Academic
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The Pleasure of Emptiness
“John Cage, or, the Pleasure of Emptiness” (1977) Roberto Calasso Translated by Joseph Sannicandro For almost twenty years I have seen John Cage booed: first in Darmstadt, where the followers of Neue Musik themselves booed, frightened by his intrusion that ruined all their Beautiful Structures (and in fact his arrival did signal the end of…
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Queer Noise
Sam Galloway and I co-wrote an article entitled “Queer Noise: Sounding the Body of Historical Trauma,” which was including in the collection Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change, edited by Sarah Raine and Catherine Strong. (Bloomsbury, 2019) “Sannicandro and Galloway uncover a fascinating aspect of the history of…
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Back to the Lab
In “Get on the Mic” Geoff Harkness argues that “the studio is essential to the culture [of rap] in ways that it is not for many other music genres,” because it has a particular function as a symbolic space of socialization, professionalization, and legitimization that is less significant in modes of music which place more…
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On the Pedagogical Organization of Record Collections
This post is a revised and expanded version, originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN as “The Problem with ‘My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection.” ———————————————————- “It would be a lowly art that allows itself to be understood all at once, whose apex can be observed by the newly initiated.” – Goethe There’s a lot to like…
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The engulfing machine of Henri Chopin
The engulfing machine of Henri Chopin By Domenico Napolitano Translated by Joseph Sannicandro Originally published December 1, 2016 on zetaesse TAGS: henri chopin, sound poetry, noise, sound body, sound factory, swallowing, stomach, nietzsche, artaud, burroughs “When I put the microphone into the mouth I have simultaneously five sounds: the air and the liquid…
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Improvised Order
Improvised Order: Hypertextual Media and Future Subjectivities This Tumblr page is based upon a seminar paper I wrote for a course on Print Culture with Prof. Andrew Piper at McGill University in 2010. I used Tumblr in order to rearrange the paragraphs into fragments that can be navigated and recombined, not unlike the supplemental chapters…
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“Radiophonic Arts and the Problem of the Stage”
An article of mine, which I developed in 2015-2016, was published in the eContact journal in 2017. Read the entire article here. Abstract: By the middle of the 20th century, composers of electronic and electroacoustic music had begun to reenvision the concert hall. Buttressed by theories of acousmatic sound articulated by Pierre Schaeffer and his…
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Review: Sound Unseen by Brian Kane
Published in the Journal of Sonic Studies: The attention to techne reveals the broader aim of the book, which is to theorize the relationship between techne and physis, technique and nature. Kane employs Kafka’s story “The Burrow,” in which a poor animal is tortured by a high-pitched noise that it cannot identify, as an alternative…
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The Other Side of the COIN COIN: Matana Roberts’ River Run Thee
We’ve been in Europe since the end of May, just now returning to our temporary home-base of Minneapolis, where working on my PhD has somewhat slowed down my more casual writing projects. I’ve only published two installments of Sound Propositions in the past year (with Mark Fell and Kate Carr), contributed occasionally to CULT MTL,…
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The Kids Are Not Alright
Read more here. Published in Vol 10 of The Carceral Notebooks. (A great honor to be included in the same table of contents as Lauren Berlant.) Samuel Galloway and Joseph Sannicandro THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT? This sound collage was assembled by layering the audio from 15 gay pornographic videos featuring older men with…
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eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s journal eContact! published my review of Martin Tétreault’s Turntable Quartet performance at Akousma 9 last fall. It’s a reworked and much improved section of my AKOUSMA review that ran at ACL, but this one was peer-reviewed and edited after I reworked it. Read it here, and check out the entire issue as…
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The Legacy of Situationist Psychogeography:Its Relational Quality and Influence on Contemporary Art
The Legacy of Situationist Psychogeography: Its Relational Quality and Influence on Contemporary Art May 2008 Download the PDF pyschoart Introduction In the time before the Industrial Revolution, cities were defined by their rivers; the spirit of a city was revealed by the ways in which its citizens interacted with this most important of resources. Imagine how…
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