Vocalic Spaces

http://blog.onbeing.org/post/17604082071/ascending-staircases-of-sonoma-light-by-susan

Tower designed by Ann Hamilton and Jenson Architects for the purpose of creating an acoustic space. You can hear how the voice and musical instruments travel through space. The tower becomes an instrument.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ygpc_vito-acconci-seedbed-1972_creation

Without sound we are given no sense of the aesthetic quality of this piece. We see Acconci masturbate – but this ‘watching’ moves away from the intensity of what it would be to listen to this work. The listeners walk on top of Acconci, unaware of exactly where he is located. Acconci cannot ‘see’ his listeners, but responds to the sounds of their footsteps. We cannot hear his voice – its volume, quality, intensity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmm16gqRis&feature=related

Voice filtered through medium of video that produces a highly disturbing, threatening, chaotic space. I think it was Gary Hill that said video is mainly about sound – this example supports that perspective.