Thinking
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Songs from the Caves
Significant evidence now exists for the importance of sound in prehistory and research in this area has progressed over the past 30 years, with a number of archaeological finds that are thought to be musical instruments found in caves associated…
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Curious Quarterly: Noise
Royal BC Museum has published the second issue of Curious Quarterly, dedicated to explore the theme of noise. Noise gets a bad rap when perceived only as irritation. But what if, instead, we consider Noise as a signature of multiple…
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Points of Listening #4. Magic and Loss: an evening with David Toop Review by Cheryl Tipp On a sunny Wednesday evening a group of listeners came together to join David Toop in an auditory exploration of mystical objects and ancestral…
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subtle listening – how artists can develop new perceptual circuits
by Kim Cascone
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errormancy: glitch as divination
“…divine by airy impressions, by the blowing of the winds, by rainbows, by circles round about the moon and stars, by mists and clouds, and by imagination in clouds and visions in the air.” – Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1) To the…
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infinite sound in the silence of a grain
“We can see that beneath the level of the note lies the realm of micro-sound, of sound particles. These are the building blocks of complex sounds. Like the quantum world of the quarks, leptons, gluons, and bosons, the micro-sonic domain…