Publications
Kaduri, Yael. 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Image in Western Art. New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN: 9780199841547
This book examines different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations, and collaborations of the audio and the visual in different art forms. The contributions, written by key theoreticians and practitioners, represent state-of-the-art case studies in contemporary art, integrating music, sound, and image with key figure of modern thinking constitute a foundation for the discussion. It thus emphasizes avant-garde and experimental tendencies, while analyzing them in historical, theoretical, and critical frameworks. The book is organized around three core subjects, each of which constitutes one section of the book. The first concentrates on the interaction between seeing and hearing. Examples of classic and digital animation, video art, choreography, and music performance, which are motivated by the issue of eye versus ear perception are examined in this section. The second section explores experimental forms emanating from the expansion of the concepts of music and space to include environmental sounds, vibrating frequencies, language, human habitats, the human body, and more. The reader will find here an analysis of different manifestations of this aesthetic shift in sound art, fine art, contemporary dance, multimedia theatre, and cinema. The last section shows how the new light shed by modernism on the performative aspect of music has led it—together with sound, voice, and text—to become active in new ways in postmodern and contemporary art creation. In addition to examples of real-time performing arts such as music theatre, experimental theatre, and dance, it includes case studies that demonstrate performativity in visual poetry, short film, and cinema.
Kaduri, Yael. 2020. Schreiben über das Ephemere (Ewige) in der Kunst: Das Phänomen der Stimme in den Inszenierungen der Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. In Meyer, Petra Maria (Ed.) Ephemer. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 311-338.
The article deals with the work of two contemporary voice artists – Chiara Guidi (Italy, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio) and Adina Bar-On (Israel), and explores the human vocal expression in performance art and contemporary theater. Drawing on Antonin Artaud's ideas regarding the role of language and vocal expression in theater and based on interviews with the artists, the author develops the idea of merging the text and its performance as a central idea for performance art and experimental theater.
Kaduri, Yael (Ed.) 2013. Ear Sees, Eye Hears: On the Interconnections between Sound and Picture in Art (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, Magnes Press.
ISBN: 978-965-493-735-1
The book deals with the interactions between music and image in diverse artistic contexts, with an emphasis on modernism, avant-garde and contemporary art. It includes essays by leading academics from Israel and abroad, and four essays written by artists on their own creative processes. The readers are presented with a broad contemporary overview of the subject, which combines theory and practice and accompanied by rich visual materials. A wide variety of disciplines are listed, as well as a diverse sorts of music-image interconnections, among them performance art, visual music, cinema and animation.
Yael Kaduri. 2016. Chapter I: Introduction: Audiovisual Spaces of Physical Comprehension. In Yael Kaduri (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1-14.
The introduction to this volume describes the rationale behind the overall structure of the Handbook, starting with the question of how music and sound have become so important in recent developments in contemporary art. It discusses three aspects, which are reflected in the division of the volume into three sections. The first is the sensorial distinction between art and music; the second is the intangible physicality of sound waves, the raw material of music; and the third is music as a product of live performance. Suggesting a short survey of historical, aesthetic, theoretical, and technological developments, the introduction shows how these three pivotal cores are also threads that run through much of the volume in many different variations. It thus suggests a conceptual map of an audiovisual cultural space, emphasizing the way it creates physical comprehension of philosophical matters that are at the heart of modern and contemporary art in general.
Kaduri, Yael. 2009. Klee's Art of Fugue: Time and Process in Music and Painting, in Bezalel, History & Theory journal Archive: Protocols, No. 12 (2009) https://journal.bezalel.ac.il/he/protocol/article/2995
The article seeks to explore the central role the fugue plays in Paul Klee’ paintings and writings. The fugue, by its very nature, forms an outstanding expression of the way texture and structure are interrelated in music. On the one hand, the fugue is built by procedural texture that emerges in real time, thus emphasizing the fact that music is a temporal art. On the other hand, the principals of fugal composition introduce structural logic, thus organizing the procedural flow into a whole form. It is this dialectical relationship between texture and structure that explains the special appeal the fugue had for Paul Klee and other Bauhaus artists in their attempts to construct a new, abstract, visual language.
Kaduri, Yael. 2013. Performing Voice: Text.Sound.Object. in Kaduri, Yael. (Ed.) Ear Sees, Eye Hears: On the Interconnections between Sound and Picture in Art (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, Magnes Press. pp. 38-64
The article deals with the work of two contemporary voice artists – Chiara Guidi (Italy, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio) and Adina Bar-On (Israel), and explores the human vocal expression in performance art and contemporary theater. Drawing on Antonin Artaud's ideas regarding the role of language and vocal expression in theater and based on interviews with the artists, the author develops the idea of merging the text and its performance as a central idea for performance art and experimental theater.