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Why we will not take part in the Phonurgia Nova – Field Recording award
Open letter to Phonurgia Nova and the Fondation François Sommer, July 2016. This year the Phonurgia Nova competition is added a new category with the Field Recording award. At first, we welcomed the news as a token of recognition for…
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Adam Basanta’s Curtain, An Installation Made of 240 Pairs of Ear Buds
Adam Basanta’s new work explores a microsonic network imagined as a sonic refugee: “The ubiquitous white earbud headphone creates an interior sonic environment into which one can retreat from the external world. Within this personalized sonic bubble, the headphones function…
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Ambient sound: presence, embodiment and the spatial turn
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Field Recording as Art Form, an Introduction by Ableton
Ableton has published an interesting introduction to the art of field recording, focusing specially on its use as an art form, exploring some concepts, sharing some sounds and chatting with two well-known artists dedicated to the art of phonography, Chris Watson…
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The Senses & Society Special Issue: Anthropology of Sound
Published by Routledge, edited by Michael Bull and David Howes, and featuring contributions of several researchers, the new special issue of The Senses & Society journal explores the notion of anthropology of sound from diverse perspectives. “This special issue of The Senses &…
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Parallax Special Issue, Call for Papers: Sounding / Thinking
Parallax journal, published by Routledge is doing an open call for papers to be published in a special issue, dedicated to explore sound studies. Deadline is 31st December 2016. Initial submission of an abstract of 250 words, pointing to essays…