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Sunday Feature: Sonic Art Boom - The Art of Noise

Series 1, episode 0

Dan Jones celebrates The Art of Noises manifesto by Luigi Russolo with an exploration of sound art, asking why has it taken so long for it to be appreciated. He joins Bill Fontana as he places a giant loudspeaker in front of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. Dan talks to Janet Cardiff and Bill Fontana about their noisy art, hears Barbara London, the curator of New York's Museum of Modern Art introduce a sound art show entitled Soundings and is invited by his hero in the world of sound sculpture, Stan Shaff, as he opens the doors of Audium, the world's first sound sculpture theatre in San Francisco. Plus critic Richard Cork and composer David Toop discussing a definition of sound art