artist/ experimental composer from a rock music background; Works with real-time sound, reticent to what it means to record a sound. Interested in space separation uses ready-mades, interested in technology (entanglement)? The Loudest Sound In the Room Experienced Very Quietly -loudness as a conceptual sound experience as opposed to physical sound experience. A Room Listening… Continue reading Sound Arts Lecture Series (Week 6) – Adam Basanta
Category: Sound Studies and Aural Cultures
Ghosts and Hauntology
Some notes and discussion around the essay ‘Digital Ghosts’: Voice and Migratory Hauntings, written by Nermin Saybasili. There are a lot of ideas on the audio visual, how images and sound work together, but for now I’m just going to focus on the ‘ghosts’. The first few pages focus on the viewpoint I am looking… Continue reading Ghosts and Hauntology
The Acoustic Mirror, Kaja Silverman
The notion that cinema is able to deliver “real” sounds is an extension of that powerful Western episteme, extending from Plato to Hélène Cixous, which identifies the voice with proximity and the here and now—of a metaphysical tradition which defines speech as the very essence of presence. (p.43) fetishistic value which a surprising number of… Continue reading The Acoustic Mirror, Kaja Silverman
Voice for Performance
A few weeks ago I joined an evening class at the Royal School for Speech and Drama, Voice for Performance. For many reasons. Recalling last year’s experience with the radio element assignment where recording ourselves was required and what a struggle that turned out to be, I wish for this year’s audio paper to be… Continue reading Voice for Performance
Language (English) as Fetish?
Few months ago I stumbled upon this paragraph in Olga Tokarciuk’s Flights: The Tongue Is the Strongest Muscle There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us – we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then… Continue reading Language (English) as Fetish?