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Liquid Borders
Samson Young Kar-fai’s latest project is prompted by the government’s 2012 decision to gradually reduce the closed area near the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border by opening it to public access. Since then the sound artist has visited the formerly restricted zone…
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VacuaMoenia, Studies on Sicilian Abandoned Soundscape
Vacuamœnia, from the latin “Empty Walls”, is an identitary and ecological sonic act aimed at the revolution of deeper meanings. Aesthetic revolution of Vacuamœnia starts from the places abandoned by man and the way they sound: a study of existing sounds and…
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imaginal acoustics: on subtle listening, sound-shapes and time
Last year I invited Kim Cascone to the university for one of his Dark Stations concerts. Dark Stations is a 42-minute piece for a meditating audience based on a 3.1 diffusion system: the listeners sit in darkness within a triangular speaker array, a sub-bass…
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The MoKS Residency An article by Jay-Dea Lopez During November-December 2013 I had the privilege of staying at the MoKS residency in the small village of Mooste, Estonia. This part of the world was only known to me through the recordings and…
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subtle listening – how artists can develop new perceptual circuits
by Kim Cascone
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errormancy: glitch as divination
“…divine by airy impressions, by the blowing of the winds, by rainbows, by circles round about the moon and stars, by mists and clouds, and by imagination in clouds and visions in the air.” – Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1) To the…