Thinking
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Expanded Listening: An Interview with Francisco López
Francisco López needs no introduction, but let’s take the risk. I guess an introduction to his work is not something he would really prefer, as his perspective is actually fed by avoiding being defined, closed or schematised in a singular point. Similar to Pythagoras, López…
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The post-digital condition – nomadism, fluidity and micromaterialism towards listening in the contemporary age
Originally published at Italian Magazine Blow-up. Translated by Laura Domínguez. “The digital revolution is over” It’s almost fifteen years now since Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, declared the trigger effect of radical transformation generated by digital…
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Three New Books: Voices of the Wild, The Tone of Our Times, Sounding the Limits of Life
Below are three new books on sound, two already out and one for november (pre-order available). Voices of the Wild – Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes, by Bernie Krause. Yale University Press | Amazon Since 1968, Bernie…
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New Book: Thresholds of Listening – Sound, Technics, Space
Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective…
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Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard
Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead…
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Listening to the Processes that Shape the World: An Interview with John Grzinich
John Grzinich is passionate about sound and listening. Rather than just being someone who merely ‘works’ with those elements, he is deeply involved in the actual experience, placing the listening realm in a very important spot in his life, as…
