Errant Bodies

Errant Bodies, run by Brandon LaBelle, has been publishing books (anthologies, monographs, essays), DVDs and CDs on sound, auditory issues, spatial arts and design, and cultures of experimental performance and art since 1995. Since this time, it has been at the forefront of developing and supporting the diverse attitudes toward the emerging field of sound art, contemporary experimental music, and auditory culture. In addition, Errant Bodies aims to remain sensitive to the specifics of location and the co-productive details born from cultural work and its place through site-based research, actions and projects.
 
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84 titles
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Errant Sounds (vinyl LP)
Errant Sounds (vinyl LP)
2024
16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.
Party Studies - Vol. 2 – Underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures
Party Studies – Vol. 2 – Underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures
2024
English edition
Second volume of a collective publication devoted to the analysis of the party, in all the complexity of its social dimensions and implications.
Rosé
Rosé #01
2024
English edition
Rosé is a queer art zine, edited by Ben Egger and Sarah Berger, that aims to provide a curated public platform for queer artistic perspectives and concerns.
Charlotta Ruth - Questionology - Are you here?
Cordula Daus, Charlotta Ruth
Questionology – Are you here?
2024
English edition
A zine and exercise book about the applied art of questioning, by the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth.
Nina Dragičević - Auditory Poverty and its Discontents - An Essay
Nina Dragičević
Auditory Poverty and its Discontents – An Essay
2024
English edition
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
Zorka Wollny - Singing Machine (vinyl LP)
Zorka Wollny
Singing Machine (vinyl LP)
2024
The Malakow Tower of Zeche Hannover becomes a space-consuming sound installation that transforms voices from different communities in Bochum into a physically palpable listening experience.
Stefan Roigk - de—COMPOSED (book + 2 CD)
Stefan Roigk
de—COMPOSED (book + 2 CD)
2023
English edition
An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson - B for the birds
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson
B for the birds
2023
English edition
B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.
Charlotte Graham - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Charlotte Graham
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
2023
English edition
A sci-fi imagining of life in America's penultimate chapter: Montreal-born, NY-based writer Charlotte Graham's debut novel, a work of experimental fiction, follows a sweeping group of characters in America's near future as they live and die under the threat of a new kind of deadly bomb called the Peacemaker.
The Listening Biennial Reader - Vol. 1: Waves of Listening
The Listening Biennial Reader – Vol. 1: Waves of Listening
2023
English edition
Listening as a creative and critical force, relational capacity, philosophical, political and ecological proposition, and research method.
Jeph Jerman - Listen - Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian
Jeph Jerman
Listen – Jeph Jerman in conversation with Aram Yardumian
2023
English edition
A sketch history of the 1980s American home-taping and electronic music scene through the career of sound artist, field recordist, percussionist, and visual artist Jeph Jerman.
The Listening Academy (CD)
The Listening Academy (CD)
2022
A collective improvisation as part of a creative research academy focusing on listening as a philosophical, artistic, social and somatic issue.
Alien Phenomenology (CD)
Alien Phenomenology (CD)
2022
Listening as the basis for social, bodily and passionate movement and transformation.
Radical Sympathy
Radical Sympathy
2022
English edition
A collective reflection on the notions of sympathy and care in the context of the environmental and epidemiological crisis.
Bio_Sonic_Agencies (CD)
Bio_Sonic_Agencies (CD)
2022
A radio creation around the materiality of sound and air.
Luis Guerra - Wandering Echoes - Handbook of Operatives Losses
Luis Guerra
Wandering Echoes – Handbook of Operatives Losses
2022
English edition
Between philosophical essay and poetic experimentation, this text by the Chilean philosopher and artist pays tribute to Fernand Deligny, whose work on autism has allowed a more experimental understanding of difference.
Israel Martínez - Dead People Whispering to Us
Israel Martínez
Dead People Whispering to Us
2022
English edition
A poetic, "necropolitical" view of sociality in Mexico.
Brandon LaBelle - Dreamtime X
Brandon LaBelle
Dreamtime X
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives.
Rodrigo Karmy Bolton - The Future is Inherited - Fragments of a Chile in Revolt
Rodrigo Karmy Bolton
The Future is Inherited – Fragments of a Chile in Revolt
2022
English edition
A collection of articles and essays around the Chilean popular rebellion initiated in 2019.
Sara Gebran - Quantum Society
Sara Gebran
Quantum Society
2022
English edition
A performative publication by author and choreographer Sara Gebran aiming to immerse readers in a world of social intimacy.
Party Studies - Vol. 1 – Home gatherings, flat events, festive pedagogy and refiguring the hangover
Party Studies – Vol. 1 – Home gatherings, flat events, festive pedagogy and refiguring the hangover
2021
English edition
First volume of a collective publication devoted to the analysis of the party, in all the complexity of its social dimensions and implications.
Eilith Le Fort - Synästhetische Bilder (DVD)
Annette Le Fort, Eilith Le Fort
Synästhetische Bilder (DVD)
2021
An exploration of the synesthetic phenomenon, where language and perception interweave in poetical ways.
Alex Hamburger - Antilogy
Alex Hamburger
Antilogy
2020
English edition
Drawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger.
Dirty Ear Report
Dirty Ear Report #03
2020
English edition
Dirty Ear Report #3 documents a collective workshop by sound artists and researchers working in the fields of experimental dramaturgy, sonic social engagement, and voice studies.
Matters of Listening (CD)
Matters of Listening (CD)
2020
A sound composition based on a workshop focusing on questions of sound, listening, collaboration, and community.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - The Nomadic Listener
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
The Nomadic Listener
2020
English edition
currently out of stock
Based on the author's artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, The Nomadic Listener is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations of contemporary cities, including Copenhagen, Berlin, Kolkata, Vienna, Delhi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and New York, among others.
Brandon LaBelle - The Other Citizen
Brandon LaBelle
The Other Citizen
2020
English edition
Drawing upon traditions of socially engaged poetics, Brandon LaBelle's The Other Citizen presents narratives of contemporary crisis and exclusionary politics—from American teenagers in the maze of neoliberal privatization to those caught between borders of nation-states—outlining the force of a planetary citizenry.
The Imaginary Republic
The Imaginary Republic
2020
English edition
The Imaginary Republic is an artistic research project focusing on questions of social practice. In particular, it considers the creative and restless imaginaries underpinning our political selves and argues for a deeper engagement with what Elena Loizidou terms “dream-action”: the figurative and poetic staging of world making activity (with Tatiana Fiodorova, Brandon LaBelle & Octavio Camargo, Sala-manca group and Joulia Strauss).
Antje Vowinckel - Tuning Butterflies (CD)
Antje Vowinckel
Tuning Butterflies (CD)
2019
Dialect melodies are passed along since time immemorial and yet are only spontaneously available in the moment. Before caught and preserved they have to be released. Antje Vowinckel reflects upon this paradox through a collection of dialect recordings which are then imitated by humming musicians who try to catch the correct melodic lines.
Cecilia Vicuña - Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja
Camila Marambio, Cecilia Vicuña
Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja
2019
English edition
currently out of stock
In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, subversive and irreverent humorous slang.
Fanny Levy - The Human Strike (CD)
Brandon LaBelle, Marc-Antoine Cloutier, Stéphanie Letarte, Fanny Levy, Emmanuel Delly
The Human Strike (CD)
2018
This recording stems from a collaborative sound experimentation developed as part of a project to create new forms for artistic research within the university. Invited artists, musicians, and researchers produced a series of sound actions focusing on questions of community, creative resistances, sonic agency and the créolité passing between Haiti and Quebec.
Grounds for Possible Music - On Gender, Voice, Language, and Identity
Grounds for Possible Music – On Gender, Voice, Language, and Identity
2018
English edition
Gender, voice, language, and identity in musical composition and experimental sound practices.
The Invisible Seminar
The Invisible Seminar
2017
English edition
This publication is the first outcome of an ongoing series of seminars at the Bergen University of Fine Arts, developping critical and creative perspectives on invisible practices. These essays and works seek to investigate the operations of visibility by highlighting the unseen, the camouflaged, the immaterial and the erased as particular aesthetic strategies, and to reflect on the possible outcomes of such strategies on the socio-political realm.
Parole #3 - The Hand Writing / Handschrift
Parole #3 – The Hand Writing / Handschrift
2017
English edition
currently out of stock
The third issue in a series of publications revolving around the materiality of language: a collection of 18 works and texts by international artists and scholars who examine the physical act of writing.
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec - Outlines (CD)
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Outlines (CD)
2017
This recording is the outcome of two sound projects—a performance and an installation—started in 2010 and 2012. Using a recording device as a sound producing source, the Slovene artist investigates the spatiality of sonic manifestation.
Israel Martínez - Resounding Roar
Israel Martínez
Resounding Roar
2017
English edition
A polyphonic work of creative resistance, this publication by sound and visual artist Israel Martínez reflects on the present state of Mexico and its regime of narco-politics through artistic works, interviews, notes, images, and collaborations with fellow writers, curators, activists and artists.
Claudia Firth - The Force of Listening
Lucia Farinati, Claudia Firth
The Force of Listening
2017
English edition
currently out of stock
The Force of Listening explores the role of listening in the contemporary intersection of art and activism and asks what potential for transformation it might facilitate.
Surface Tension Supplement - Klangumwelt – Ernst-Reuter-Platz
Surface Tension Supplement #07 – Klangumwelt – Ernst-Reuter-Platz
2017
English edition
This book presents proposals for the transformation of Ernst-Reuter-Platz, a city square in Berlin. They are the results of a process of auditory artistic research and design developed according to a new radical approach on the relationships between aural activity and environment.
Ricardo Basbaum - Diagrams - 1994-ongoing
Ricardo Basbaum
Diagrams – 1994-ongoing
2016
English edition
A publishing survey of the diagrams produced by Ricardo Basbaum in recent years. Both autonomous pieces or elements from installations, these diagrams act as interventional tools and visual poems that connect the literary and plastic spaces.
Architecture without walls
Architecture without walls
2016
English edition
This publication presents five architectural environments that have been conceived through auditory and literary practices.
Dirty Ear Report
Dirty Ear Report #01
2016
English edition
Dirty Ear Report reviews the activities of the Dirty Ear Forum—a research platform focusing on contemporary sound studies and sound art, and the diversity of approaches surrounding its practice and thinking. Drawing on from the researches carried out during the first edition held at Errant Bodies Project Space in Berlin, this first issue gathers contributions investigating sound as a social material.
Dirty Ear Report
Dirty Ear Report #02
2016
English edition
This issue surveys the second edition of the Dirty Ear Forum at Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway, centered around the sound as the basis for a new discursive paradigm.
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