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Why we will not take part in the Phonurgia Nova – Field Recording award
Open letter to Phonurgia Nova and the Fondation François Sommer, July 2016. This year the Phonurgia Nova competition is added a new category with the Field Recording award. At first, we welcomed the news as a token of recognition for our activities: as their audience…
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Adam Basanta’s Curtain, An Installation Made of 240 Pairs of Ear Buds
Adam Basanta’s new work explores a microsonic network imagined as a sonic refugee: “The ubiquitous white earbud headphone creates an interior sonic environment into which one can retreat from the external world. Within this personalized sonic bubble, the headphones function as a visual “do not…
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Luigi Turra – Alea
When silence is revealed as a translucent, almost imperceptible and delicate vibratory fabric, any sonic phenomenon, even the dimmest murmur, can be felt as a yell of reality. Realities, perhaps, since they get expressed as multiplicities, ownerless storytelling; aimless, at the pace of time scales, where frequencies interweave…
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Ambient sound: presence, embodiment and the spatial turn
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#SoundCon 2016: Call & Application for Online Conferences
SoundCon is an online conference happening this year and dedicated to explore several topics around sound. It is partnering with World Listening Day 2016 to offer live streaming of discussions and presentations around this year’s WLD theme, “Sounds Lost & Found”. It will take place in July 17-18,…
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Field Recording as Art Form, an Introduction by Ableton
Ableton has published an interesting introduction to the art of field recording, focusing specially on its use as an art form, exploring some concepts, sharing some sounds and chatting with two well-known artists dedicated to the art of phonography, Chris Watson and Yannick Dauby. “One of…
