Ecology

  • Meklit Hadero: The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds

    Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. “The world is alive with musical expression,” she says.…

  • the resonance of fragile

    the resonance of fragile

    Acrylic Structure, Paper, Iron Structure, Speaker, Copper Pillars, Electronic Amplifier Module Human civilization and history had been recorded on sides of paper since two thousand years ago. The invention of paper was a great leap in the technology that kept…

  • 10 Buildings with Interesting Acoustics

    10 Buildings with Interesting Acoustics

    Interesting post at The Spaces with a list of 10 buildings with “extraordinary acoustics”. It is all too easy for architecture to be seen and not heard. Instragrammable visuals may be at our fingertips, but it is impossible to photograph…

  • making with rainbows – towards a philosophy of sound(in)art

    Text by Richard Carr originally published in the curatorial publication “Play it by Ear”, for his solo exhibition at Soma Contemporary Gallery, Waterford City, Ireland. Within recent times ‘sound’ has gained in importance. This could be due to the ever increasing acceptance…

  • infinite grain 11: franz rosati

    infinite grain 11: franz rosati

    [infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring…

  • New Crowdfunding Campaign for Pauline Oliveros Documentary

    Filmmaker, musician and recording engineer Daniel Weintraub is looking for funding at Indiegogo for finishing a documentary on the work of Pauline Oliveros, the amazing woman behind the wonderful deep listening movement. Let’s support it and help to make this promising project a reality. There…