Chaz Underriner
Writing
Article in Leonardo Music Journal
I’m pleased to share that my article “Mimesis, Murakami and Multimedia Art: Parallel Worlds in Performance” has been published in volume 29 of Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press).
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/lmj_a_01059
Abstract:
The artistic techniques of mimesis—the representation of reality in art—make it possible to “render the unreal familiar or the real strangely unfamiliar.” The author, a composer and intermedia artist, uses mimetic techniques in acoustic composition, video art and field recording to reimagine everyday experience, as in his multimedia piece Landscape: Home. The author analyzes passages from the novel Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami to understand Murakami’s use of “parallel worlds” and the “reality effect.” This literary analysis aims to highlight the potential of mimetic techniques for artistic practice in sound and image, particularly in the author’s Landscape series.
LINKs journal article
I’m very pleased to have been asked by Hervé Zénouda to contribute some thoughts to a new transdisciplinary arts journal in France called LINKs. You can read my essay from issue 3 of the journal online or download the .pdf below.
Article in Organised Sound
Underriner, Charles Francis. “The Sound-Poetry of the Instability of Reality: The Audio Reality Effect and Mimesis.” Organised Sound 22, no. 1 (2017): 20–31. doi:10.1017/S1355771816000303. ABSTRACT: This article proposes the audio reality effect as a meaningful translation of Roland Barthes’s literary reality effect … Continue reading