Ah is the title of a work by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI), an artist duo feature in this Fall 2017 issue of ART PAPERS, which was conceived around the theme of sound--as artists’ field recordings, as graphic renderings, as aural memory or evidence, as spoken language, and of course, as music. If you interrupt “ah” with a G, you have “agh”: a frustration, the first half of the word “aghast,” an indication of pain, and perhaps the dominant sound of 2017, a year of collective outcry, derailment, struggle for self-determination, and coercion, but certainly also of revelation. TABLE OF CONTENTS Luftmensch: An Interview with Paul Holdengräber Will Corwin The New York Public Library's "Curator of Public Curiosity" on Werner Herzog, inherited trauma, and the art of the question Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Terrain of Auscultation Rayya Badran "Echo profiles," "ear witnesses," and audio forensics inform the practice of an artist and "private ear" working at the intersection of sound and politics. Songs for Disaster Relief: An Interview with Samson Young Vivian Chui Do they know it's Christmas? Yes, they do. Charity jingles chart the rise of neoliberalism at the Hong Kong pavilion in Venice. Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Blythe Sheldon Flash animation to make a frenzied bid for utopia, sex, freedom, and jazz Psychopompopolis x Waves of Disaster Remix Erin Jane Nelson x Jason Benson PHILOSOPHY The Chorus at Dawn: An Aesthetics of the Tweet Meredith Kooi If a bird sings in the morning and there's no one around to record it, did it really make a sound? If the bird is silent, do we still exist? Four Poems Jeremy Sigler The sound of the heart, the sound of "it is what it is," the sound of the typewriter, and the sound of all the phonemes read aloud at once ESSAY Signature Sounds, Cultural Architecture Floyd Hall Audio tags, album notes, and creative agency, from Afrika Bambaataa to Zaytoven TIMELINE MP3 Odyssey 2001 Jasmine Amussen The year Napster shut down, iTunes was born, and OutKast gave us "So Fresh and So Clean" Glossary: TRAP RYC It's the sound of the elevator doors closing. Reviews Kochi Muziris Biennale: Forming in the pupil of an eye Pujan Gandhi Gordon Bennett: Be Polite Amy Luo The International of Visionaries Raphael Koenig True Faith Francesca Gavin Chris Robinson: Southern Lights August Krickel Marching to the Beat Glen Helfand Soundtracks Monica Westin An Te Liu: Transmission Travis Diehl Stephanie Comilang: Yesterday, In The Years 1886 and 2017 Heather Rigg So I traveled a great deal... Yuri Stone Sidsel Meineche Hansen: OVER Lizzie Homersham VOICE = SURVIVAL Logan Lockner Blue in the Face Matt Christy Stefan Tcherepnin: Forgetting Paul Anthony Smith: Walls Without Borders Erin Jane Nelson
