// Datum | Date: 9. Juli 2010
// Zeit | Time: 20:00
// Freier Eintritt | Free admittance
// Sprache | language: English
 
Book release event
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life
Brandon LaBelle
Published by Continuum Books, New York
 
From underground environments to the home, Brandon LaBelle traces the cultural and social movements of auditory life. Acoustic Territories continues the author's interest in sonic culture and extends his earlier work, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, elaborating on understandings of sonic materiality and experience. LaBelle follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and ultimately queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation.
 
In celebration of its release, the author will present a performative reading and installation aiming for the dynamics of sound culture and acts of listening.
 
www.brandonlabelle.net
www.continuumbooks.com
 
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Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer. His work explores the space between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as creative supplements to existing conditions. He is the author of "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art" (2006) and "Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life" (2010). His work has been featured internationally, including the exhibitions and festivals Sound as Media, ICC Tokyo (2000), Bitstreams, Whitney Museum New York (2001), Pleasure of Language, Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam (2002), Undercover, Museum of Contempoary Art, Roskilde (2003), Radio Revolten, Halle (2006), Poeticas da Voce, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (2008), Tuned City, Berlin (2008), and Cut n Splice, London (2009). In addition his Prototypes for the Mobilization and Broadcast of Fugitive Sound was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello gallery, Prato (2007) and Ybakatu gallery, Curitiba (2009). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories was presented at Casa Vecina, Mexico City in 2008. He also collaborates within the collective working group, Surface Tension, and the working team, e+l.