Brandon LaBelle

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Books:

Author, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Continuum, 2010) info
Editor, Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection (Errant Bodies, 2010)
Co-editor, What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration (Errant Bodies, 2009)
Co-editor, Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate social connection (Errant Bodies, 2009)
Brandon LaBelle: Live Bootleg, monograph (Les presses du réel, 2008) info
Radio Memory, artist book (Errant Bodies, 2008)
Co-editor, Radio Territories (Errant Bodies, 2007)
Author, Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum, 2006) info
Co-editor, Surface Tension Supplement No. 1 & 2 (Errant Bodies, 2006 & 2009)
Site Specific Sound, work 1998-2002, monograph (Errant Bodies, 2004)
Co-editor, Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (Errant Bodies, 2003)
Co-editor, Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Errant Bodies, 2001)
Co-editor, Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear (Errant Bodies, 1999)

Texts:

“Raw Orality: Sound Poetry and Live Bodies”, Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts & Media (MIT Press, 2010) info/download
“Untying the Tongue: the Promise of the Voice from Vibrespace to Public Space”, Immediacy and Non-Simultaneity: Utopia of Sound (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2010)
"Sound as a Hinge", Esemplasticism: The Truth is a Compromise (exhibition catalogue; TAG/Club Transmediale, Berlin, 2010) download
“Voice Over”, Poetics of Space (Sonic Acts, 2010)
“A Sonorous Body”, Artpress, No. 15 (Nov/Dec/Jan 2010) download
“Other Acoustics”, Oase: Immersed, Sound & Architecture, No. 78 (NAi, 2009) download
"Autres Acoustiques", Zones urbaines partagees (Synesthesie, 2008)
"Corps et oralité à l'époque des nouveaux médias", Poétique(s) du numérique (Collection L’électron musagète, 2008)
“Transmission Culture”, Re-Inventing Radio: Aspects of Radio as Art (Revolver, 2008) info
“Street Noise: on the contours of public sound”, Performance Design (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008)
“Laughter Notebook”, Parole #1: The Body of the Voice (Salon Verlag, 2008) download

“Misplace: dropping eaves on ethics”, Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture (Cambridge Scholars, 2007) info
“Pump up the Bass! Rhythm, Cars, and Auditory Scaffolding”, The Senses and Society (Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2008)
“e+l: toward an intimate architecture”, parallax 42 (Vol 13, 2007)
“Short Circuit: Sound Art and the Museum”, BOL, No. 6. (Insa Art Space, 2007)
“Phantom Radio”, Organized Sound (Cambridge University, 2006)
“Vandalism and Complaints: Sound’s Other Mask”, Sound Art: Resonance Supplement, Resonance Magazine (London, 2005)
“Performing Geometry: Music’s Affair with Numbers, Systems, and Procedures”, Beyond Geometry: Art and Mathematics 1950 –1980 (LA County Museum of Art / MIT Press, 2004)
“Pillow Talk”, Kunst-Stimmen (Free University Berlin, 2004)
“eavesdrops”, Argos Festival 2004 (Argos art center, Brussels, 2004)
“sonic geographies”, Era 21: architecture journal (Prague, 2004)
“Unstable Volumes”, Soundspace: architecture of sound and vision (Birkhaüser, 2003)
“Sound as space creator”, Soundscape: journal of acoustic ecology (fall/winter, 2003)
“Causing Effects”, earshot journal (London, 2002)
“Transient Definition: Misusing Architecture”, Eyeing London (London Consortium, Birkbeck College, 2002)
“Reading Between the Lines: Word as Conceptual Project”, Performance Research (Vol. 7, 2002)
“Field Recording in an Expanded Field”, Amplitude of Chance (Kawasaki City Museum, 2002)
“Music to the Nth Degree”, Experimental Sound & Radio (MIT Press, 2001)
“System, Intervention, and Ethics of Art Production”, Achim Wollscheid: Selected Works (SELEKTION, 2001)
“Sounding Out: Reverberations Across Social Space”, Just About Now catalogue (Tent Gallery, 2000)

CD:

The Sonic Body (Errant Bodies, 2011)
Lecture on Nothing (Errant Bodies, 2011)
dirty ear (Errant Bodies, 2008)
Radio Flirt (with James Webb) (Room 40, 2008)
Concert (Sirr-ecords, 2004)
Death of the Composer, Social Music book/CD (Errant Bodies, 2002)
Techné (La Bruit Secret, 2001)
Shadow of a shadow (SELEKTION, 2001
Automatic Radio (Fringes Recordings, 2001
Music on a Short Thin Wire (Ground Fault Recordings, 2001)
Text=CD (Errant Bodies, 2000)
The Opening of The Field (with s. roden) (Digital Narcis label, 2000)
Maps of Tenderness (SELEKTION, 1999)
The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm (with s. roden) )Meme label, 1999)