Sonic Agency Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series) by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Goldsmiths, Unversity Of London ISBN-13: 978-1-912685-95-0, ISBN: 1-912685-95-7
"Suely Rolnik gives articulation to the vibrancy Bennett speaks of by concentrating
it specifically into a notion of contemporary subjectivity , or what she terms a "
vibratile body " : Today's subjectivities : grabbed from the soil , they have the gift
of ..."
The Other Citizen by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2020 by Errant Bodies Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9978744-7-1, ISBN: 0-9978744-7-3
"Volume two in Errant Bodies' new series on transcultural poetics: struggles and utopian desires of contemporary life Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizenpresents narratives of contemporary ..."
Lexicon of the Mouth(1st Edition) Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-188-8, ISBN: 1-62356-188-4
""Lexicon of the Mouth" surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper speech." "Lexicon of the Mouth" aims for a viscous, poetic a ..."
Acoustic Territories Sound Culture and Everyday Life by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-6136-9, ISBN: 1-4411-6136-8
"Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives â€Â" it chall ..."
Background Noise, Second Edition(2nd Edition) Perspectives on Sound Art by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-62892-352-0, ISBN: 1-62892-352-0
"Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of formulating an expansive history and understanding of sound art. At ..."
Acoustic Territories, Second Edition(2nd Edition) Sound, Culture, and Everyday Life by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-3619-5, ISBN: 1-5013-3619-3
"The revised edition of Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sounding and listening, and discusses how sound studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture, street life and sonic technologies, Acoustic Territories opens up a range of cri ..."
""Writing comes up from under my skin," writes Brandon LaBelle. "It creeps into my sleep, to tense my fingers; I am plunged into it, as a space for capturing a new voice, for figuring a new body: to take an empty page and to fill it, with the day to day." LaBelle's work as an artist and theorist focuses on the interrelation between the sonic arts, popular culture and theory, using mainly site-specific sound performances. The second volum ..."
Background Noise Perspectives on Sound Art by BrandonLabelle Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1845-6, ISBN: 0-8264-1845-7
"Background Noise follows the development of sound as an artistic medium and illustrates how sound is put to use within modes of composition, installation, and performance. While chronological in its structure, Brandon LaBelle's book is informed by spatial thinking - weaving architecture, environments, and the specifics of location into the work of sound, with the aim of formulating an expansive Historia and understanding of sound art. A ..."
"Performance artists address the political possibilities of creative agencyThis artistic research project addresses the challenges of global life today. In particular, it considers the creative constructs and poetic imaginaries found in articulations of contemporary agency and argues for a deeper engagement with what Elena Loizidou terms the “dreamwork” underpinning our political selves. Dreamwork is cast as the basis for mobilizing new ..."
"This book engages the creative and critical strategies at play in works of recent Chilean art that emerge from a reflection on the politics of invisibility: how the operations of the seen and the unseen are understood to perform equally within the material realities of Chilean society. Stemming from two exhibitions and seminars held in Bergen, Norway and Santiago de Chile, curated and organized by Soledad García Saavedra and Brandon LaB ..."
"Room Tone was initiated by artist Brandon LaBelle to examine the relationship between sound and architecture. LaBelle sent field recordings of his apartment to 20 architects, designers and artists, each of whom was invited to construct a physical model of the apartment based solely on these recordings. This publication includes documentation of the architectural renderings, essays, an interview with LaBelle and a CD of the recordings."
"The latest Surface Tension gathers the fruits of the Manual project, a collaborative sound-art venture undertaken by six international artists. It includes a randomly chosen CDby one of the contributors."
"For the project documented in this volume, Brandon LaBelle invited people from around the world to send in radio memories--of songs overheard at special moments in their lives. Radio Memory contains contributions by Bastien Gallet, Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz and others, as well as a CD of audio works by LaBelle."
"Continuing the work initiated in Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, this second in the Supplement series engages questions of location and performative interventionist practices through essays and creative projects. Probing the intersection of art and architecture, Surface Tension No. 2 offers a critical glance at recent urban planning policies in China and a history of "participatory" architecture. It includes temporary architectu ..."
"The product of an international collective of artists, architects and writers who create collaborative projects and publications, this third edition of Surface Tension's Supplement series documents three years of artistic research, site-specific work and location-based practices in Curitiba, Brazil--providing an in-depth exploration of the city's economically marginal favela dwellers, who venture throughout the public spaces of Curitiba ..."
"This first monograph on sound artist Christof Migone tracks his work since the mid-80s: a weaving together of multiple media, from radio to telephone to digital objects, that has formed a stunning and highly dynamic practice, one that combines an acute sonic sensibility with performative usages of the body, video and voice."
""From Gordon Matta-Clark to Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman to Alison Knowles, the question of site locates itself in issues of public space, at the intersection of the imagined and the real, at the juncture of performance and architectural production. By anthologizing essays, documents, and interviews by leading critics, historians, and artists on issues of site-specificity, conceptualism, feminism, and architecture practice, Surface Ten ..."
"A collaborative sound-art project by artists from Europe, North America and Japan, Social Music documents a 2001 series of broadcasts on Kunstradio in Vienna. Brandon LaBelle, Minoru Sato and others were commissioned to question, rethink and reinvent radiophonic space as an aural, social and architectural infrastructure. "I wanted very much to create a conceptual framework for organizing the works not so much around making music within ..."
Lexicon of the Mouth Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary (Hardback) by BrandonLabelle Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-62356-026-3, ISBN: 1-62356-026-8
""Lexicon of the Mouth" surveys the oral cavity as the central channel by which self and surrounding are brought into relation. Questions of embodiment and agency, attachment and loss, incorporation and hunger, locution and the non-sensical are critically examined. In doing so, LaBelle emphasizes the mouth as a vital conduit for negotiating "the foundational narrative of proper speech." "Lexicon of the Mouth" aims for a viscous, poetic a ..."
Leif Elggren Death Travels Backwards: Video Works, 1999-2009 by Leif Elggren, BrandonLabelle Hardcover, 12 Pages, Published 2011 by Errant Bodies Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9827439-2-8, ISBN: 0-9827439-2-0
"Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren (born 1950) is one of the most constantly innovative conceptual artists working in the combined fields of audio and video. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has numerous audio releases to his credit; this DVD-booklet supplies an important overview of his work."