Exhibition catalogue for the Nordic Sound Art graduate program show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark in 2012. Featuring Cecilia Jonsson, Lauri Wuolio, Oscar De Carmen, Martinka Bobrikova, Joonas Siren, Signe Lidén, Elin Øyen Vister, and Christian “Flopper” Mastrup.
The book is 70 full-color pages, with essays, interviews with the artists, and photo documentation.
"Usually, only particular circumstances trigger our awareness of the sounds that surround us. To most of us sound functions as a backdrop for visual experience. Sound artists on the other hand shift our attention to the immense possibilities for acoustic variety. The Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates a special occasion, focusing on sound. In April we will present works by the graduating students from the Nordic Sound Art programme a cross-nordic collaboration between several art academies in Scandinavia. We are giving the eight graduates the possibility of showing their final projects in the group exhibition Soundings 2 - Nordic Sound ArtGraduate Show. This will provide the public with a unique insight into the most recent tendencies within the nordic sound art scene.
Sound Art is an ephemeral art form crossing boundaries between different media. Only in the last decades has it established itself as a regular discipline. A lot of sound artists explore the spatio-sonic potentials, working around the divide between the visible and the audible to expand our sensuous capacities. They are pointing at the interdependency between intangible sound and its material source. Other artists create installations that prompt more traditional architectural and acoustic considerations or investigate the way we understand the sounds surrounding us." - Museet For Samtidskunst/Museum Of Contemporary Art
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
