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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: On Listening In
Description: Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound composer, media artist and curator Lawrence English.This episode of gets deep into English’s own listening practices as an artist, specifically a technique he calls Relational Listening. In fact, as you’ll hear, he describes himself not as a sound maker but as a professional listener—that’s how central the act of listening is to his artistic practice.In particular he talks about his reworking of an important work in the fields of musique concrète and field recording, Pr...