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Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method

Barton, Justin
Kronic, Maya B.
Goodman, Steve

Paperback

Series: Urbanomic / Redactions

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1915103126
ISBN13: 9781915103123
Publisher: Urbanomic
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Explorations of the audio essay as medium and method.

With contributors including Justin Barton, Angus Carlyle, Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Robin Mackay, Paul Nataraj, and Iain Sinclair, Sonic Faction presents extended lines of thought prompted by two Urbanomic events which explored the ways in which sound and voice can produce new sensory terrains and provoke speculative thought.

Three recent pieces provide the catalyst for a discussion of the potential of the audio essay as medium and method, a machine for intensifying listening and unsettling the boundaries between existing forms: documentary, music, ambient sound, audiobook, field recording, radio play....

Kode9's Astro-Darien (2022) is a sonic fiction about simulation, presenting an alternative history of the Scottish Space Programme, haunted by the ghosts of the British Empire. Justin Barton and Mark Fisher's On Vanishing Land (2006) is a dreamlike account of a coastal walk that expands into questions of modernity, capitalism, fiction, and the micropolitics of escape. Robin Mackay's By the North Sea (2021) is a meditation on time, disappearance, and loss as heard through the fictions of Lovecraft, Ccru, and the spectre of Dunwich, the city that vanished beneath the waves.

Alongside photographic documentation of the events and edited transcripts of the artists' discussions, Sonic Faction brings together contributors with diverse perspectives to address the question of the audio essay and to imagine its future.

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