Brandon LaBelle

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Brandon LaBelle
Born
Brandon James LaBelle

(1969-10-23) October 23, 1969 (age 55)
Los Angeles, California, USA
EducationCalifornia 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 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]

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][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)

References

  1. ^ Ouzounian, Gascia (2014). "Sound Art." Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Online: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-974710-8.
  2. ^ Downey, Walker (2022-06-07). "For Eyes and Ears: New Sound Art Serves Different Senses with a Multimodal Approach". ARTnews. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  3. ^ Isacoff, Stuart (2013). "Environmental music." The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-531428-1.
  4. ^ Fenech, Guiliana (2009). "The CounterText Interview: Brandon LaBelle". CounterText. 5 (3). Edinburgh University Press: 271–289. Retrieved November 16, 2022 – via EBSCOHOST.
  5. ^ "Brandon LaBelle". University of Bergen. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  6. ^ "Brandon LaBelle". MIT Press. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  7. ^ Woloshyn, Alexa (December 21, 2018). "Book Review: Brandon LaBelle, Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2018. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1-906-89751-2". Organised Sound. 23 (3). Cambridge University Press: 307–309. doi:10.1017/S1355771818000225. S2CID 70041483 – via Cambridge Core.
  8. ^ "Open Syllabus: Brandon LaBelle". Open Syllabus Explorer. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  9. ^ "David Byrne lists 224 music books in his personal library". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 2019-09-13. Retrieved 2022-11-16.
  10. ^ a b Kvalvaag, Hilde (March 5, 2019). "Art and resistance: The great hope of finding an opening to another world". University of Bergen Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  11. ^ a b Knudsen, Stephen. "The Acoustic Terrain of a Sound Artist: An Interview with Brandon LaBelle". Art Pulse Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  12. ^ "MFA Fine Arts Lecture Series: Brandon LaBelle". Otis College of Art and Design.
  13. ^ Couture, François. "Brandon LaBelle Biography by François Couture". AllMusic. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  14. ^ Raimondo, Anna. "Becoming a Stranger". Norient. Retrieved November 20, 2022.