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Caleb Kelly's Gallery Sound challenges the term 'sound art' by turning an ear toward the gallery itself as a site for (and of) sonic investigation. Kelly reminds us that galleries are rich with sound and that a full experiential encounter with artworks demands listening alongside looking. Lucidly written, Gallery Sound considers artworks that treat the sound of the gallery as a fundamental condition, as a container for noise, and as a site where music becomes a medium to be explored and exhibited. Brian Kane, Associate Professor of Music, Yale University, USA

[A] short but wonderfully rich book ... For anyone interested in the often fractious relationship between art institutions and sound, this book is pretty much essential reading. * The Wire * Caleb Kelly's Gallery Sound challenges the term `sound art' by turning an ear toward the gallery itself as a site for (and of) sonic investigation. Kelly reminds us that galleries are rich with sound and that a full experiential encounter with artworks demands listening alongside looking. Lucidly written, Gallery Sound considers artworks that treat the sound of the gallery as a fundamental condition, as a container for noise, and as a site where music becomes a medium to be explored and exhibited. * Brian Kane, Associate Professor of Music, Yale University, USA * Gallery Sound responds to keen growing interest in sound in contemporary art. It inverts focus on sound art by showing how audio has been a latent force in the art gallery for at least half a century, and that the gallery can indeed be musical. Sound for Caleb Kelly is not simply a material or a medium but a phenomenon. The myth of the white cube space parallels the impossibility of silence as Kelly moves with alacrity through John Cage and Janet Cardiff, from Akio Suzuki via Bruce Nauman to Marina Rosenfeld. * Atau Tanaka, Professor of Media Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK * Caleb Kelly has written a richly rewarding critical genealogy of sound in the art gallery. His book is at once authoritative and invigorating in its range and the buzzing excitement of its analyses. With Gallery Sound, he has secured his place as one of the leading commentators on the sonic arts. * Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge, UK *

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Caleb Kelly is an academic and curator engaged in sound as it relates to art and music. He is the author of Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction, and the editor of Sound. Kelly is a curator and a senior academic at UNSW Art & Design, Australia.

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