Brandon Labelle
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural frictions. He is the author of "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art" (Continuum 2006) and co-editor of the "Surface Tension" (Errant Bodies) series. His recent work "prototypes for the mobilization and broadcast of fugitive sound" was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato. He teaches at the University of Copenhagen and is currently developing projects on auditory design, emotional geographies and street cultures.
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural frictions. He is the author of "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art" (Continuum 2006) and co-editor of the "Surface Tension" (Errant Bodies) series. His recent work "prototypes for the mobilization and broadcast of fugitive sound" was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato. He teaches at the University of Copenhagen and is currently developing projects on auditory design, emotional geographies and street cultures.
Sonic Agency - Sounds And Emergent Forms Of Resistance (Book)
*2024 stock* A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic though…
Dirty Ear
Brandon LaBelle's Dirty Ear was recorded and produced over the last year using dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas. Composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities. Initially tracks 1-4 were composed for the installation work Prototypes for the mobilization and broadcast of fugitive sound shown at the Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato.
Alien Phenomenology (Book+CD)
Listening as the basis for social, bodily and passionate movement and transformation. Are we not moved by the things we hear? These energetic intrusions and ambiences that touch the skin, vibrate the air, evoke relations. Is there an alien force intrinsic to sonic experience and the currents of sound? Currents that pass across subjects and objects, and that give way to a multiplicity of rhythms, vocalities, gestures, scrapings. The work circles around listening as the basis for movement and tran…