Listening
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gintas k – blind man tales
Gintas K defines his own coordinates in the space-form contract and the aesthetics of sound matter, finding paths in the malleable, dealing with compounds that not only participate in the gestation of new musical variations in the audible element but also invite to an…
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Millions of People at Risk of Hearing Loss
The unsafe use of personal audio devices and high sound volumes at events are putting over a billion teens and young adults at risk of permanent hearing loss, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday. Data analyzed by the UN…
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Christine Sun Kim: A New Way to Listen
Though she was born deaf, Christine Sun Kim’s favorite medium to work with is sound. We visited her Brooklyn studios and she showed us what she has in store for her Lincoln Reimagine Project. As a Lincoln Reimagine Project honoree,…
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yann novak + fabio perletta – liminality
Sound is a poetic way of cosmology, a direct sign of an implicated order. Embracing that without forgetting the random and ephemeral nature of sound, Novak and Perletta find a shared world; or more than a world, a state; more than shared, diverse, surprising. The…
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darren mcclure – the world is made of words
The possibilities of prolongated listening are often overwhelming, expediting the whole being to new dimensions of an embodied fantasy, exempted from the traditional shapes and arranged for new encounters with the nature of all that exists. The world is made of words,…
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Noise Pollution and the Oblivion of Nature Sound
The tranquil chorus of the natural world is in danger of being lost to today’s generation as people screen out the noises that surround them, a senior US researcher warns. Rising levels of background noise in some areas threaten to…