Accompanied by booklet entitled "Episode 0: Script for a stranger." Booklet continues pagination of the main volume (page 291-359). Audio disc contains recording for a live performance held at Club Transmediale Festival 2015, Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Room tone. Jeremy Woodruff -- Restless search for a moment of attention and kindness - and sharing / Edit Molnar - The possible city: Brandon LaBelle's rehearsal for a People's Microphone / Jeremy Woodruff -- Hobo college for itinerant studies -- The accident - The embassy project -- Hideout for a Creole imaginary -- Media plate -- The porcelain workshop -- Table talk -- Sound stage -- Proposal to the mayor II -- In passing -- Rehearsal for a People's Microphone -- Monument (to the wild imagination) -- Preparations for common recognition -- Radio memory -- Preparations for a future library -- Temporary outpost for an auditory figure -- Meditation on a future horizon -- Language games -- Sound writing -- Conversation piece -- Sound parade -- Pirate drumming -- Phantom music -- The sonic body -- The rhythm project -- Learning from seedbed -- Event and its double -- Motel polytope -- Tour guide -- Room tone.
Summary:
"Compiling works and writings from the last 13 years, this comprehensive monograph on American artist, writer and theorist Brandon LaBelle (born 1969) captures the artist's expansive practice. Originally from Los Angeles and currently based in Berlin, LaBelle has been at the forefront of the sound arts since the mid-1990s, developing projects that adopt methods of intervention and spatial practice, that work with voice and modes of address, and that stage scenes of public gathering based on notions of interruption and radical sharing. LaBelle is a highly unique artist and writer, engaged in collaborative and public work, and the monograph documents his diverse activities in a range of international contexts. It includes a CD of a recent line performance by LaBelle, essays on the artist by writer Fred Dewey, curator Edit Molnar, and the cultural theorist Jeremy Woodruff, along with an interview with the artist by Elena Biserna"--Publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.