Listening

  • lawrence english – wilderness of mirrors

    lawrence english – wilderness of mirrors

    Sounds are fantasy, ruins in a stream of history in which listening is a mere faint mirage left by a precipitous concatenation of resonances found within transition, dispossession and expropriation. In a careful approach to the sonic continuum, Lawrence English immerses listening…

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Field Recording, by Lawrence English

    A Beginner’s Guide to Field Recording, by Lawrence English

    Great article by Lawrence English at FACT: A Beginner’s guide to field recording In Peter Szendy’s provocative book Listening, he presents two related questions: “Can one make a listening listened to? Can I transmit my listening, unique as it is?” It’s…

  • Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening

    Acoustic Ecology and Ethical Listening

    Interesting blog post at Center for Humans & Nature by Eric Leonardson on ethics, listening and acoustic ecology. If we are to find a way out of the current impasse, learning how to listen and developing an ethic of listening may be…

  • juan carlos vasquez – collages

    juan carlos vasquez – collages

    Music is scaled in time, placing audible realities in reductive diminutive forms but also in complex reflections in which bodies constitute vast landscapes that provide an infinite appreciation of matter and field. By combining some field recordings and samples from classical music performances, Juan Carlos Vasquez, breaks…

  • Soundscapes & Sound Identities – 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape

    Soundscapes & Sound Identities – 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape

    Soundscapes & Sound Identities, 7th international FKL symposium on soundscape. Symposium, concerts, Installations and videos at CASTELLO DI BESENO, Besenello (TN), ITALY | 22-24 May 2015 There exists doubtlessly an acoustic identity of places, even in those which, due to the increasing…

  • Audible Silence: Jez Riley French at TEDxHull

    Audible Silence: Jez Riley French at TEDxHull

    Interesting talk by Jez Riley French at TEDxHull in 2013. Jez Riley French is fascinated and passionate about the infinite detail and expanding vistas of life around us, its sights and sounds, often overlooked or hidden. His creative output focuses…