2019
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The Adventures of Unblocked Ears #5: Whiteout
This track was made by Unblocked Ears’ curator Katharina Schmidt for Naviar Records‘ Haiku Challenge, based on this Haiku by Alan Summers: snowing through the blizzard particles of me To learn more about the challenge and participate, check out this…
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The Adventures of Unblocked Ears #4: Katharina Hauke & MikroKontrolleur
This track is an improvisation of Katharina with her instrument Mikrokontrolleur. Headphones recommended. Katharina Hauke is a Berlin based audio and visual artist and director of photography. https://soundcloud.com/katharinahauke/mehrere-5-loopstation https://vimeo.com/katharinahauke MikroKontrolleur is an all-improvisation-instrument working with live sound input and modulation as…
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Sound as Popular Culture: A Research Companion (The MIT Press) Jens Gerrit Papenburg, Holger Schulze Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound. The…
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The Sound of Nonsense (The Study of Sound) Richard Elliott In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the ‘nonsense’ of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before…
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Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean Alejandra M. Bronfman In this media history of the Caribbean, Alejandra Bronfman traces how technology, culture, and politics developed in a region that was “wired” earlier and more widely than many other…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Douglas Kahn This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on…