I recently finished reading Lane and Carlyle’s In the Field (I saw it recommended over in the Field Recording thread) and loved it. Pleasant, intellectually nourishing, and it turned me on to so many artists I had never heard of. The book itself is a beautiful object, as well! I want to teach a class where all we do is read interviews from this book, listen to the artists’ work, and then go for long walks where we practice listening and maybe make the occasional field recording.
Currently I’m reading Voegelin’s Listening to Noise and Silence, a book which many colleagues and students have recommended to me over the years and which I had been eagerly looking forward to digging into. Has anyone here read it? I’m finding it to be quite incoherent and it’s honestly really bumming me out. My training is in phenomenology and post-structural theory, especially Lyotard, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, so I know the philosophical context she’s working with very well–and it’s just not working right now. Does it get better?
