Luke Fowler is charting a grammar for listening:
Luke Fowler creates field recordings to posit questions on how to develop new dialogues between looking and listening. The artist responds to pivotal moments in the history of Western culture’s aim to classify noise, music and everyday sounds: John Cage’s 1953 composition 4’33’’, silence used in experimental films of the 1960s, and Peter Schaeffer’s ‘found sounds’ and the concept of ‘acousmatic’ (reduced listening) where sounds were stripped of instrumental and cultural contexts in order to develop a language of intonation.
At the Modern Institute.
