Peripheries—Subnature, Phantom Memory, and Dirty Listening
“The theme of relationality has been central to mapping the historical and theoretical developments of sound art throughout Background Noise. I’ve been particularly concerned to underscore sound art as a practice (or field of practices) whose strategies are often focused on relating sound to additional materials, places, and persons; to expand our perspective onto the world through a deepening of the listening sense. The medium of sound seems to inspire such relational approaches and concerns; as if sound is already unfolding a broader horizon, leading us to heighten our attention to the proximate as well as the distant, to what is present as well as the shimmering trace of what is no longer there.”
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From Background Noise (Second Edition) Perspectives on Sound Art By Brandon LaBelle