fast forward a few centuries! sound making today Golan Levin's Telesymphony: a composer who was inspired to use cellular phones. during performances he would call the audiences phones and they would ring creating the music composition. Marek Choloniewski and Jeremy Wood: a Polish composer who based his composition on the car drawings of Wood. here he used... Continue Reading →

the sound of the net: what is the sound of the net and what can we do with it? consider these elements - glitches, jitter, feedback, latency. Kim Cascone: an electronic musicians and wrote the text 'the aesthetics of failure', describing how sometimes the most interesting things often happen by accident. the speed of the... Continue Reading →

world music: what does it mean? the term came about when trying to market Paul Simon's Graceland in the 1980s. its a commercial term and erases differences from around the world - all bundled together under this term. world music 2.0: with the increasing availability of recording and music making equipment, people start to make... Continue Reading →

hungry listening: sounds connected to consumerism so listening could be looked at in terms of colonialism and consumerism. many decolonial thinkers insist that we cannot only think of the human in this regard - the human is part of nature and produces an anti-western mindset. taking the sole focus off the human is central to... Continue Reading →