Artist #6 M. W. Burns

Artist #6 M. W. Burns Sound Art

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Sound in Context (Full Film) from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

 why:  Although this artists website does not have resent work I am curious about sound and incorporating that into what I could be doing with my work. I am exploring sound and the effects words or sound has on individuals that may or may not be aware that sound will be incorporated in an instillation. I really enjoyed the 2001 audio clip of the Observer that Burns has on his website. As i continue to explore sound I am sure I will find more current sound artists to talk about. 

Artist Biography From artists website: M.W. Burns is a Chicago-based audio artist using sound to conceptually activate space. Many of his recent installations rely on tactics of public address, projecting the voice into existing urban conditions. Other projects integrate pre-recorded sound into an environment, instigating the perception of events taking place. Burns has had solo exhibitions at the TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago; Northern Illinois University Art Museum; Tough, Chicago andthe Lab, San Francisco. His sound installations have been included in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Sound/Video/Film, the Donald Young Gallery; Contextual: Art and Text in Chicago, at the Chicago Cultural Center; Time Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Body at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; and Takeover at the Hyde Park Art Center. Other projects include Sound Canopy, a public sound system supporting audio work created to participate in the urban environment.

Quote 1- " Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists.

Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art is interdisciplinary in nature, or takes on hybrid forms. Sound art often engages with the subjects of acoustics, psychoacoustics, electronics, noise music, audio mediaand technology (both analog and digital), found or environmental sound, explorations of the human body, sculpture, film or video and an ever-expanding set of subjects that are part of the current discourse of contemporary art.^[1]" 

^{Citation from Wikipedia:} 

^{Attali, Jacques. 1985. Noise: The Political Economy of Music, translated by Brian Massumi, foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterword by Susan McClary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-1286-2 (cloth) ISBN 0-8166-1287-0 (pbk.)}

^{Citation for wikipedia:} 

Gann, By Kyle. "Sound Art." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 11 Oct. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art#cite_note-0>.


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Since sound simultaneously occupies physical and psychological space,  I think of sound installation as injecting something into the space between the observed and the observer. The work is something understood as present and something that includes you. " M. W. BURNS

M. W. Burns SOUND WORK. Web. 11 Oct. 2010. <http://dotminus.net/index.html>.

- a link to an interview with the artist or a review
MoCPhttp://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2001/10/audible_imagery.php


link to gallery representing artist
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link to artist website


http://dotminus.net/index.html






WORK: 


http://dotminus.net/id13.html