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Zusatztext this study of the rise of art-music is both comprehensive and immensely readable ... Rogers knows the field inside and out, and she writes in an accessible style that makes her book attractive as a course text. Authoritative, concise, and extremely well thought out, this is the key book on this subject at this time. Informationen zum Autor Holly Rogers is Lecturer in Music at the University of Liverpool. She has published on a variety of audiovisual topics including music and experimental cinema, visual music and composer biopics. Sounding the Gallery argues that early video art is an audiovisual genre. The new video technology not only enabled artists to sound their visual work and composers to visualise their music during the 1960s: it also initiated a spatial form of engagement that encouraged new relationships between art / music practices and their audiences. Zusammenfassung Sounding the Gallery argues that early video art is an audiovisual genre. The new video technology not only enabled artists to sound their visual work and composers to visualise their music during the 1960s: it also initiated a spatial form of engagement that encouraged new relationships between art / music practices and their audiences. 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 ...