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Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Mack Hagood For almost sixty years, media technologies have promised users the ability to create sonic safe spaces for themselves—from bedside white noise machines to Beats by Dre’s “Hear What You Want”…
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Sonic Intimacy: Voice, Species, Technics (or, How To Listen to the World) Dominic Pettman Sonic Intimacy asks us who—or what—deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own species,…
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The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music (Refiguring American Music) Nina Sun Eidsheim In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the…
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Beyond Unwanted Sound Marie Thompson Noise is so often a ‘stench in the ear’ – an unpleasant disturbance or an unwelcome distraction. But there is much more to noise than what greets the ear as unwanted sound. *Beyond Unwanted Sound…
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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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Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art
Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury. From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches…