Sonic Arts
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Eco: Interviews about the exploration of sound in Latin America by female artists. Elizabeth Polanco
In Greek mythology, Echo (Eco) was a nymph from whose mouth came the most beautiful words. Once upon a time Zeus wife Hera became jealous of Echo and she cursed her so she could only repeat the last words uttered by other people. Following…
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Aural Superimpositions: Olivia Block on Sonic Architecture and Sonambient Pavilion Installation
Here’s an excerpt from a recent talk by sound artist Olivia Block in which she exposes her approach to sound in relation to architecture, specifically in her recent Sonambient Pavilion, where she explored some interesting topics around sounds, materials, shapes, textures, layers,…
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Thousands of Bird Recordings Organized by Artificial Intelligence in this Interactive Experiment
Bird Sounds is a Google A.I. experiment created by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan and Yotam Mann, as a collaboration between Google Creative Lab, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Macaulay Library using an open source code.