Ora 19 : Against Interpretation : 26 February
Ora 19 : Against Interpretation
Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin
26 February 2015
8pm
Resonance104.4fm
In Against Interpretation Daniela Cascella and Salomé Voegelin borrow the title from Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking 1964 essay to read, play and perform a number of texts and sounds in close sequence and then start a conversation. Mike Kelley with Sonic Youth’s Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile performance and an excerpt from Coil’s The Angelic Conversation featuring one of Shakespeare’s Sonnets are juxtaposed with words by Georges Bataille and Clarice Lispector, not to interpret according to given rules or expectations, but to offer a plurality of openings and possibilities into listening to sound and writing after sound.
Finding My Voice While Listening to John Cage
As with the whole of this series very interesting and well worth reading all the articles.
Editor’s Note: Today I bring you installment #4 of Sounding Out!‘s blog forum on gender and voice! Last week Regina Bradley put the soundtrack of Scandal in conversation with race and gender. The week before I talked about what it meant to have people call me, a woman of color, “loud.” That post was preceded by Christine Ehrick‘s selections from her forthcoming book, on the gendered soundscape. We have two more left! In the next few weeks we’ll have A.O. Roberts with synthesized voices and gender, and lastly Robin James with an analysis of how ideas of what women should sound like have roots in Greek philosophy.
This week guest writer and professor Art Blake shares with us a personal essay. He talks about how his experience shifting his voice from feminine to masculine as a transgender man intersects with his work on John Cage. So, lean in…
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IT’S THE CHINESE YEAR OF THE GOAT
NEWS FROM THE TWITTERSPHERE
ACL 2014: Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape
Field recordings and soundscapes do much more than reflect the sounds of nature. They also delve into local culture and artificial sound environments; they serve as travelogues, historical statements, and calls to political action. An environment once captured is never the same, and some are disappearing.
An exemplary field recording captures a specific place lodged in a fragment of time. An exemplary soundscape edits sources to tell a larger story, opening a window to let the light in. Each sub-genre serves as reflection and metaphor. When combined, the ten releases on this list offer a fine cross-section of sound that is available in the outer world as well, if only we would listen.
And now, in alphabetical order, A Closer Listen presents the Top Ten Field Recording and Soundscape Releases of 2014.
Chris Silver T ~ Salty Spots (Impulsive Habitat)
A simple idea becomes an elegant meditation on memory as…
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FEMINATRONIC DISCOVERS – BLEVIN BLECTUM
A recommendation is to listen to this through headphones : )
PoL # 13 Audient
Hope I am not too late to reblog this : /
With Viv Corringham
Date: Wednesday 11th March 2015
Time: 18:30
Venue: GV Art London, W1U 6LY Directions
Free but spaces are limited. To book please email: markpeterwright@gmail.com
Audient (adjective) listening; paying attention
This session will be a collaborative sound making performance, created by the participants. There will be no fixed audience; each of us will shift between the two roles of performer and audience, aiming to spend as much time listening as playing. We will move freely around the gallery between the four rooms and stairs. Each of these five areas will contain a one-word written instruction to the performers as a focus for improvisation and in order to create five distinct sound worlds. Those in the role of audience are encouraged to respond to the music with a word, phrase or drawing. These documents will then become instructions for the next performers in that space. In this way, during…
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21.11. // Tipp Berlin: Die RAW CHICKS Reihe feiert Zweijähriges
My German is rusty but a few clicks and I finding another interesting artist
Seth Kim-Cohen
Really interesting reading and worth being side-tracked from other things
Seth Kim-Cohen is an artist, musician and critic. He is currently a full-time visiting artist at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has presented artworks at venues spanning the cultural spectrum from CBGBs to Tate Modern. His writing has been published in magazines, newspapers, and journals in Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. He is the author of In The Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art, Continuum, 2009 and One Reason To Live: Conversations About Music, Errant Bodies, 2006. His latest book, Against Ambience is published by Bloomsbury. He also blogs at Voice of Broken Neck. For comprehensive info visit: www.kim-cohen.com
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ER. We’re here primarily to talk about your new book Against Ambience, can you briefly outline some of its main themes/topics.
SKC. Against Ambience is an example of an endangered species – a book of good…
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