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morpheme
Excerpt of the a/v work Morpheme by Electric Indigo (audio) and Thomas Wagensommerer (video), original duration 28 minutes. All sounds are derived from a 9 seconds long audio recording of one phrase: “To let noise into the system is a kind of fine art in…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Field Recording, by Lawrence English
Great article by Lawrence English at FACT: A Beginner’s guide to field recording In Peter Szendy’s provocative book Listening, he presents two related questions: “Can one make a listening listened to? Can I transmit my listening, unique as it is?” It’s these questions that have occupied…
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Measuring Sound in New York in the 40’s
The high levels of noise pollution in New York City instigated the formation of a noise abatement commission. Steven explains how innovator Harvey Fletcher became part of this movement and created a roving ‘noise laboratory’ that measured the amount of sound on the streets of…
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Cities Unlocked, Sound-Based System for Guiding Blind People Through Cities
Cities Unlocked is a recent project that aims to use a “3D soundscape” system for helping people with sight loss navigate through cities. On a typical day, Jennifer Bottom makes her way around London with her guide dog in tow. Sometimes, “I just wander about,…
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Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening
Interesting blog post at Center for Humans & Nature by Eric Leonardson on ethics, listening and acoustic ecology. If we are to find a way out of the current impasse, learning how to listen and developing an ethic of listening may be one way resolve it. Learning…
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juan carlos vasquez – collages
Music is scaled in time, placing audible realities in reductive diminutive forms but also in complex reflections in which bodies constitute vast landscapes that provide an infinite appreciation of matter and field. By combining some field recordings and samples from classical music performances, Juan Carlos Vasquez, breaks the music sheets and gets into…
