Essays
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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…
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Sonic (Dys)tonic | Kim Munro, Peta Murray, and Stayci Taylor
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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Jordan Lacey: Some thoughts on the contemporary Urban-Nature Division
A note from the editor, on Sonic, Social, Distance: In an interview with Digicult, Salomé Voegelin describes, “I understand sound, exactly because of its formless in-between nature”.[1] As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into…