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Built from recordings made over a span of 10 years, Audio
Recordings of Great Works of Art is a website that explores the
Aural Aura of Masterworks™ as found in the sounds in the immediate
locations of highly regarded paintings, sculptures, and other artworks.
By making sound recordings at the sites of static artworks, presenting
them with their visual representations, and accompanying them with a
text that considers how sound functions literally and metaphorically
within them, the piece examines by turns museum culture, the acoustic
life of silent objects, and the space left to the ear while the eye
is engaged. In this way new readings can be drawn out of even over-examined
pieces. In regarding visual art with a leading ear Audio
Recordings of Great Works of Art sounds out a rarely navigated,
nearly silent, and always invisible terrain.
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