Sound engineering is one of the fastest-growing branches of music production. The need for a broad-based discussion on the issues constituting the art of sound engineering persists and loses none of ...its relevance, revealing that sound engineering should not be investigated only in the mathematical and physical context (musical acoustics) or the engineering aspect (signal processing and modification).Publications targeted primarily at musicians are few and far between, which is why the mutual understanding for different priorities which effectively concern the same issues faced by the engineer, the acoustician and the musician, seems to be a complex problem and the main concept explored in this publication.This book is intended for musicians or sound directors, but also acousticians and sound engineers wishing to learn how the musicians think. The monograph is also addressed to musicians who intend to record their material in the studio in the near future, but do not possess knowledge on studio construction, studio workflow or the art of recording. It seems important to familiarize the musicians with the reality that awaits them on the other side of the glass, thus fostering their responsibility for the work jointly produced by them – entering the studio – and the sound director.
Previous studies on the emergence and development of video art in Poland have been generally focused on analysis of leading artists' creative concepts and poetics of their works. Such a perspective ...does not address a wider context of artistic culture – a configuration of material, institutional and social conditions od production, distribution and reception of these practices. This has resulted in a simplified, abstracted image of the beginnings of video art in Poland. A broaden and more historical analysis entails, therefore, re-inscribing its subject into a set of local and translocal conditions: material and technical modes of creating and presenting video works, their various forms, a topography of their production and distribution places, their circulation channels, a network of video art contacts, cooperation and exchange, and finally, the location of Poland as one of socialist countries of East Central Europe on the map of artistic and economic centres and peripheries. The task of analysing the video in such an expanded field of artistic culture also needs a broadened concept of “the work made with the use of the video.” The term refers not only to practices usually deemed to be the video art ‘proper,’ such as videotapes, videoinstallations or videoperformances, but also comprises all conceptual and documental forms of existence, distribution and presentation of video works: textual descriptions, schematic diagrams (which sometimes remain the only material form of a work), exhibition boards with photodocumentation, brochures or catalogues etc. The article offers an analysis of a series of exhibitions and projections of video works which took place at the Labirynt Gallery and Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions (BWA) in Lublin between 1976 and 1984. My approach combines in-depth archival research with the methodology of exhibition history, infrastructure and conditions of artistic production studies, and critical reception history. While doing this research ‘groundwork,’ I attempt to establish who actually participated in the discussed artistic events, describe the works which were showcased there and reflect on how they were or could have been interpreted. I take into account translocal and transnational networks of contacts of both institutions, their contributory programme, co-created by numerous artists and curators, as well as the whole of an expanded field of artistic culture: changing conditions of production, distribution and presentation of works made with the use of the video.
