Sound Research

"Recomposing the soundscape of the intensive care unit"

"9 Sonic Artists to Know"

Italian sound art blog/magazine

Having students understand ideas of expansiveness, asymmetry, and non-linearity as central to black cultural expression and critique-even as artists refuse to sacrifice an expressed political commitment to black resistance-begins to suggest ways for students to contemplate the intersection of identity politics with the unexpected, fantastic elements of expression that lie outside of more recent flattened diagnoses of black nationalism."

"After hearing about the murder of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager who was shot to death by George Zimmerman in a gated community in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012, I grappled with the urge to grab my godsons, nephews, cousins, brothers, and husband and never let go. I grappled with the Du Boisian question of the color-line, redressing it to consider "what does it feel like to be not only a problem but a target?" With these thoughts in my mind, I especially grappled with listening to the audio records of the 911 calls documenting the death of Trayvon Martin, just released late Friday March 16thby the Sanford police department."

"post by Kristin Moriah looks at Du Bois's novel Dark Princess, and explores the relationship between sound and freedom in the text."

A true state of listening cannot be acquired by force. The order to listen - LISTEN! we all have heard and experienced it - guarantees a closing off, a turning away, a non-listening, possibly even a permanent disturbance in our once open and trusting listening channels. It is perceived like any sound that annoys, disrupts, hurts, or injures: we cringe, we try to block it out, might fight it, may want to get rid of it, but we will not listen.

"scene from a movie by peter liechti (www.peterliechti.ch) about the swiss performance artist roman signer (1996)"

"According to a common assumption, scientific practice is based primarily on a rational approach. Science stands for logic and clarity, while art is considered to be more chaotic, emotional, sometimes even irrational and therefore often less understandable. Voegelin shows us that it is not at all necessary to look at one from the other, but that the opportunities lie in the connection to discover and enable listening"

Sophie Landres (Stony Brook University) leads a discussion with artist A.K. Burns on the topic of queer sound, featuring a sonic contribution from artist Jules Gimbrone. Psychoacoustics Session I was presented by AVANT.org at the ALLGOLD MoMA PS1 Print Shop on May 30, 2015.

A site that accumulates NYPD police scanners. Created to aid protesters.

"Wild Concordanse is this sensitive dialogue that dances between the animal and plant worlds. Lulled by the delicate curves of a perpetually moving nature, the exhibition is lived and revealed, in harmony, through the universe of two women artists, Karine Bonneval and Sarah Battaglia."

the French artist Karine Bonneval was an artist in residence in a lab that focused on soil biodiversity. One of the questions she asked the scientists was "What sounds do fungi make as they grow through soil?"

"Ears are a peculiarly individual piece of anatomy. Those little fleshy seashells, whether they stick out or hang low, can be instantly recognizable in family portraits. And they aren't just for show."

"Researchers in Singapore developed a system that's sort of like noise-canceling headphones for your whole apartment."

"24 hours with sounds from artists, made in their daily work and life during spring 2020. A different artist every hour (based on CEST). For a good experience of the hours, we recommend the use of headphones."

"Sound Garden is a 16 inch high, 15 foot square platform of wood squares that recreates a section of a gymnasium floor, or a high-finish dance floor. The parquet is framed by a three foot wide planter of white pansies in full bloom. Suspended above the platform, in the manner of a public address system, are four out-sized black speakers. The speakers emit a three-phase, four-track audio component of verbal instructions for dance routines, the bouncing of a basketball on the floor of the gymnasium, tap dancing and the swiping of an eraser on a blackboard. The work thus takes the form of a rather peculiar hybrid structure with visual, auditory and olfactory dimensions."

"Depending on when one visits Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark, the current exhibition by the visual artist Gary Simmons at Southern Exposure, one will experience two very different, equally worthwhile shows. A visitor attending the show during regular gallery hours on any given day will face a work of installation art: An impressive tower of speakers sits, along with a boxy old television, on a low plywood stage."