Distance, therefore, preserves a European austerity in recorded musical practices, and electroacoustic practice is no exception; it is perhaps even responsible for reinvigorating a colonial posterity in contemporary music as so many examples in this book follow this pattern–Danielle Shlomit Sofer, Sex Sounds, 14. Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music (MIT Press, 2022) … … Continue reading →| Sounding Out!
Back of black woman in 1930s dress as she walks into a barn dance. A front view of two Black people wearing oversized white tee shirts to her right performing contemporary hip hop dances.| Sounding Out!
The beginning of this year witnessed a significant reportage on films inspired by the Kashmir conflict in India, occasioned by the release of Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files on March 11, 2022. The polarized reaction to the film, which single-mindedly focuses on the exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley and the violence they were […]| Sounding Out!
