Sounds and music in the visual arts

At the moment I am trying to incorporate sounds and music into my fine art practice so I am looking at how other artists have solved the problem. A while ago (to tell the truth I can’t remember if it was one or two weeks ago) I went to a VANSA 20/20 talk. I saw Brendon Bussy was on the speaker line up and knew he worked with music / sounds. I wanted to find out a bit more about him. Well what an interesting guy. He has a wonderful mix of technical ability and creative daring.

What I remember about his presentation was the “drawing machine” exhibition. How many visual artists out there will take time to work out what parts are needed for a simple speaker device? Then go on to create a matrix of sound.

I had to dash off after the talk so didn’t get to talk but I found out he has a blog, Taadaah:

http://brendonbussy.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/rant-no-1-theres-that-pause-and-then-dah-dah-dah-the-other/#comments

He is running a physical sound workshop at VANSA on 4 & 5 March 2010 9.30 to 3.30 www.brendonbussy.co.za