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Sonic Peripheries: Middling With/In the Event
Dr. Petra Klusmeyer 2019
Doctoral thesis, 296 pages
Keywords: sound studies, artistic research, research-creation, process philosophy, fictioning, anarchive, sounding art, writing

The research explores what and how sound does in certain art practices; it lends an ear to so-called material-discursive events that come into expression as in/determined sonic occurrences. The dissertation has three main objectives. Firstly, it describes sonic art practice as experimental research and makes a case for curating such practices as a form of research; it positions this type of research as a contribution to new forms of knowledge and provides a resource for future research-creations and evaluation practices. Secondly, it brings together philosophy and art to elaborate a genuine manner of working with sonic matter (mattering); it conceptualizes and materializes novel ways of thinking, and creates a case for writing itself as practice and curating/producing art as theory; that is, it seeks to practice what it theorizes and vice versa. Thirdly, it advocates a certain transformation of self that lets us side-step ourselves, intervene and invent possible worlds or future fabulations. Practicing a process-oriented exploration complexifies as it advances; it creates resonances between theory and practice, between audience and sound art, between the written thesis - inclusive of presented artifacts - and the reader. It wants not to reduce but foster awareness of the ongoing complexity of life.

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How is Nature
Petra Klusmeyer 2016, 51 4x2.25” cards, (graphite on paper, analog-digital process) with box, audio (via QR code)

Works on paper, field recordings (sound) developed/ recorded during Catwalk Art Residency.

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Mapping out the Sonic Unconscious
Petra Klusmeyer 2010, 60:00 min

SOUNDART RADIO 102.5 FM University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus

Part of OPEN PROCESS Residency at Dartington Gallery with participation from Ariane Delaunois, David Strang, Joe Scarffe, Sebastian Hau Walker
Radio program: discussion and sound works emerging from the search for the sonic unconscious.

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Permanent Fragments, Episode 1-10
Petra Klusmeyer 2008, 14:00 min

Episode 1 (Decon), 0:14 min
Episode 2 (Gost Rider Song), 1:04 min
Episode 3 (Lakeview Drive), 0:58 min
Episode 4 (Thanks to Ayler), 0:41 min
Episode 5 (Desert), 1:18 min
Episode 6 (Ghost Rider B-Movie), 1:27 min
Episode 7 (Dreamtrip), 1:01 min
Episode 8 (Sigh), 0:52 min
Episode 9 (Ghost Rider Trip), 3:18 min
Episode 10 (Raindance), 2:50 min

[Positionsbestimmungen an der Peripherie: Methodik des Scheiterns PDF]

 


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Lichtwelten
Video 2006, 4:30 min

Lichton
2006, 4:16 min

Video: Kim Collmer
Sound and Composition: Petra Klusmeyer

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Wie der Wind die Zeit vergaß
Video 2004,
3:14 min (loop)

Film: Rebekka Brunke
Sound and Composition: Petra Klusmeyer


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01 Oil and Water (Olivia Block), 19:57 min
02 Pandora’s Box, 19:57 min
BOXCD014 (Boxmedia) 2001

Pandora’s Box excerpt 1, 3:26 min
Pandora’s Box excerpt 2, 4:10 min

O_P, 21:57 min
O_P excerpt, 7:34 min

Collaboration with Chicago composer Olivia Block: source material was exchanged, reprocessed and finally remixed into two distinct sound compositions

[Risse im System, taz Bremen 29.7.2004 PDF]

O_P is a remix of the sound material used for Pandora's Box and Oil and Water

 






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DUPLIKAT 00, 2000

Karnevalsmaske, 7:38 min
Zauberfaden, 3:33 min
Prozedur, 4:43 min
Kontakt, 6:00 min
Strata, 6:22
min
ID, 2:12 min
Gegenwart, 1:28 min

Edition of 16 CDs

 


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v/a-Microwave - A MANUAL (Various Artists) Boxmedia 1999

BwO (Body w/out Organs), 4:07 min

[Review Vital Week 208 PDF]

 






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PRE_NEXT_POP
Microwave M013 1999

ti04, 1:39 min
ti05, 3:02 min
ti06, 1:18 min
ton1, 8:02 min

plateau, 7:58 min
ton2, 2:18 min
epilogue, 3:50 min
post pop, 2:15 min
monday night, 2:34 min
danny boy, 3:23 min

[Review Vital Week 225 PDF]

 


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MASTER THESIS TRILOGY
Petra Kusmeyer 1999

Akousma (or 11.000 Virigins), 8:23 min
Chronotope (Time-Image), 8:25 min
Chroma (Lichtzwang), 8:01 min