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Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary Brandon LaBelle Lexicon of the Mouth surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation…
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Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts Douglas Kahn Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day.…
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Ocean of Sound David Toop Ocean of Sound begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the…
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In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art Seth Kim-Cohen An ear-opening reassessment of sonic art from World War II to the present Marcel Duchamp famously championed a “non-retinal” visual art, rejecting judgments of taste and beauty. In the Blink of an…
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Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan, Paul Hegarty Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression…
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Soundscape Larry Sider The School of Sound is a unique annual event exploring the use of sound in film, which has attracted practitioners, academics and artists from around the world. Soundscape is the first compendium of the event’s presentations that investigate the modern soundtrack and…
