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Scott Sherk | Listening to:
A message from the editor: Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…
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Luigi Turra – Alea
When silence is revealed as a translucent, almost imperceptible and delicate vibratory fabric, any sonic phenomenon, even the dimmest murmur, can be felt as a yell of reality. Realities, perhaps, since they get expressed as multiplicities, ownerless storytelling; aimless, at the pace of…
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Yui Onodera – semi lattice
Sound appears as ghostly seeds of memory that eventually unfold as a universe in which there are infinite listening possibilities. Today’s compositional approaches, such as the one subtlety identified in Yui Onodera clearly expose the multi-dimensional experience of the sonic, always calling for a…
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Stephan Mathieu – Before Nostromo
Fantasy: is it beyond visual and sonic? Listening: is it beyond visual and sonic? Is listening a fantasy? What’s what is actually hidden in the sonic texture created in the inmmersive situation to which Before Nostromo leads? Very far from being conclusive,…
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josh mason – hellified irie
Poetry is more silent than sonic, because it is, above all, an act of listening. Poems are not sung as much they are heard, like the notes of a guitar, the pounding of sea waves or the endless sound of a melody’s furtive…
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autistici – temporal enhancement
Listening floods the perceptual horizons to transcend into unallocated sensory realms where the heard constructs realities in which there are no objects anymore, but diluted passages, ghosts appearing as a dynamic flux of affections that unfold the sonic imagination. It’s what Autistici develops, mental room built from…