lawrence english
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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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infinite grain 12: lawrence english
[infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] Sound is the soul of every ritual. Listening, rather than…
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lawrence english – wilderness of mirrors
Sounds are fantasy, ruins in a stream of history in which listening is a mere faint mirage left by a precipitous concatenation of resonances found within transition, dispossession and expropriation. In a careful approach to the sonic continuum, Lawrence English immerses listening…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Field Recording, by Lawrence English
Great article by Lawrence English at FACT: A Beginner’s guide to field recording In Peter Szendy’s provocative book Listening, he presents two related questions: “Can one make a listening listened to? Can I transmit my listening, unique as it is?” It’s…