Catalog of an exhibition held at the Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy, June 7-Nov. 3, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references.

Art or sound: from the multilingual to the multisensory / Germano Celant -- Marvelous illusions: visual and musical beauty from the Renaissance through the 18th century / Deirdre Loughridge -- Sound, music, time and movement: antique mechanical music machines / Christoph E. Hänggi -- Art or sound: from 1520 to c. 1800 -- On sound-graphs: a coordinated look at sonic artifacts / Patrick Feaster -- The archaic elsewhere of skies: thermodynamics and electricity, pantheism and void / John Tresch -- Seeing is not hearing: synaesthesia, anaesthesia and the audio-visual / Christoph Cox -- Art or sound: from early 19th century to 1911 -- Revelation of hidden noises: improbable musical instruments and sound devices in early 20th-century literature / Douglas Kahn -- A metaphysical orchestra: researching and reconstructing the intonarumori / Luciano Chessa -- So rudely forced: the postwar turn from music to sound / Rob Young -- Art or sound: from 1913 to 1952 -- Silence as a musical sculpture: John Cage and the instruments in 4'33" / Eric de Visscher -- Experimental music and performance: David Tudor, John Cage and Merce Cunningham / Geeta Dayal -- Optical noise: the sound of sculpture in the 1960s / Jo Applin -- Art or sound: from 1958 to 1968 -- The noise of surface: making art audible in the 20th century / Alan Licht -- Sound art? Visual arts and sound at the turn of the 1970s-1980s / Simone Menegoi -- Art or sound: from 1970 to 1992 -- Instruments of non-existence (through which heaven and earth seek reconciliation) / David Toop -- Types and one-of-a-kinds: how musical instruments function socially and aesthetically / Bart Hopkin -- Animating ethnographic objects: everyday and extraordinary musical instruments / Noel Lobley -- Art or sound: from 1994 to 2005 -- Twisted synaesthesia: music video and the visual arts / Holly Rogers -- The importance of unpredictability: unexpected dialogues in sound works / Andrea Lissoni -- The magic in instruments: music technologies and commodity fetishism / Jonathan Sterne -- Art or sound: from 2006 to 2014

Text in English and Italian.

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