... and leaving behind notions of historical objectivity, the author explores connections between an early collaborative sound work of Hikosaka’s from 1972 and his works from the same period in photography and performance. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 sound performance site...

... 2024 The two tags with typewritten dates are captions that provide the raw data of chronological fact, as if to firmly fix the flow of the body’s pulse, to hold onto it, to frame it ( Fig. 2a, b ). They allude to inventory, graphically reducing the living body to a dead object even as the sound...

...Lou Mallozzi The author unpacks three sound works using heartbeats made by Imai Norio in the 1970s, connecting some of the conceptual and formal impulses of these works to the artist’s use of photography at the same time. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 sound...

...Lou Mallozzi The author created Sidewalk Standstill for Nomura as an homage to the Japanese artist Nomura Hitoshi, specifically referencing Nomura’s 1970 performative sound and photography piece Through a public phone, all is reported to 075-761-4113 that can be seen at the spot in the direction...

...Lou Mallozzi Tanaka Atsuko’s Work (Bell) from 1955 is an important and layered work that pre-figures the genre of sound art. Part of its complexity lies in the fact that there is no “original” version, and that the artist executed several iterations over several decades, remaining true...

... that now present a complicated legacy for the piece and its experience for audiences. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California 2024 sound art materiality installation Tanaka Atsuko (1932–2005) first created and exhibited Work (Bell) (hereinafter Bell ) in 1955. The piece...

...Lou Mallozzi In 1956 Murakami Saburō (1925–1996) placed a wall clock in an 80 cm cubic wooden box. This simple gesture, like many of Murakami’s simple artistic gestures, provoked a complex rethinking of the position of the audience in contemporary art and sound’s particular role in that shift...

...Tiffany Lethabo King The article uses sound—specifically Black music, traces of Mvskoke Creek ceremonial music, and sound waves generated millions of years ago during the orogeny that produced the mountains in the region—to reorient the author to her mountain climb up the infamous Stone Mountain...

...Emma W. Olson This article explores the sounds of cultural encounter and colonial violence dramatically rendered in the 13th-century Chronicle of Henry of Livonia during the Baltic Crusades. In his chronicle, Henry claims to provide an eyewitness account of the sonic weapons the Germans deployed...

... and where he sees the relationship between AI and musical creativity going in the future. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 AI music creativity Nao Tokui sound Nao Tokui is an artist, researcher, and DJ who has been finding interesting new ways of integrating...

...Mhamad Safa; Gascia Ouzounian This conversation, which took place at The Showroom, London, on March 8, 2022, brings together the sound producer and architect Mhamad Safa and the sonic theorist Gascia Ouzounian in exploring Safa’s work on sound, trauma, and acoustic jurisprudence, with a focus...

...Rafael Frumkin An essay of creative nonfiction about sound and queerness, including descriptions of trans and queer culture as they apply to the sonic arts. I got a double mastectomy in the summer of 2021, also referred to as top surgery. When they put me out, I was still unsure if I wanted...

...Malcolm Ogden This paper argues that the album/playlist LEGO White Noise , released on Spotify in 2021, can be understood in relation to various other kinds of self-care oriented audiovisual media that have proliferated online in recent years, such as ambient, sound-healing, and ASMR. Beginning...

...Miniature Malekpour This study examines the role of sound and the cultural dialogue of “transnational status” in pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, and more specifically, in the film-Farsi period. This study contributes to the literature because it mainly investigates how gender consciousness...

... the most effective option for activism and engagement. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 sound protest civil rights quiet activism The case is often described as a love story. In June of 1958, in Washington, DC, Mildred Jeter married Richard Loving. Though...

...Carter Mathes Rachel Fernandes’s essay in this issue, “Listening to Loving: Mildred Loving and the Case for Quiet Activism,” offers many openings for further contemplations of the oscillating frequencies moving between sound, the multidimensionality of being, and visual representation...

...Whitney Johnson An aesthetic controversy regarding the value of conceptual and ambient sound art opens this theoretical investigation into sensation, perception, and understanding. The contrast between valuing sound through language or listening calls on aesthetic philosophy and social...

...John F. Barber This essay considers the role of sound, as in spoken voice, in two multimedia memorials to individuals killed by violence in the United States. The first is Remembering the Dead , a memorial to victims of mass shootings from the 1880s to the present. The second is Say Their Names...

...Carter Mathes This response offers a critical engagement with and reflection on the work of photographer D. Michael Cheers, specifically his essay on sound and photography, “Listening for the Pictures: Capturing History in Real Time,” in conjunction with selections of his photographic work...

... carry a significant importance as narrative elements. Taking five music-related documentary films into account— Lot 63, Grave C (Sam Green); Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin); Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, and Jessica Joywise); The Decline of Western...