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 sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic though…
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 settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities. Initially tracks 1-4 were composed for the installation work Prototypes for the mobilization and broadcast of fugitive sound shown at the Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato.
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 academy on questions and practices of listening. Can listening be a tool? For care and concern? For possible worlds? How can a space support experiences of togetherness? How to challenge geometries of power by listening? Where is the border between quest…
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 intrinsic to sonic experience and the currents of sound? Currents that pass across subjects and objects, and that give way to a multiplicity of rhythms, vocalities, gestures, scrapings. The work circles around listening as the basis for movement and tran…
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 ability to give emotional charge: a sound in the distance, playing on a stranger's ghetto blaster, or traveling from an open window, across a city street, to arrive at the moment to become forever associated with a certain happening, where song and event …
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 LaBelle positions acoustics, and the broader experience of listening, as a dynamic means for fostering responsiveness, understanding, dispute, and the work of reorientation. As such, acoustic justice emerges as a compelling platform for engaging str…
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 borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.
Brandon LaBelle is a musician, artist, writer, theorist, curator and editor (founder of Errant Bodies). His work is based on performance, sound installation, recording and use of foun…
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 political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.Compiling works and writings from the last 13 years, this comprehensive monograph on American artist, writer and theorist Bran…
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 LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.“Sound moves between inside and outside. It disturbs what may appear static while also providing mom…
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, as well as a specific project (a collection of radio memories submitted from around the world), installations views, the artist's Museum of Instruments, and descriptions of the performances recorded on the included audio cd. Brandon Labelle is musicia…
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, transmission and broadcast media upsets and redistributes understandings of place, corporeality, social exchange, and the politics of information. Such instances of radicality find their current expression in radio networking and streaming, which seek to coun…
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 at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Functioning site-specifically, and drawing upon the architectural structure of the building, the installations explore the relationship between sound and space by staging social and spatial interventions. In do…