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Sculpture and Installations Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Legendary pioneer of Happenings, Allan Kaprow, created a piece for inSITE94 that referenced his historic contribution to art in his use of the found, commonplace, and literal experience. Kaprow chose to use the minaret tower at Centro Escolar Agua Caliente as the site for his piece and elaborated on the associations it evoked, from Muslim prayer towers to rockets and war missiles. With the title MUEZZIN, Kaprow made a reference to the Islamic crier, or muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer throughout the day. Rather than a human voice however, the artist used a recording of barking dogs calling out from the tower every hour, while a dense fog simultaneously was emitted from the base of the tower, simulating the firing of a missile. --inSITE94 Born digital Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This sound recording was extracted from a CD-R from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 254, CD 94-34) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. Centro Escolar Agua Caliente (Tijuana, Mexico)
Type
sound
Format
Digital audio (4 minutes, 31 seconds)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb90815558
Language
English
Subject
City noise Islam Public address systems Music Dogs Dogs--Barking Border art Noise Sound installations (Art) Adhan Sound recordings Aleatoric music Muezzins Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American border region InSITE94
Place
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) San Diego (Calif.) Mexican-American border region
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