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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“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)
“We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.”
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“Not many sounds in life ... exceed in interest a knock at the door.”
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