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Sight and Sound: The Cinema of Walter Murch
This feature-length documentary, viewed and enjoyed by legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch himself (“The Conversation”, “Apocalypse Now”), was culled by Jon Lefkovitz from over 50 hours of Murch’s lectures, interviews, and commentaries. Jon Lefkovitz is an award-winning filmmaker and editor with fourteen years…
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Speculative Noise and Premonitory Matter: An Interview with Jorge Barco
(Translated from the original published at Sonic Field in Spanish) To ask about the borders between science, art and speculation is ambiguous. Although the categories that we have created over the years have forced us to separate the disciplines and then talk about their interrelation,…
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Sound Studies Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1
Sound Studies Journal has published its first issue of 2020, this time dedicated to explore “the vibrational materiality of sound and its status as an epistemological object”, as explained by Veit Erlmann from the University of Texas at Austin: “The papers in this issue intervene,…
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Salomé Voegelin: “I understand sound, exactly because of its formless in-between nature”
Digicult has published a wonderful interview with Salomé Voegelin, conducted by Leandro Pisano, where they talk about several issues around Voegelin’s research ideas, specially her perspectives around the political possibility of sound, which is the central topic of her latest book, published 2 years ago.…
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Empty Cities
Vacuamoenia has a new project called Empty Cities, dedicated to explore urban sound during quarantine: Following government directives and to counter the spread of Coronavirus in Italy, each of us has made a commitment not to leave the house and to limit travel as much as possible,…
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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 onslaught of vibrating data seems…
