Brandon LaBelle

A remarkable exploration of how sound permeates all aspects of life - from the streets to our homes, and from shopping malls to the underground.

Sound Culture and Everyday Life

Acoustic Territories

A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.

Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance

Sonic Agency

The rise of a prominent auditory culture, reveals the degree to which sound art is lending definition to the 21st Century. And yet sound art still lacks related literature to compliment, and expand, the realm of practice. Background Noise sets out an historical overview, while at the same time shaping that history according to what sound art reveals - the dynamics of art to operate spatially, through media of reproduction and broadcast, and in relation to the intensities of communication and its contextual framework

Perspectives on Sound Art

Background Noise

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 Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics--from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states--outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.

The Other Citizen

Robin Wilson

Elena Biserna

"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.

Room Tone

Christof Migone

Edited by Christof Migone, Brandon LaBelle.

The Sonics of Language

Writing Aloud

The ongoing protest movements spanning the globe seek to challenge, revitalize and rethink political processes as well as demand economic justice. Forming into a dispersed and poignant network of struggles, the current situation reveals a global culture of hope, angst and imagination. Author and artist Brandon LaBelle has sought to engage these events by way of a diary of affiliation and reciprocation in which personal memories and cultural reflections search for remote connection, in particular, with the Arab Spring. His Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian is marked by an urgency to unsettle divides, both imaginary and physical, between west and east, Anglo and Arab, and to put into question narratives of the political. Written between February and June of 2011, the Diary functioned as a daily consideration of the intensity of events erupting around the world structurally linked to personal thoughts and memories.

Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian

Expands understandings of voice to and the poetics of gibberish showing how speech is fundamentally shaped by the complex dynamics of the mouth..

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