aesthetics
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Listening and Polyphony – Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics has published a new issue dedicated to “Listening and Polyphony. Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art”, with 186 pages and contributions of 15 authors. “Listening and Polyphony: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Arts,” a special issue of The Polish Journal of…
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Sonic Continuum
Curated by Sofia Lemos and assisted by Ryan Kearney, Sonic Continuum is a programme and research project at Nottingham Contemporary, dedicated to investigate “practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for…
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Manifesto for future ambient
Composer and ROOM40 commander Lawrence English has published at FACT an interesting retrospective of ambient as genre, aesthetic, philosophy, etc, including at the end a beautiful manifesto entitled “12 notes on future ambient”: Ambient is a music of lived moments. Ambient…
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Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture David Cecchetto Ludic Dreaming uses (sometimes fictional) dreams as a method for examining sound and contemporary technoculture’s esoteric exchanges, refusing both the strictures of visually dominated logic and the celebratory tone…
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Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic Curtis Roads Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and…
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Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear: Vol 2 Brandon LaBelle & Claudia Martinho With the publication of its first volume in 1999, Site of Sound established itself as the critical voice for current trends in sound art and…