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‘from a musical point of view, the world is musical at any given moment’: an interview with bill fontana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2005

jøran rudi
jøran rudi
Affiliation:
norwegian network for technology, acoustics and music (notam), nedre gate 5, 0551 oslo, norway e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

bill fontana is an american composer and artist who has been working with large-scale sound installations since the 1970s. in his installations he recontextualises sounds by transmitting them from one location to another, and uses the transported sounds as acoustical ‘overlay’, masking the sounds naturally occurring in the installation spaces. his installations often occur in central urban environments, and he has, for example, been commissioned in conjunction with the fifty-year anniversary of d-day (1994, paris), and the 100-year anniversary of brooklyn bridge (1983, new york city).

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 97 - 101
Copyright
cambridge university press 2005

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Bill Fontana – Landscape Sculpture with Fog Horns, 3'04"
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