{"id":1806,"date":"2010-02-04T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1806"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:53:36","slug":"brandon-labelle-reading-silence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=1806","title":{"rendered":"Brandon LaBelle | Reading Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brandon LaBelle <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>is an artist and writer working with sound and locational identity. He is the author of <em>Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art<\/em> (Continuum, 2006) and <em>Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life<\/em> (Continuum, 2010). His installation work has been featured internationally including Sound as Media, ICC Tokyo (2000), Bitstreams, Whitney Museum New York (2001), Singuhr galerie, Berlin (2004), Radio Revolten, Halle (2006),&nbsp; Tuned City, Berlin (2008), and Dissecting the Ear, Ljubljana (2009). He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/brandon-la_belle.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/playing_with_words\/brandon-la_belle.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading Silence<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/gruenrekorder\/1\/playing_with_words\/23_Reading_Silence_by_Brandon_LaBelle.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The project explores the concept of silence through an engagement with the work of John Cage. For Cage, silence operates as a positive frame to appreciate non-musical sounds, and to heighten the experience of listening: by including silences within his compositions, Cage sought to allow the sounds of the world into the musical experience. It is my interest to perform Cage&#8217;s ideas, and the notion of a &#8218;musical silence&#8216;, through a special reading of Cage&#8217;s &quot;Lecture on Nothing&quot; by a deaf individual speaking Slovenian. In doing so, I imagine a performative investigation of Cage&#8217;s theories that might also create an unsteady or ambiguous space of silence. How does silence feel for those who cannot hear, and how do Cage&#8217;s ideas function within the experience of deafness? And how might this particular voice locate us as listeners?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound and locational identity. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum, 2006) and Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Continuum, 2010). His installation work has been featured internationally including Sound as Media, ICC Tokyo (2000), Bitstreams, Whitney Museum New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}