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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 / It starts with no story…
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Singed Daniela Cascella
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Material Sound @ MAMA
“Opening with a festival of live performances Material Sound brings together 6 contemporary artists who each create an experience of sound within installations and apparatus constructed from everyday materials. Curated by Caleb Kelly, Material Sound features newly commissioned work by artists Vicky Browne, Pia van Gelder, Caitlin…
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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 recognizes control must be forgone with…
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Journal of Sonic Studies, 15th Issue
The 15th issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies is now online, with no central theme but in a way selected to “discuss the ways in which sound is used and experienced in culture, both present and past.” Contents Editorial: Sound as/in/on Culture – Vincent…
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Chris Watson on the Spirit of Places
Two-part interview with Chris Watson, as part of the release of a new digital instrument by Soniccouture, called Haunted Spaces and based in 128 field recordings of the artist, who got them over the years in different places, which are meticulously picked because of “the…
