Brandon LaBelle explained

Brandon LaBelle
Birth Name:Brandon James LaBelle
Birth Date:23 October 1969
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, USA
Education:California Institute of the Arts (BFA, MFA)

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 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]

Early life and education

Brandon LaBelle was born on October 23, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. He attended Palos Verdes High School. As a drummer, LaBelle took part in the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the 1980s and 90s where he developed "an experimental relation to noise."[10] He graduated with a BFA in 1992, followed by an MFA in 1998 from California Institute of the Arts. In 2005, he was awarded his PhD from the London Consortium.[11] [12]

Career

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] [14] In 2006, LaBelle published Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. In 2010, he published Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life.

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ouzounian, Gascia . "Sound Art." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics . Oxford University Press . 2014 . 978-0-19-974710-8 . Online.
  2. Web site: Downey . Walker . 2022-06-07 . For Eyes and Ears: New Sound Art Serves Different Senses with a Multimodal Approach . 2022-11-16 . ARTnews . en-US.
  3. Book: Isacoff, Stuart . "Environmental music." The Grove Dictionary of American Music . Oxford University Press . 2013 . 978-0-19-531428-1.
  4. Fenech . Guiliana . 2009 . The CounterText Interview: Brandon LaBelle . CounterText . Edinburgh University Press . 5 . 3 . 271–289 . November 16, 2022 . EBSCOHOST.
  5. Web site: Brandon LaBelle . 2022-11-16 . University of Bergen . en.
  6. Web site: Brandon LaBelle . November 20, 2022 . MIT Press.
  7. Woloshyn . Alexa . December 21, 2018 . Book Review: Brandon LaBelle, Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2018. 224 pp. : 978-1-906-89751-2 . Organised Sound . Cambridge University Press . 23 . 3 . 307–309 . 10.1017/S1355771818000225 . 70041483 . Cambridge Core.
  8. Web site: Open Syllabus: Brandon LaBelle . November 20, 2022 . Open Syllabus Explorer.
  9. Web site: 2019-09-13 . David Byrne lists 224 music books in his personal library . 2022-11-16 . faroutmagazine.co.uk . en-US.
  10. Web site: Kvalvaag . Hilde . March 5, 2019 . Art and resistance: The great hope of finding an opening to another world . November 20, 2022 . University of Bergen Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design.
  11. Web site: Knudsen . Stephen . The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle . November 20, 2022 . Art Pulse Magazine.
  12. Web site: MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Brandon LaBelle . Otis College of Art and Design.
  13. Web site: Couture . François . Brandon LaBelle Biography by François Couture . November 20, 2022 . AllMusic.
  14. Web site: Raimondo . Anna . Becoming a Stranger . November 20, 2022 . Norient.

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