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 inNew Media Art in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at theUniversity of Bergen since 2011.[4][5][6] LaBelle is best known for his booksBackground Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art andAcoustic 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 bandTalking Heads, listedAcoustic Territories as one of his favorite books about music, including it in a collection of books Byrne curated for London's 2019Meltdown Festival.[9]
Brandon LaBelle | |
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| Born | Brandon James LaBelle (1969-10-23)October 23, 1969 (age 55) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Education | California Institute of the Arts (BFA, MFA) |
Early life and education
editBrandon LaBelle was born on October 23, 1969, inLos Angeles, California. He attendedPalos Verdes High School. As adrummer, LaBelle took part in the Los Angelespunk rock scene in the 1980s and 90s where he developed "an experimental relation to noise."[10] He graduated with aBFA in 1992, followed by anMFA in 1998 fromCalifornia Institute of the Arts. In 2005, he was awarded hisPhD from theLondon Consortium.[11][12]
Career
editLaBelle's first exhibitions date from 1995, the year when he also published his first noteworthy papers and gave his first performances as asound artist.[13][11][14][10] In 2006, LaBelle publishedBackground Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. In 2010, he publishedAcoustic 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. Retrieved2022-11-16.
- ^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. RetrievedNovember 16, 2022 – via EBSCOHOST.
- ^"Brandon LaBelle".University of Bergen. Retrieved2022-11-16.
- ^"Brandon LaBelle".MIT Press. RetrievedNovember 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. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.
- ^"David Byrne lists 224 music books in his personal library".faroutmagazine.co.uk. 2019-09-13. Retrieved2022-11-16.
- ^abKvalvaag, 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. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.
- ^abKnudsen, Stephen."The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle".Art Pulse Magazine. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.
- ^"MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Brandon LaBelle".Otis College of Art and Design.
- ^Couture, François."Brandon LaBelle Biography by François Couture".AllMusic. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.
- ^Raimondo, Anna."Becoming a Stranger".Norient. RetrievedNovember 20, 2022.