• The post-digital condition – nomadism, fluidity and micromaterialism towards listening in the contemporary age

    Originally published at Italian Magazine Blow-up. Translated by Laura Domínguez. “The digital revolution is over” It’s almost fifteen years now since Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, declared the trigger effect of radical transformation generated by digital cultures in contemporary times exhausted,…

  • Three New Books: Voices of the Wild, The Tone of Our Times, Sounding the Limits of Life

    Below are three new books on sound, two already out and one for november (pre-order available). Voices of the Wild – Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes, by Bernie Krause. Yale University Press | Amazon Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world…

  • chihei hatakeyama + federico durand – magical imaginary child

    chihei hatakeyama + federico durand – magical imaginary child

    Listening is pure innocence, detachment, abandonment not of sound but the claim for it. Composing is largely invitation to humility and intuition, showing that what we call spirit is actually pure silence, that which awakens, moves and encourages sound as such; a silence present as…

  • clinamen

    clinamen

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a French artist and composer who creates large-scale acoustic installations and environments which draw upon laws of nature and the rhythms of everyday life to produce new forms of art and music. In clinamen white porcelain bowls float on the surface of…

  • yann novak – idleness, endlessness

    yann novak – idleness, endlessness

    How many possible horizons? Where is the listening but in the vast ocean of its transit? In a temporal dislocation called Idleness, Endlessness, Novak gives the soul a question, going deep inside its cosmic coordinates, submerging the listener into expansive landscapes, filled with an atmosphere that somehow merges earth…

  • chijikinkutsu

    chijikinkutsu

    winner of golden nica at prix ars 2015. by nelo akamatsu: “Chijikinkutsu” is a coinage, specially created for the title of this work by mingling two Japanese words: “Chijiki” and “Suikinkutsu.” “Chijiki” means geomagnetism: terrestrial magnetic properties that cannot be sensed by the human body…