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3 unusual facts about Audio Arts


Audio Arts

The project was launched in 1973 by Barry Barker and British sculptor William Furlong, born 1944 in Woking, Great Britain.

Interviewees include: Andy Warhol, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, R. Buckminster Fuller, Hermann Nitsch, Mario Merz, Gerhard Richter, Nam June Paik, as well as an interview with WB Yeats' daughter and readings by Yeats himself (in Vol.1

William Furlong was part of a generation of British artists of the 1960s-70s including Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Bruce McLean or Paul Richards (whose Nice Style performance group was the first pose band) who were consciously moving from traditional art forms to conceptual art, performance, new media, cheap materials, in a dematerialized and process-oriented ethos.



see also

Megapolis

Megapolis Festival, an annual audio arts festival in the United States.

Roksan Xerxes

He became dissatisfied with the state of the audio arts when he heard his little television set reproduce Thelonious Monk in a more musically satisfying way than his hi-fi, and this led him to began experimentation.