Books

  • Quantum Listening, Pauline Oliveros’ Manifesto for Listening as Activism

    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…

  • Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    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;…

  • The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

    The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

    Description By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in…

  • Sound Art – Concepts and Practices

    Sound Art – Concepts and Practices

    Sound Art offers the first comprehensive introduction to sound art written for undergraduate students. Bridging and blending aspects of the visual and sonic arts, modern sound art first emerged in the early 20th century and has grown into a thriving…

  • Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from…

  • Sonic Phantoms – Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

    Sonic Phantoms – Composition with Auditory Phantasmatic Presence

    Description In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of ‘sonic phantoms’: auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a ‘phantasmatic’ presence. Structured around a large body…