Listening
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New Books from Bloomsbury: Gallery Sound, Immanence and Immersion
Bloomsbury has two new books in their music/sound studies academic series: Gallery Sound by Calleb Kelly Bloomsbury / Amazon Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art…
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Evental Aesthetics: Sound Art and Environment
The latest issue of Evental Aesthetics is dedicated to sound art and environment. Guest editor is Gascia Ouzounian. These are the contents: Editorial. Rethinking Acoustic Ecology: Sound Art and Environment The Noisy-Nonself: Towards A Monstrous Practice Of More-Than-Human Listening, by…
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Happy World Listening Day 2017!
Once in a year World Listening Project proposes a day for gathering around the act of listening. As we told some weeks ago, this year’s celebration is a tribute to Pauline Oliveros and the main topic is based on her ideas: “Sometimes…
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David Toop: Sinister Resonance, Full Lecture @ MALBA, Argentina
English musician, writer and curator David Toop was recently in Buenos Aires Argentina at MALBA giving a lecture on his ideas around listening, sound, performance and some specific explorations from his books, specially Sinister Resonance. The event was organized by…
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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…
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Audio Culture, Second Edition Adds Twenty-five Essays
‘Audio Culture: readings in modern music‘ is probably one of the most crucial readings for anyone interested in the sonic culture of our days. It mixes everything but proposes a variety of clever routes for studying the contemporary panorama around aurality,…