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Listening to Yourself through the Otherself: On Background Noise Study and other works

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2011

Agostino Di Scipio
Agostino Di Scipio*
Affiliation:
Via Salaria Antica Est 33a, 67100 L'Aquila, ITALY
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E-mail: discipio@tin.it
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Abstract

In this paper I describe a work of mine, Background Noise Study, as a starting point to raise questions of broader relevance for current artistic practices. Issues are presented in terms varying from technical and specific, to more philosophical and general (system-theory, biocybernetics, ecology). Excursions are made into the music-theoretical (understanding of key issues in the sound arts, such as ‘space’, ‘performance’, ‘form’ or ‘timbre’) and the political (politics of sound, biopolitics of performance and listening).

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Organised Sound , Volume 16 , Issue 2: Performance Ecosystems , August 2011 , pp. 97 - 108
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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