sonic arts

  • Speculative Noise and Premonitory Matter: An Interview with Jorge Barco

    Speculative Noise and Premonitory Matter: An Interview with Jorge Barco

    (Translated from the original published at Sonic Field in Spanish) To ask about the borders between science, art and speculation is ambiguous. Although the categories that we have created over the years have forced us to separate the disciplines and…

  • Translating Ambience

    Translating Ambience

    Translating Ambiance is an exhibition that emerges from an Australian Research Council grant (DECRA) awarded to Jordan Lacey entitled Translating Ambiance: restorative sound design for urban soundscapes (2019 – 21). The research aims to discover a methodology for translating the ambiance of natural places into…

  • Sonic Continuum

    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…

  • Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

    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…

  • Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…

  • Two New Bloomsbury Handbooks: Sound Art and Anthropology of Sound

    Two New Bloomsbury Handbooks: Sound Art and Anthropology of Sound

    Bloomsbury Academic is about to release two new handbooks, one this month, the other in September. Both are now available for pre-order. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art Edited by Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze, 592 pages, available 02-20-2020…