Folkestone Triennial Fringe Talk Series - British Sound and Performance Art, August-October 2025
Sound art revisited, part of the Folkestone Triennial Fringe - "What is sound art and how does it intersect other forms such as music, beyond the field of art?" Strangelove hosts a talk, at Kollectiv on the high street.
While writing on sound art within academia is prolific, for this event we turn to music writing for a wider perspective. Author and musician Alan Licht argued in 2019 that sound art and experimental music are two completely different practices and yet they are commonly defined as one. Licht defines experimental music as intending to break the rules of music but still having the philosophy of music. Sound arts however, follow the philosophy of visual art, and is intended to work the same way as a painting or a sculpture does, beyond time and exposed in different mediums.
Experimental music is still fixedly linear in time and meter, has a beginning and an end, moving from left to right. Sound arts on the other hand stand perpetually in their environment; the duration decided by the audience experiencing it as they move through a space. But perhaps this is now a delineation that is dissolving?
Broadcaster and artist Fari Bradley speaks with vocal artist and composer Randolph J Matthews, improvising musicians Pleistocene Megafauna and installation artist Ruth Canning this Friday 29th August, on the topic as relates to their practices. 5-6pm followed by a live performance from Pleistocene Megafauna later in the evening.
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