Sophie Clements's SUGGESTED READING LIST

The suggested reading list includes various reading and media recommendations provided by the visitor. This list of materials can include projects authored by the artist or others, and provides further insight into the visitor’s sources of inspiration and additional context surrounding the artist/scholar/designer’s work and practice. This list is shared with RMCAD students and faculty and is archived on the website for academic integration and research opportunities. Some physical materials from each list are archived in the RMCAD campus library and the VASD Program archive.

Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories by Alan Licht (book)

Ocean Of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop (book)

Soundings: A Contemporary Score (book, MoMA exhibition catalogue)

Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr (book)

New Perspectives in Music by Roger Sutherland (book)

Talking Music by William Duckworth (book)

Noise: Political Economy of Music by Jacques Attali (book)

The Aesthetics of Noise by Torben Sangild (book)

Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage (book)

Roman Signer by Gerhard Mack, Paula Van Den Bosch, and Jeremy Millar (book)

Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film by A.L Rees (book)

You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference by Henry Krokatsis, Jeni Walwin, James Flint (book)

Hyperspace by Michio Kaku (book)

The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty by H.E Huntley (book)

A Landscape of Events by Paul Virilio (book)

Alvin Lucier, I am Sitting in a Room (audio piece)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

Laurie Anderson
Chord for a Room (artwork)
Talking Pillows (artwork) 
Handphone Table (artwork)
Various modified violins

Guy Sherwin
Musical Stairs (film) 
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/musical_stairs.html
Railings (film) 
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/guy_sherwin/railings.html

Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-HWsxPnNNY

Ryoji Ikeda
The Transinfinite (video installation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omDK2Cm2mwo

Test Pattern (video installation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwjlYpJCBgk

Roger Hiorns, Seizure (installation)

Emptyset live shows (concerts)

Gavin Bryars, Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJjqZprGu0

David Lang, Slow Movement (album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhhFwz88Ts0