Ecologies of Noise
Here’s the draft / structure of a paper I gave at Sounding Out 5 in Bournemouth this week: As Douglas Kahn says in Noise, Water, Meat, ‘Noise is the forest of everything’.[1] As the practitioners and...
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The Acoustic Community
R. Murray Schafer presents a notion of the acoustic community in his book The Soundscape, wherein in it is described as a relational space defined along acoustical lines as much as the geographical,...
View ArticleNature Recording and The Broadband World
Some notes on Francisco López and Nature recording: Francisco López’s recordings present to the ear nature in general more than anything specifically natural. In his recordings we hear sounds that can...
View ArticleAny Place Whatever: Schizophonic Dislocation and the Sound of Space in General
My article ‘Any Place Whatever: Schizophonic Dislocation and the Sound of Space in General‘ has just been published by Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture. Abstract Distinct from the tendency for...
View ArticleThe Tone of Prime Unity
Below is an outline of the workshop I’ll be leading in Brussels (22nd – 28th March) at Tuned City 2013. This workshop explores the subliminal influence of acoustic space upon citizens. Participants...
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Resonance and the Apparatus of Capture
Notes from Tuned City: Apparatus of Capture: Resonance, sustain, drone. The encounter must be sustained, drawn out, for it to “take hold”, to bed down, to adequately function as a means or mechanism...
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Ideas of Noise and Nature
Outline of a Temple of Tyranny: Envelope from The Idea of Sound (2013). Notes for my talk at Noise in and as Music. These notes are intended to help structure a discussion around a work in progress...
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