Listening

  • Exploring Abandoned Soundscapes, An Interview with VacuaMoenia

    Exploring Abandoned Soundscapes, An Interview with VacuaMoenia

    VacuaMoenia is a team dedicated to soundscape exploration and established in Italy by Fabio R. Lattuca and Pietro Bonanno. With the premise of sonically navigating across abandoned places in Sicily, they have been developing a wide variety of interesting practices,…

  • Layered Memories: Searching for Sound

    Layered Memories: Searching for Sound

    Nice documentary by Red Bull Music Academy on the sonic exploration of Yosi Horikawa. It’s clear that Yosi Horikawa is not only obsessed with music, but sound itself. The Japanese producer consistently incorporates field recordings into his tracks to vibrant…

  • chihei hatakeyama – winter storm

    chihei hatakeyama – winter storm

    It’s fascinating to hear how the ethereal condition of sound is able to reflect the ephemeral and subtle fibers of reality. At some listening states, there’s no matter, no space-time, not even a listener; just pure sound. Chihei Hatakeyama approaches to these ghostly…

  • Sounding Spaces: sonic explorations and interventions

    Sounding Spaces: sonic explorations and interventions

    Sounding Spaces: sonic explorations and interventions, a 5 day workshop by John Grzinich held during Tsonami 2013, in Valparaiso Chile with Eamon Sprod, Andrés Rivera F, Guely Morató, Michel Poblete Montoya and Sebastian Vega. While most of us have developed…

  • spatiality in acousmatic music, by denis smalley

    spatiality in acousmatic music, by denis smalley

    CIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music. Denis Smalley, City University, UK / 23 January 2014 – Tanna Schulich Hall.

  • richard ginns – fall, rise

    richard ginns – fall, rise

    Listening is an act of letting go. Sound is vast, an oceanic sense. Recording and composing are sublime arts, as “Fall, Rise” by Richard Ginns perfectly suggests; a work deeply touched by a sense of loneliness and fear but actually filled with…