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haptic – excess of vision
In the concrete (in)substantiality of sounds, all categories tend to be fuzzy, vague and useless. The invisible experience reveals the inconsistency of the listening phenomena in regard to common adjectives given to other sensory objects, here offering a successive fluid…
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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…
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Leonardo Music Journal, Call for for Papers – The Politics of Sound Art
For Volume 25 of Leonardo Music Journal we are soliciting articles (papers of up to 3,000 words) and shorter statements (750-1,000 words) that address the role of politics in the creation and dissemination of music and related sonic arts, especially…
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Echoing the Otherworld
Our reader Gautam Pemmaraju, who is also columnist at the great 3quarksdaily blog, has pointed me to a great post he published some months ago, dedicated to explore reverb and echo effects from a mysterious and interesting approach. The whispering gallery…
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A Book On Listening
‘On Listening‘, book edited by Angus Carlyle & Cathy Lane (authors of ‘In The Field‘) and published at October 28 by Uniform Books. You can get it at the official site. Also recommended is this nice review Cheryl Tipp just…