Hold The Sound — Notes On Auditories

Can you hold a sound? This book experiments with giving tangible form to something seemingly immaterial. Within these pages, you will find a collection of thoughts on sound gathered by artists and researchers, each attempting to grasp sound’s fleeting nature through verbal and visual expressions.

What are auditories? The plural of “auditory” emphasizes that there is no one way of hearing, and that hearing is not an isolated activity. For the inaugural presentation of the library, we reached out to artists and writers encountered during our investi­gations into books on sound. We gathered quotations about auditories that have inspired them. Collected here, they assemble a multitude of voices, offering thought-provoking ideas, introductions, and modes of access to the auditories that concern them.

With contributions by Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, Aio Frei, Alisa Oleva, Andrew Norman Wilson, Ben Rivers, Bertrand Bacqué, Camille Llobet, Daniel Deshays, Daphne Xanthopoulou, David Horvitz, Eleni Ikoniadou, Haroon Mirza, Hildegard Westerkamp, Jan Steinbach, Jean-Paul Felley, Justine Stella Knuchel, Kevin B. Lee, Lauren Tortil, Marie Losier, Marina Rosenfeld, Nina Dragičević, Philippe Ciompi, Pierre Leguillon, Samson Young, Sarah Brahim, Simone Merli, Stefano Knuchel, Stephan Crasneanscki, and Tomoko Sauvage.

Featuring quotes from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brandon LaBelle, Daniel Deshays, David George Haskell, David Horvitz, David Toop, Eliane Radigue, Gavin Steingo & Jim Sykes, Gilles Deleuze, Jason Stanyek & Benjamin Piekut, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jenny Odell, John Cage, John Hull, Lucia Farinati & Claudia Firth, Mannie Fresh, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Stocker, Mosab Abu Toha, Pierre Leguillon, Rajni Shah, Steve Roden, Sun Ra, Susan Schuppli, and Tony Conrad.