Shapes of sounds to come

Australia’s The Age discusses a new sound art display in Melbourne.

Co-curated by Melbourne sound and visual artist Marco Fusinato, as well as Alexie Glass and Emily Cormack of Gertude Contemporary Art Spaces, the installation features 100 works produced by 100 sound artists in the 21st century and bills itself as Melbourne’s first significant survey to engage with sound art’s contemporary directives and explorations in a gallery context.

Alongside Walker sit prominent international artists of the ilk of US improvisational legend John Zorn, Austrian visual and multimedia artist Hermann Nitsch, Japanese noise guitarist Keiji Haino, and avant-garde turntablists Christian Marclay US and Philip Jeck UK . Also in the collection are works from US doom metal ensemble Sunn O, electronic composers such as Ryoji Ikeda Japan and Fennesz Austria , French musique concrete artist Jerome Noetinger, German producer Florian Hecker, Jim O Rourke and Sonic Youth.