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Video interview with Ben Gwilliam
After making dozens of interviews to sound artists and experimental musicians via email for The Field Reporter and for Sonic Field, I found that my everyday life conversations with artists were so much more interesting and eloquent, so after moving…
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Kodwo Eshun: Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture
This needs no introduction. “Kodwo Eshun delivering the inaugural Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. 19th January 2018.”
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CALL FOR WORK: Wayback Sound Machine, a constellation of sounding time
Wayback Sound Machine: a constellation of sounding time, is an ongoing series that will be published right here on Sonic Field throughout 2018. series abstract: What can we gather from sounding the past? And with that in mind, what is…
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Sounding the Archives: Sounding the past towards a future living archive
A message from the author: The following is writing from an earlier time in my recent research project, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place. It felt an appropriate beginning to share here as the first part of the…
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New Books by Daniela Cascella, Jason Kahn, Brandon Labelle and Holger Schulze
There are new sound books around, some released in recent months, others to arrive soon, all of them written by well-known authors in the field. Singed, by Daniela Cascella Equus Press “It starts with no story but a circular /…
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Manifesto for future ambient
Composer and ROOM40 commander Lawrence English has published at FACT an interesting retrospective of ambient as genre, aesthetic, philosophy, etc, including at the end a beautiful manifesto entitled “12 notes on future ambient”: Ambient is a music of lived moments. Ambient…