what we immerse ourselves in

PEER article15.11.2017

Turntable materialities

This article argues that as historic avant-gardes made visible the destruction of art, so modified records attempt to make audible the destruction of sound.

PEER audio paper15.11.2017

Listening and not listening to voices

This audio paper considers how new listenings might lead to a richer, more inclusive sound art, that can embrace and celebrate difference.

By Cathy Lane
PEER audio paper15.11.2017

Collisions

Addressing the collision of the tactile and the sonic, the audio paper discusses how sonic frontiers are exploited and transgressed in the installation “Kabusha Radio Remix”.

By Kwame Phillips & Debra Spitulnik Vidali
PEER audio paper15.11.2017

How to (re) do(o) things with sounds

In this audio paper and in the companion video paper Logan discusses sonic materiality through an inclusion of performative means.

By Kevin Logan

PEER article15.11.2017

Diagram for invisibility

The article suggests a “diagrammatic” reading of the notion of the acousmatic, where an experiential tension unfolds based on what can and cannot be seen, in relation to what is heard.

By Rune Søchting

PEER audio paper15.11.2017

Origo

This audio paper documents the climbing of a pyramid, performing and discussing issues such as sound as evidence, networked ontology and agency, facts and materiality.

By Morten Søndergaard
PEER audio paper15.11.2017

The audibility of rebellion versus nationalism

Using sounds of political chanting from Turkey, the paper shows how political orientation changes the inflection of chant, reflecting its societal positioning and purpose.

By Jeremy Woodruff
essay09.11.2017

A sonic time capsule

'A Sonic Time Capsule – a small instruction manual explaining how to realize such a thing' by Andrea Zarza Canova.

By Andrea Zarza Canova

review06.10.2017

Downfall – A journey to the underworld and back again

Nicolai Worsaae: ‘Downfall’. © Søren Meisner

Nicolai Worsaa's opera 'Downfall – A journey to the underworld and back again' takes a fresh look at the legend of Orpheus’s journey to the underworld and wrestles the position of decision-making privilege away from the man.

By Andrew Mellor

interview27.09.2017

Gender and social relations in New Music: Tackling the octopus

Juliana Hodkinson interviews anthropologist / cultural theorist Georgina Born on gender and other social relations in contemporary music.

By Juliana Hodkinson
reportage20.09.2017

Hoffnung 3000 – Experimenting with an Anonymous Community

Shanti Suki Osman visited the festival Hoffnung 3000, which took place in Berlin on 24th-26th August.

By Shanti Suki Osman
reportage03.09.2017

All the in-between spaces

Maya Shenfeld reports from this year's documenta 14.

By Maya Shenfeld