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After Sound: Toward a Critical Music G Douglas Barrett After Sound considers contemporary art practices that reconceive music beyond the limitation of sound. This book is called After Sound *because music and sound are, in Barrett’s account, different entities. While…
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“Acoustic Infrastructures”, continent. journal special issue on sound
Continent. journal has published an interesting issue on sound called Acoustic Infrastructures, exploring a wide range of perspectives around them, crossing art, ecology, technology, philosophy, among others. The street-level sonic cultures, acoustic ecologies and personal interventions available to us have,…
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Aki Onda – A Study for “Space Studies”
https://vimeo.com/180064749 Aki Onda’s sound work is undoubtedly vast and fascinating, from his cassette memories project series, to his audio-visual explorations and those amazing site-specific performances done in collaboration with Akio Suzuki, where both are mostly dedicated to the exploration of sound…
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A blind astronomer who studies the stars by hearing
The touching story of Wanda Diaz Merced, an astronomer focused on data analysis who, after becoming blind because of a degenerative disease, loose the main tool for her visual research on big mass/energetic cosmic movements, a situation which turned to…
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Why we will not take part in the Phonurgia Nova – Field Recording award
Open letter to Phonurgia Nova and the Fondation François Sommer, July 2016. This year the Phonurgia Nova competition is added a new category with the Field Recording award. At first, we welcomed the news as a token of recognition for…
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Adam Basanta’s Curtain, An Installation Made of 240 Pairs of Ear Buds
Adam Basanta’s new work explores a microsonic network imagined as a sonic refugee: “The ubiquitous white earbud headphone creates an interior sonic environment into which one can retreat from the external world. Within this personalized sonic bubble, the headphones function…