Category Archives: Sound Arts

Listening connects us to our acoustic environment. “Listening is directing attention to what is heard, gathering meaning and deciding on action”, “we listen in order to interpret our world and experience meaning.” (Oliveros, Quantum Listening). The fields of soundscape composition … Continue reading →

I have been really interested recently in the politics of noise and silence. I have been particularly inspired by Marie Thompson’s writing ‘Gossips, Sirens, Hi-Fi Wives: Feminizing the Threat of Noise’ (Resonances, 2013) and Thompson’s proposal of “an alternative politics … Continue reading →

John Cage’s body of work has often been used to “define what constitutes “experimental” music in the broadest sense. This has worked to deny the influence of comparably innovative music practices by women and people of colour” (Rodgers, T. 2010, … Continue reading →

I found LINKED, a piece of sound art by Graeme Miller, really interesting as the dimensions to it felt layered. In the first layer there were simply the physical yet invisible radio waves, communicating between transmitters and our headsets across … Continue reading →

Visiting Longplayer, at Trinity Buoy Lighthouse in East London, evoked, for me, a sense of ‘solastalgia’ – “the grief of witnessing environmental change in a place you still inhabit”. The feeling that over our lifetimes – just a tiny part … Continue reading →

Andrea Lockwood’s piece ‘Piano Burning’ (1968) was an attempt to “record fire” (Rodgers, 2010). She put a microphone inside the piano and recorded for as long as possible, as long as the microphone lasted. She then wrote a fluxus score … Continue reading →