Essays
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Listening as Witnessing
Witnessing is a new inter- and multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, launching with a special issue on listening, co-edited by Brandon LaBelle and Anna Papaeti. “This special issue draws on a selection of papers given at two international symposia organized in the…
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Chronic Sonics
Sonic Warfare is still a main reference for many of us around here. Now more than ever, Steve Goodman’s theories are relevant, as the audiovisual machine expands dramatically. Urbanomic will be releasing (March) a new Goodman’s text entitled “Notes on…
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Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations on Rêvolutions by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Introduction Today a growing group of sonic artists engage with plants as collaborators in their processes and creations. The duo Feral Practice invites audience members to sound walks in forests to reflect on ecological and social issues in the vicinity…
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Solidarity, Empathy and Otherness in Ethnographic Artistic Collaboration: The Work of León David Cobo
León David Cobo is a Colombian artist who works with sound, community field work, and listening, and has a practice operating somewhere between sound art, ethnomusicology, anthropology and ethnography. His work with vulnerable communities who have been exposed to violence…
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Scott Sherk | Listening to:
A message from the editor: Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…
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Covid Backyard | Dirk de Bruyn
A message from the editor: Sonic, Social, Distanc As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…