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YNK: Sonic Fabulations, Field Studies and Nonhuman Relations
YNK is an interesting podcast/radio project from Islands Songs, aka Nicolas Perret and Silvia Ploner who, in words of Salomé Voegelin, “orchestrate the uncertainty of the heard, frame perception as doubt and invite participation in the unknown.” Featuring several contributors from diverse perspectives, YNK includes…
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Pierre Henry (1927 – 2017)
Concrete musique pioneer Pierre Henry has passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Our condolences to family and friends and our ears open to remembrance. Vía Le monde
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David Toop: Sinister Resonance, Full Lecture @ MALBA, Argentina
English musician, writer and curator David Toop was recently in Buenos Aires Argentina at MALBA giving a lecture on his ideas around listening, sound, performance and some specific explorations from his books, specially Sinister Resonance. The event was organized by the British Council, San Martín University…
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Journal of Sonic Studies 14 Now Online
The 14th issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies is online for free reading. “Although many JSS issues are thematically organized, often with the help and under the responsibility of a guest editor and established without a public call for submissions, we deem it important to publish non-thematic…
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Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay across Disciplines (California Studies in 20th-Century Music) Pierre Schæffer The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer’s most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest…
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Audio Culture, Revised Edition: Readings in Modern Music Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture…
