Sonic Arts
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Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture
Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, book by Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens, published at Strange Attractor. An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay…
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Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art
Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury. From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches…
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Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound
Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…
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A Manifesto for Care-ful Listening (listening for everything)
Listening Across Disciplines has published a wonderful manifesto result of their Points of Listening public event held at the De La Warr Pavilion. “… we conducted participatory experiments in care-ful listening. Through the workshop process we created collaborative manifestos, guidelines, protocols…
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Two New Bloomsbury Handbooks: Sound Art and Anthropology of Sound
Bloomsbury Academic is about to release two new handbooks, one this month, the other in September. Both are now available for pre-order. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, 592 pages, available 02-20-2020…
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Interview with Taiwanese composer Cyanching
We are with Cyanching in her London apartment listening to her debut album ‘Shadow of a Shadow’ and speaking about the creative process behind this work which was published on cassette on Bezirk and debuted with positive and rewarding reviews.…