“We must enlarge and enrich more and more the domain of musical sounds. … This need and this tendency can be totally realised only through the joining and substituting of noises to and for musical sounds. “ (Russolo 1913, translated by Robert Filliou, 1967) Dear Fellow Recordists and Noisemakers! Monday 11th March marks an auspicious…
Today is an auspicious day! One hundred years ago today, futurist artist and musician Luigi Russolo published the Art of Noises manifesto as a letter to fellow composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. It is a document that has resonated down the last century and still has revolutionary potential today. “We must replace the limited variety of…
Reflecting on several installation works presented at last month’s MONA FOMA (Festival of Music and Art), this post will consider works by Susan Philipsz, Robin Fox, and Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann in terms of ‘hearing in sound’. In my previous post, I introduced Tim Ingold’s proposition that the listener is positioned ‘in sound’. This…
The first session of Day II is centered around the definition and practices of ‘Recording the Urban Field’. Peter Cusack is first to introduce a recent experience as artist-in-residence in Berlin, and to point out just how much inhabiting a city for the first time had enhanced his aural awareness and attraction to local sound…
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