Sound art

  • Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations on Rêvolutions by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

    Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations on Rêvolutions by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

    Introduction Today a growing group of sonic artists engage with plants as collaborators in their processes and creations. The duo Feral Practice invites audience members to sound walks in forests to reflect on ecological and social issues in the vicinity…

  • Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening

    A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening

    [vimeo 225328567 w=640 h=360] A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening is a collaborative tour showcasing the work of four contemporary British artists working in the field of sound art. The artists have curated a collection of sculptural artworks that…

  • Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled

    Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled

    At one time Japanese sound artist Takanobu Hoshino’s art was seemingly concerned with the crackling Geiger counter air of his home city Fukushima. The ubiquitous residual glint of radioactivity permeated his creations, for example the CD ‘Fukushima’, a collaboration with Roel Meelkop,…

  • Takanobu Hoshino – Ancient star story of Asia

    Takanobu Hoshino – Ancient star story of Asia

      Takanobu Hoshino’s art, whether painting, photography, sculpture or sound, is an art of subtle clarity and clear simplicity. This isn’t to say the results are without depth or mystery however, because a consistency of intention lies at the heart…

  • Luigi Turra – Alea

    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…