Audio Arts

Ships in 7 Working Days Audio Arts was a British sound magazine published on audio cassettes, documenting contemporary artistic activity via artist or curator interviews, sound performances or sound art by artists. Since its inception by British artist William Furlong in 1973, Audio Arts has become one of the most comprehensive and coherently focused aural archive of artists’ voices and sound art in the world. From 1973 to 2006, Audio Arts published 25 volumes of 4 issues of the Audio Arts Cassettes (later releasing LPs and CDs as well) alongside more than 60 supplements. Furlong conducted all interviews until 1996, when Jean Wainwright took the baton as interviewer. Each interview starts with I am here with..., stating artist's name and recording location. Interviewees include: Andy Warhol, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, R. Buckminster Fuller, Hermann Nitsch, Mario Merz, Gerhard Richter and Nam June Paik. Some of the interviewees were themselves great