• Meklit Hadero: The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds

    Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. “The world is alive with musical expression,” she says. “We are already immersed.” via…

  • Sound Studies Symposium: New Approaches to Listening

    Sound Studies Symposium: New Approaches to Listening

    Listening is a core issue of sound studies. The plasticity of listening situations, listening practices and listening discourses has recurrently been discussed in this interdisciplinary research field. On thursday November 19, 2015 we explore in a one day symposion at the University of Copenhagen current…

  • the resonance of fragile

    the resonance of fragile

    Acrylic Structure, Paper, Iron Structure, Speaker, Copper Pillars, Electronic Amplifier Module Human civilization and history had been recorded on sides of paper since two thousand years ago. The invention of paper was a great leap in the technology that kept human memories alive. Today, new…

  • 10 Buildings with Interesting Acoustics

    10 Buildings with Interesting Acoustics

    Interesting post at The Spaces with a list of 10 buildings with “extraordinary acoustics”. It is all too easy for architecture to be seen and not heard. Instragrammable visuals may be at our fingertips, but it is impossible to photograph an echo. Sad news, considering…

  • making with rainbows – towards a philosophy of sound(in)art

    Text by Richard Carr originally published in the curatorial publication “Play it by Ear”, for his solo exhibition at Soma Contemporary Gallery, Waterford City, Ireland. Within recent times ‘sound’ has gained in importance. This could be due to the ever increasing acceptance of ‘sound art’ practice and…

  • haruo okada + fabio perletta – 邂逅 (kaikō)

    haruo okada + fabio perletta – 邂逅 (kaikō)

    Listening interrupts or invites, this time is both, beautifuly presented as both emergence and attraction, as a set of improvisational moments and temporary guidelines; a constant, surprising and unpredictable resonance weaving from a paradox: planned and random, apparently calculated but ultimately subject to the unforeseen.邂逅 is a…