Books
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Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method
The other day I was reading Christopher Haworth’s fantastic interview with Robin Mackay, where he talks about the experimental audio essays they used to experiment with back in the CCRU days. Their “sonic faction” developed a truly visionary idea of…
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A Resonant Ecology
Duke University Press is releasing Max Ritts’ Resonant Ecology book on October 4 this year, as part of the Sign Storage Transmission series edited by Lisa Gitelman and Jonathan Sterne. “In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration…
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Sound Affects: A User’s Guide
New book in the Thinking Media series at Bloomsbury. Edited by Sharon Jane Mee and Luke Robinson, “Sound Affects: A User’s Guide” explores both in the ways sound affects and also how affects actually sound. E-Book already available. Paperback available…
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Spectres IV: A Thousand Voices
Fourth volume of these amazing series which address different topics of sonic reality, this time dedicated to the voice. “The voice is everywhere, infiltrating everything, making civilisation, marking out territories with infinite borders, spreading from the farthest reaches to the…
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Quantum Listening, Pauline Oliveros’ Manifesto for Listening as Activism
Ignota has published Pauline Oliveros’ Quantum Listening manifesto, with introduction by IONE, foreword by Laurie Anderson and illustrations by Aura Satz. “What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge of…
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Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice
Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature;…