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Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound
Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…
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A Manifesto for Care-ful Listening (listening for everything)
Listening Across Disciplines has published a wonderful manifesto result of their Points of Listening public event held at the De La Warr Pavilion. “… we conducted participatory experiments in care-ful listening. Through the workshop process we created collaborative manifestos, guidelines, protocols…
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The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates
Abstract: Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds, frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely unstudied. Here, we address several fundamental questions about the origins of acoustic communication in terrestrial…
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Two New Bloomsbury Handbooks: Sound Art and Anthropology of Sound
Bloomsbury Academic is about to release two new handbooks, one this month, the other in September. Both are now available for pre-order. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, 592 pages, available 02-20-2020…
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Silence and Forest Sentience in Mustarinda, by John Grzinich
Sound artist John Grzinich has published an interesting article on a recent residency he had at Mustarinda. “In October-November 2019 I was fortunate to spend a month experiencing the slow transition between late-Autumn and early-Winter in the forests of central…
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Sound Art Revisited, by Alan Licht
Bloomsbury has released a revisited edition of Alan Licht’s classic “Sound Art” book, expanding from the initial point stablished in the first edition. The first edition of Sound Art Revisited (published as Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Categories) served as a groundbreaking work…