"Identity & Location: Walls of Sound"
von William Furlong
duration: 36 minutes 12
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"Audio art is important as a way of transmitting a different consciousness, of a feel for art in space or a feel for space as a receptacle...; Audio art uses more than just visual perception. Sound is transferred to the space itself." (K. Blakker)
William Furlong, publisher of Audio-Arts-Magazine since 1973, presents our listeners with a radio piece the basis of which are actual sound recordings. The central topic of the work is the question of identity, of location, with which this is associated. Sound elements which stimulate visually perceptible associations in the listeners give an indication of what identity is attached to and where its limits are: it is language, humor and the environment.
Identity & Location: Walls of Sound was the part of an audio art exhibition which was transferred to Austria. William Furlong presented and managed the other parts of the exhibition parallel with this in London.
