Visiting speaker - Brandon LaBelle

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Visiting speaker - Brandon LaBelle

Tuesday 11th November 2003
2-5pm Electronic Music Studios
Music Department
Goldsmiths College



Brandon LaBelle is a sound artist and writer from Los Angeles. Working in
the
field of sound- performance- and installation-art since 1992, LaBelle's work
aims to draw attention to the dynamics of sound as it is found within spaces
and objects, public events and interactions, language and the body. Through
a
performative interaction with objects, found-sound, and minimal electronics,
the work draws attention to the quality and nature of what is already there
through an emphasis on and displacement of listening and interaction, as a
technological and architectural glitch. LaBelle's interest in
site-specificity
reflects a desire to consider the relationships and tensions between art and
a
broader social environment.

His work has been featured in "Bitstreams" at the Whitney Museum, in
"Amplitude
of Chance" at Kawasaki City Museum Japan, at the 9th International Symposium
of
Electronic Arts in Liverpool and Manchester, Sampling Rage Festival in
Berlin,
the ICA London, Experimental Intermedia in New York, the Arizona State
University Museum, and as part of "Sound as Media" at ICC in Tokyo. He is
also
the co-editor of "Site of Sound: of Architecture and The Ear" and "Writing
Aloud: The Sonics of Language", both published by Errant Bodies, and curator
of
the Beyond Music Series at Beyond Baroque Center, Los Angeles CA. His work
has
been released on the SELEKTION, Fringes Recordings, Ground Fault, and La
Bruit
Secret labels.

How to find Goldsmiths:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

Electronic Music Studios:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/ems/index.html

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Dr John Drever
Lectuer in Composition
Music Department
Goldsmiths College, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW

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