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 in New Media Art in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen since 2011.[4][5][6] LaBelle is best known for his books Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art and Acoustic 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 band Talking Heads, listed Acoustic Territories as one of his favorite books about music, including it in a collection of books Byrne curated for London's 2019 Meltdown Festival.[9]
LaBelle's first exhibitions date from 1995, the year when he also published his first noteworthy papers and gave his first performances as a sound artist.[13][11][14][10] In 2006, LaBelle published Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. In 2010, he published Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life.
Selected publications
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)
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