Listening
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asmus tietchens – ornamente
The atom is a way of valuing the macro, creating a challenge in the way we listen to the conglomerate of micro-noises that are revealed in the sonic continuum. A grain is a condensed sonic universe, an archetypical point of texture in which particle…
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, New Book by Michel Chion
Duke University Press has announced the arrival of Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, the first English translation of Michel Chion‘s Le Son book, originally published in French in 1998 and revised in 2010, where the author explores a wide variety of…
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Four New Books: Sonic Virtuality, Listening To War, Sensing Sound, Instruments of New Music
It’s very interesting to see the production of books about sound growing. In one side, it’s always challenging, difficult and almost impossible to theorize sound, at least in the way other aspects of life are theorized. But on the other hand,…
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Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History, Call for Papers
Stony Brook University is announcing a new conference on sound and history, co-organized by the department of music, department of philosophy and the school of health technology & management. Main speakers are Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King’s College London), Stefan Helmreich (Professor of…
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New Book: The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd Edition
Many of you may already know The Auditory Culture Reader, a wonderful compilation of essays and reflections edited by Michael Bull and Les Back and contributed by a fine selection of authors. Such edition is completely fantastic, well organized and able to…