Sounds
Knowles has been active in sound since the late 1960s. In 1968 she designed and co-edited John Cage's Notations, a book of visual music scores, for the Something Else Press. The book and exhibition was performed at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt in 2005. Her 1971 Bean Garden consisted of the sounds of people walking over a large platform covered with beans when visiting Charlotte Moorman's Annual New York Festival of the Avant-Garde. In 1982, Knowles was awarded the Karl Sczuka Award for best radio work from WDR for her sound work Bohnen Sequenzen (Bean Sequences).
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Famous quotes containing the word sounds:
“Dylan used to sound like a lung cancer victim singing Woody Guthrie. Now he sounds like a Rolling Stone singing Immanuel Kant.”
—Also quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, ch. 2, “Prophet Without Honor” (1986)
“I spoke at a woman’s club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, “Well, that sounds very nice, but don’t you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?” I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“I that so long
Was Nothing from Eternity,
Did little think such Joys as Ear and Tongue
To celebrate or see:
Such Sounds to hear, such Hands to feel, such Feet,
Such Eyes and Objects, on the Ground to meet.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)