Essays
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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…
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Poetic Presence: New Environments in Media Arts
Currently, we are living in strange and surreal times under the spectre of a global virus pandemic. An aggravated sense of social alienation is exacerbated by a thriving social media, with nonstop bombardment of information. Often this vociferous…
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THE BIG BANG and what we left behind (or, hearing loss) | Essay by Samuel Hertz
A message from the editor… How time passes, and how time is felt passing, how time is personal and ever changing its costumes and definitions. Within that what is a moment. Within that what is an event. What is shared,…
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The Thingness of Sound | Essay by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
[‘Thinking Resonance’ is a series articles based on a bidirectional relation considered between sound and thinking, approaching the interstice between thinking about and/or through sound/listening, that is, sonority both as object of study and as speculative/critical device] The Thingness of Sound…
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Particular Sounds That Made A Difference | Essay by Thomas Park
Part of the ongoing series: WAYBACK SOUND MACHINE, A CONSTELLATION OF SOUNDING TIME A message from the editor: In this soundtracked text, we can listen to a past, and experience the soundscape of a home for twelve years, while…