Ecology

  • Three New Books: Voices of the Wild, The Tone of Our Times, Sounding the Limits of Life

    Below are three new books on sound, two already out and one for november (pre-order available). Voices of the Wild – Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes, by Bernie Krause. Yale University Press | Amazon Since 1968, Bernie…

  • chijikinkutsu

    chijikinkutsu

    winner of golden nica at prix ars 2015. by nelo akamatsu: “Chijikinkutsu” is a coinage, specially created for the title of this work by mingling two Japanese words: “Chijiki” and “Suikinkutsu.” “Chijiki” means geomagnetism: terrestrial magnetic properties that cannot be…

  • New STR Release: Fellside, by Harry Sumner

    Happy to announce a new release at Sonic Terrain: Fellside by Harry Sumner, the mastermind behind the great sonospace. LISTEN TO RELEASE

  • New Book: Thresholds of Listening – Sound, Technics, Space

    Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective…

  • Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead…

  • infinite grain 10: steve roden

    infinite grain 10: steve roden

    (Photo by Robert Crouch, courtesy of LACE) [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] “I’m not interested in…