SONORITIES OF SITE
In March 2012 Aphids will launch Sonorities of Site: Aphids, Architecture and New Music 1998–2010, edited by Cynthia Troup, designed by Paul Ducco and Jacob Thompson. This limited edition reflects the visionary collaborative ethos that made possible the founding of Aphids in 1994 as an independent, artist-led organisation. Part catalogue, part chronicle, part re-consideration, the volume examines and prismatically evokes a selection of site-specific performances created by Aphids circa 1998–2010, illustrating the essence of Aphids’ contribution to cross-artform practice in connection with the performance of new music.
Of course architecture is often aligned with music on the basis of mathematics. It’s more unexpected to observe that architecture and music are experienced in embodied time. Both are temporal arts that inevitably—profoundly—shape our experience of the world at large …
David Young
Edited by Cynthia Troup, designed by Paul Ducco and Jacob Thompson, contributors include architect and artist Anna Tweeddale, art historian and designer Bronwyn Stocks, composer Juliana Hodkinson, soprano Deborah Kayser, percussionist Matthias Schack-Arnott, artist Rosemary Joy, Aphids’ founding artistic director David Young, and present Artistic Director Willoh S. Weiland.
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