“The labor of tongues. Inscribed to stone. The labor of voices.” — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Slought is pleased to announce “Recitation and the Politics of Listening,” a conversation about listening and recitation as an act of political and social…
Kim speaks with Julie Beth Napolin about Resonance. Listen to and download full episode one the High Theory site here and on Spotify, Apple, Google, and other major podcast sites. And here’s a short preview… Julie Beth’s book The Fact of…
A sonic ensemble, this essay describes how the COVID-19 pandemic cleared the way for heightened protest against racial violence. Both the pandemic and Black Lives Matter address the acoustical threshold between the inside and outside, being a call to listen…
And at times when/ only the void stood between us we got/ all the way to each other – Paul Celan With the pandemic, mixing and mastering this record are on hold right now. I want to contribute to the…
To be published by Fordham UP on May 3, 2020. Available for preorder here. The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which anglophone and francophone narrative and novel theory developed, seeking in sound an alternative…
A new essay on the Wooster Group’s “The B-Side: ‘Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,’ a Record Album Interpretation.” Thank you to Eric Berryman, Kate Valk, Bruce Jackson, Social Text, and the Black Sound and the Archive Working Group at…
I’m pleased to present a new work. “Pneumatic Memory: Listening to Listening in ‘The B-Side’” Friday, February 8, 8:45am-5:30pm, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall All-day BSAW Symposium Roundtable Presenters & Featured Speakers: Lara Cohen (Swarthmore) Michael Denning (Yale) Nina Eidsheim…
We are grateful to artist Kevin Beasley for including our dialogue on the “Perspectives” page for his current sound and sculpture exhibition at the Whitney Museum, “A view of the landscape,” open through March 10, 2019. The exhibition pursues the…
The last post in my three-part blog series on maternal sound and listening in Du Bois and psychoanalysis. This post focuses on the incredible sound design of Barry Jenkins’ film, Moonlight. Thanks to Sounding Out! for their capacious forum.
Part one of a three-part series on Du Bois, sound, and psychoanalysis.
Part two of a three-part series on Du Bois, sound, and psychoanalysis.
“If there is a space of thinking, either real or virtual, then within it there must also be sound, for all sound seeks its expression as vibration in the medium of space,” writes Bill Viola. We think of narrative as…
I am excited to be speaking at this event on Friday June 2 on the media crosscurrents panel. My paper, titled “Music’s Unseen Body,” locates in Heart of Darkness the erotic echoes of Conrad’s experiences of listening to opera and…