Sounding the Gallery

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes. The medium was able to record image and sound at the same time, which allowed composers to visualize their music and artists to sound their images. But as well as creating unprecedented forms of audiovisuality, video work also producedinteractive spaces that questioned conventional habits of music and art consumption. This book explores the first decade of creative video work, focusing on the ways in which video technology was used to dissolve the boundaries between art and music.

Holly Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool.

Introduction 1 Composing with Technology: The Artist-Composer 2 Silent Music and Static Motion: The Audio-Visual History of Video 3 Towards the Spatial: Music, Art and the Audiovisual Environment 4 The Rise of Video Art-Music: 1963-1970 5 Interactivity, Mirrored Spaces and the Closed-Circuit Feed: Performing Video Epilogue: Towards the Twenty First Century Index