philosophy
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Gallery Sound Caleb Kelly Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played…
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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…
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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments Cathy van Eck Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from “inaudible” technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry…
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Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari Pirkko Moisala (Editor), Taru Leppänen (Editor), Milla Tiainen (Editor), Hanna Väätäinen (Editor) This is the first volume to mobilize encounters between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the rich developments in…
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Beyond Vision: Philosophical Essays Casey O’Callaghan Beyond Vision brings together eight essays by Casey O’Callaghan. The works draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about perception, the nature of its objects, and sensory awareness through sustained attention to extra-visual and multisensory forms…
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Theorizing Sound Writing (Music/Culture) Deborah Kapchan The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup…