Brandon LaBelle
Brandon LaBelle | |
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| Born | Brandon James LaBelle October 23, 1969 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts (BFA, MFA) |
Brandon LaBelle (born October 23, 1969) is an American artist and sound theorist whose work has influenced the field of sound studies.[1][2][3] LaBelle has served as Professor in New Media in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen since 2011.[4][5][6] LaBelle is best known for his books Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art and Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life which are important texts in the sound studies canon.[7][8] David Byrne, founding member and lead singer of American rock band Talking Heads, listed Acoustic Territories as one of his favorite books about music, including it in a collection of books Byrne curated for London's 2019 Meltdown Festival.[9]
Early life and education[edit]
Brandon LaBelle was born on October 23, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. He attended Palos Verdes High School. As a drummer, LaBelle took part in the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the 1980s and 90s where he developed "an experimental relation to noise."[10] He graduated with a BFA in 1992, followed by an MFA in 1998 from California Institute of the Arts. In 2005, he was awarded his PhD from the London Consortium.[11][12]
Career[edit]
LaBelle's first exhibitions date from 1995, the year when he also published his first noteworthy papers and gave his first performances as a sound artist.[13][11][14][10] In 2006, LaBelle published Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. In 2010, he published Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life.
Selected publications[edit]
- Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (2006)
- Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (2010)
- Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary (2014)
- Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance (2018)
- Acoustic Justice: Listening, Performativity, and the Work of Reorientation (2021)
References[edit]
- ^ Ouzounian, Gascia (2014). "Sound Art." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Online: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974710-8.
- ^ Downey, Walker (2022-06-07). "For Eyes and Ears: New Sound Art Serves Different Senses with a Multimodal Approach". ARTnews. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- ^ Isacoff, Stuart (2013). "Environmental music." The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531428-1.
- ^ Fenech, Guiliana (2009). "The CounterText Interview: Brandon LaBelle". CounterText. 5 (3). Edinburgh University Press: 271–289. Retrieved November 16, 2022 – via EBSCOHOST.
- ^ "Brandon LaBelle". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- ^ "Brandon LaBelle". MIT Press. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ Woloshyn, Alexa (December 21, 2018). "Book Review: Brandon LaBelle, Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2018. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-906-89751-2". Organised Sound. 23 (3). Cambridge University Press: 307–309. doi:10.1017/S1355771818000225. S2CID 70041483 – via Cambridge Core.
- ^ "Open Syllabus: Brandon LaBelle". Open Syllabus Explorer. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ "David Byrne lists 224 music books in his personal library". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 2019-09-13. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
- ^ a b Kvalvaag, Hilde (March 5, 2019). "Art and resistance: The great hope of finding an opening to another world". University of Bergen Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ a b Knudsen, Stephen. "The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle". Art Pulse Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ "MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Brandon LaBelle". Otis College of Art and Design.
- ^ Couture, François. "Brandon LaBelle Biography by François Couture". AllMusic. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
- ^ Raimondo, Anna. "Becoming a Stranger". Norient. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
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