Press

 

Discography: (In no particular order)

NPR feature, 9/24/2000 History of Electronic Music, "Weekend Edition Sunday."

OHM: the early gurus of electronic music, elipsis arts

Early Modulations Vintage Volts, CAIPIRINHA Music

Brion Gysin, The Pool K III, alga marghen

The Best of William S. Burroughs from Giorno Poetry Systems, Mouth Almighty/Mercury

Call Me Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, rhino word BEAT

esquivel, space-age bachelor pad music, Esquivel, Bar/None Records

Spiked!, Spike Jones and His Orchestra, Catalyst/BMG

Live at the Knitting Factory Volume 3, Negativeland, A&M Records

Slapping Pythagoras, Tony Conrad, Vanadium

The Garden is Full of Metal, Homage to Derek Jarman, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), sub rosa

Stepping Into the Dark, Chris Watson, Touch

Matmos, Vague Terrain


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