Ecology
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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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Sound Maps in the 21st Century
Interesting reflection by sound artist John Kannenberg around sound maps and its current possibilities, challenges and meaning. “Sound maps are boring. Why? I would argue it’s because they’ve become stuck in a rut that began when the idea of ‘sound…
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Towards a “New” Sonic Ecology, Lecture by Marcel Cobussen
In his inaugural lecture as as professor in Auditory Culture at the University of Leiden, Marcel Cobussen, researcher, founder of the Journal of Sonic Studies and recently co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, exposed a fascinating idea around…
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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.
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Calls for Recordings: Wildlife Exhibit, Sacred Spaces, Innerscape
There are some calls for field recordings you might be interested to participate in: One is at Sonospace, for Wildlife Field Recording Exhibition 2016. It will be launched in December and presented in an interactive installation in Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline is…
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On Listening #1: Thinking (through) the ear
Curated by Arnau Horta is ON LISTENING, a new program by the radio of Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA. The first part of the series, Thinking (through) the ear, is a fascinating exploration of listening and sonic philosophy in the…