Brandon LaBelle
Dirty Ear

Hyper-constructions, neurotic representations, micro-compositions designed as counter-sonorities to specific locations or settings... – environments ingested and regurgitated as audible fantasies...

*
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sounds, places, bodies, and cultural fictions. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies “Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear”, “Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language”, “Surface Tension: Problematics of Site” and "Radio Territories". His installation work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including "Sampling Rage" (1999) Podewil Berlin, “Sound as Media” (2000) ICC Tokyo, "Bitstreams" (2001) Whitney Museum New York, “Pleasure of Language” (2002) Netherlands Media Institute Amsterdam, “Undercover”(2003) Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde, and “Cross Lake Atlantic” (2007) Enrico Fornello Gallery, Prato, and his writings have been included in various books and journals, including “Experimental Sound and Radio” (MIT) and “Soundspace: Architecture for Sound and Vision” (Birkhäuser). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, “Phantom Radio”, was presented fall 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany and at Casa Vecina, Mexico City in 2008. He is the author of “Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art” (Continuum 2006).