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 soun…
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 setti…
The Listening Academy (Book+CD)
With Miguel Buenrostro, Giordano Cruciani, Daniela Gentile, Mathias Klenner, Brandon LaBelle, Maria Frederika Malmström, Elif Gülin Soğuksu, Shlomit Strutti, Sandra Volny, Matteo Zoccolo. A collective improvisation as part of a creative research acad…
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 intr…
Radio Memory (Book+CD)
*2022 stock* Radio makes an impression, casting songs far and wide to end up on innumerable receivers, within countless ears. This instant of reception inserts a soundtrack to physical location and the encounters happening, intensifying music's abili…
Acoustic Justice : Listening, Performativity, and the Work of Reorientation
Acoustic Justice engages issues of recognition and misrecognition by mobilizing an acoustic framework. From the vibrational intensities of common life to the rhythm of bodies in movement, and drawing from his ongoing work on sound and agency, Brandon…
The Other Citizen
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 bord…
Overhearing and Interrupting
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its politic…
Room Tone
Published in November 2015. English edition, 16 x 21 cm (softcover), 112 pages (color ill.). Texts by Robin Wilson and Brandon LaBelle; interview with Brandon LaBelle by Elena Biserna. The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon L…
Live Bootleg
Edited by Yvan Etienne. Bilingual edition (English-French) 13 x 17 cm (folded poster cover). This publication provides an overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, featuring three essays and an interview, a…
Radio territories
The legacy of radio and the arts has spawned forms of radical culture, from early Modernist notions of the “Wireless Imagination” and its subsequent vernacular tongues to Acoustic Ecology’s call for “Radical Radio” based on removing the DJ, transmiss…
Site specific sound
Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle. Each installation was created as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles, an annual festival on sound practice …