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Between Tension and Echoes: The Sonic Spaces of Rubén D’Hers
Venezuelan artist Rubén D’hers has published some video documentation of his latest sculptures/installations, such as jaula nerviosa, in which modified birdcages serve as sound sculptures in which resonance is activated by a set of strings, tables, piezos, transducers, motors and even a macaw feather. The result…
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Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listener (1932 – 2016)
Exactly one month ago, artist and theorist Pauline Oliveros passed away, but her legacy remains in our hearts, where, as she knew and taught, our listening experience expands. Among a wide variety of things she did in her extensive career, she was known for exploring listening coupled…
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The Sound of Memory Symposium: Sound-track/Sound-scape, Call for Submissions
The Sound of Memory Symposium has opened a call for submissions for upcoming events taking place between 22 and 24 April 2017 at London, in two locations: Zilkha Auditorium: Whitechapel Gallery and Goldsmiths, University of London. “Proposals are invited for academic papers, study reports, posters, acousmatic compositions informed…
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‘Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox’, New Book by Gordon Hempton
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, known as “The Sound Tracker” has published Earth is a Solar Powered Jukebox, a new book dedicated to explore his scientific and artistic perspectives around environmental sound, field recording and sound design. “Presented in two parts, Forces of Nature and Habitats, all 17…
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Dirty Ear, A Research Platform for Contemporary Sound Studies and Sound Art
With six editions already, Dirty Ear Forum is a project of Errant Bodies dedicated to explore sound studies and sound art in contemporary processes, embracing the multiplicity of sound’s practical and theoretical perspectives. “In particular, the project aims to pose sound as a…
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Dirty Ear Report #2 Ricarda Denzer (Contributor), Claudia Firth (Contributor), Lucia Farinati (Contributor) In this second installment of the Dirty Ear Report series, leading sound artists and theorists argue for sound as a new paradigm in art, particularly considering questions of noise and otherness. Ricarda…
