Participatory Sound Art

"How exactly can listeners participate in sound art? Vadim Keylin explores this issue within contemporary aesthetics through an impressive series of analyses, through fieldwork, conceptual critique as well as through reflections on epistemologies, art history and media history. He proposes to conceptualize participatory sound art through a sonic pragmatism that suggests a stimulating interpretation and application of the notion of affordances in the field of sound studies. With Keylin's approach, works of sound art become consistently recognizable as scenarios for and of encounters."

-Holger Schulze, Professor of Musicology, Copenhagen University, Denmark

"It is always good to read how young, promising scholars contribute new insights to the prevailing sound studies discourse. Vadim Keylin's Participatory Sound Art opens a field, a niche, within sound studies that so far hasn't been explored systematically, namely the relationship between sound art and participatory art, thereby emphasizing sound art as a participatory art. Reflecting on many interesting sound artworks and bringing them into contact with theories grounded in pragmatism, Keylin has managed to enrich the already impressive theories on sound art with new concepts, new perceptions, and new approaches."