ISBN: 978-0-9827439-0-4
17 x 24 cm (softcover)
304 pages (color & b/w ill.) + audio CD
Published: July 2011

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CLAUDIA MARTINHO is a researcher, sound artist and architect, based in Gerês mountain, an UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Portugal. She is currently engaged as a researcher in the project Audire – saving sonic-based memories, University of Minho, PT.
Cláudia has been experimenting with environmental sound, spatial acoustics and geometry, to regenerate relationships between humans and their surrounding ecosystems. Her research process embraces sound art, architecture, ecoacoustics, archaeoacoustics, animism and activism. The experiments are site-relational and involve location recording, soundscape design, installation, performance, experimental music and workshops with communities. Her works result as incentives to active and conscious listening modes, as a contribution to an ecological awareness, and have been shared in different contexts such as: ‘maat – museum of art, architecture and technology’ (Lisbon, PT), ‘Noite Branca Braga’, gnration (Braga, PT) ‘Invisible Places: Sound, Urbanism and Sense of Place’ symposium (Azores, PT), ‘Lisboa Soa – sound art, urbanism and auditory culture’ (Lisbon, PT), ‘Archaeoacoustics III International Conference’ (Tomar, PT), ‘Architectones: Sound, Art and Architecture Seminar’ (Arc-Et-Sénans, FR), ‘Tuned City – between sound and space speculations’ (Berlin, DE). She is co-editor of the anthology ‘Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear – Vol. 2’. As a founding member of the collective Rural Vivo, she has been inciting artistic, educational and ecological activities in Gerês mountain.

BRANDON LABELLE is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, which results in a range of collaborative and para-institutional initiatives, including: The Listening Biennial and Academy (2021-), Communities in Movement (2019-), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), Oficina de Autonomia (2017), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015). His latest book, Acoustic Justice (2021), argues for an acoustic model by which to engage questions of social equality. Since 2011 he works as Professor at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear Vol. 2
Edited by Brandon LaBelle & Claudia Martinho

Since the publication of the first volume of Site of Sound in 1999 the issues and activities pertaining to sound and architecture have expanded to circulate more dynamically within the fields of sound art, sound design, and spatial practices. From acoustical technologies and urban planning to public art, concerns for auditory structures and the experiences of listening are finding deeper footing within both artistic and environmental contexts. Recent noise mappings across Europe, along with new possibilities for acoustical implementation, as well as the ongoing emergence of sound art and design educational programs, point toward sound as a crucial subject for thinking through contemporary culture and politics.

Site of Sound Vol. 2 aims to address contemporary work being done in the cross-over between sound and architecture. The anthology brings together new research and writing that charts out the theoretical implications and consequences for artistic and spatial discourses, while documenting contemporary projects that come to occupy and define a sonic-spatial territory.

With contributions by Justin Bennett, Usman Haque, David Schafer, James Webb, Edwin van der Heide, Raviv Ganchrow, Jodi Rose, Nigel Helyer, Michael Gendreau, Jean-Paul Thibaud, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Oliver Laric, David Stalling / Anthony Kelly, Romano, Natasha Barrett / Birger Sevaldson, Scott Arford / Randy Yau, Riccardo Benassi, Carrie Bodle, Jenny Pickett / Julien Ottavi, Pascal Broccolichi, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid, Franz Pomassl & Björn Quiring.

With accompanying CD of related audio.