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.
 
Berlin
www.errantbodies.org
eb@errantbodies.org
 
84 titles
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Brandon LaBelle - Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
Brandon LaBelle
Overhearing and Interrupting (+ CD)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Organised in 8 “episodes,” Brandon LaBelle's reference monograph guides us through a number of his installation works and scripts from 2003 to 2014, raising questions of space and community, and further, to the direction of the social and its political potential. Three essays and an interview, as well as the recording on CD of a recent live performance, complete the book.
Annette Le Fort - Phonetic Skin - A Library of Voices (CD)
Annette Le Fort
Phonetic Skin – A Library of Voices (CD)
2016
An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.
Alexandre St-Onge - Vueien (CD)
Alexandre St-Onge
Vueien (CD)
2016
Alexandre St-Onge pragmatically captures the ungraspable and hermetic sounds that emerge through the creative process.
Brandon LaBelle - Room Tone
Brandon LaBelle
Room Tone
2015
English edition
The publication documents a project developed by artist Brandon LaBelle which attempts to instigate conversations between sound and architecture through a set of audio recordings of the artist's apartment in Berlin.
Jason Kahn - In Place
Jason Kahn
In Place
2015
English edition
In the series of works In Places Jason Kahn explores a variety of places and investigate them through their sounds. Influenced by Henri Lefebvre's theories, Kahn the musician experiences the daily rythms of life and how space is formed and reflected.
Riccardo Benassi - Techno Casa
Riccardo Benassi
Techno Casa
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Essay, sentimental diary, and critical pamphlet, Techno Casa binds together the textual production originally composed for a series of eleven video works presented during 2013 through site-specific installations.
Fred Dewey - The School of Public Life
Fred Dewey
The School of Public Life
2014
English edition
Rethinking public space.
Heimo Lattner - A Voice That Once Was In One\'s Mouth (+ CD)
Heimo Lattner
A Voice That Once Was In One's Mouth (+ CD)
2013
English edition
Six conversations recorded in Berlin between the artist Heimo Lattner and colleagues, focusing on the artist's research and practice, especially around the recurring theme of the voice, which Lattner's work queries as fundamental to issues concerning the formation of social and cultural identity.
Valentina Montero - By Reason or By Force - The Chilean neoliberal model and its implications for education and culture
Valentina Montero
By Reason or By Force – The Chilean neoliberal model and its implications for education and culture
2013
English edition
Chilean journalist and independent curator Valentina Montero outlines some of the milestone events and moments that led to Chile's advanced neoliberalism, and its effects upon education and culture, detecting signs of hope in the lively student movement that emerged in 2011.
Maria Miranda - Surface Tension Supplement - Unsitely Aesthetics – Uncertain practices in contemporary art
Maria Miranda
Surface Tension Supplement #06 – Unsitely Aesthetics – Uncertain practices in contemporary art
2013
English edition
The shifting and troubled relationship of artwork and audience in network culture.
Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun - Bodybuilding (CD)
Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun
Bodybuilding (CD)
2013
An initiatory sound journey in the urban jungle of Rio de Janeiro.
Franco Berardi - Skizo-Mails
Franco Berardi
Skizo-Mails
2012
English edition
The political chronicle of the world held by Franco Berardi, by e-mail, on social networking and online publication platforms, from 2009 to 2012.
Brandon LaBelle - Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian
Brandon LaBelle
Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian
2012
English edition
Brandon LaBelle's revolutionary diary during the Arab Spring.
Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley - Surface Tension Supplement - Beyond Utopia
Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley
Surface Tension Supplement #05 – Beyond Utopia
2012
English edition
The function of utopian thinking in urban planning and spatial culture (based on the project by Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley).
Parole #2 - Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut (+ CD)
Parole #2 – Phonetic Skin / Phonetische Haut (+ CD)
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
Parole #2 explores the relationship of “skin” to language.
Site of Sound #2 - Of Architecture and the Ear (+ CD)
Site of Sound #2 – Of Architecture and the Ear (+ CD)
2011
English edition
In the cross-over between sound and architecture.
Brandon LaBelle - Lecture on Nothing (CD)
Brandon LaBelle
Lecture on Nothing (CD)
2011
A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).
Brandon LaBelle - The Sonic Body - Figures 1-12 (CD)
Brandon LaBelle
The Sonic Body – Figures 1-12 (CD)
2011
A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).
Surface Tension Supplement - Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection (+ CD)
Surface Tension Supplement #04 – Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection (+ CD)
2010
English edition
Sound and auditory experience as platforms for social meeting, urban intervention and environmental investigation.
Parole #1 - The Body of the Voice / Stimmkörper (+ CD)
Parole #1 – The Body of the Voice / Stimmkörper (+ CD)
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
currently out of stock
A collection of texts and works dealing with the materiality of language and highlighting the theme from various perspectives.
Leif Elggren - Death Travels Backwards (DVD)
Leif Elggren
Death Travels Backwards (DVD)
2009
A collection of works from 1999 to the present, delivering an important overview of the artist/musician's pursuit of the uncanny within the everyday.
Surface Tension Supplement - What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration
Surface Tension Supplement #02 – What remains of a building divided into equal parts and distributed for reconfiguration
2009
English edition
An investigation on the social and political dimensions of buildings and urban spaces, oferring multiple perspectives on the limits and creative possibilities of the built environment (edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle, with contributions by Rachel Allen, Ava Bromberg, Jesko Fezer & Mathias Heyden, Nis Rømer, CM von Hausswolff...).
Surface Tension Supplement - Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate social connection
Surface Tension Supplement #03 – Manual for the construction of a cart as a device to elaborate social connection
2009
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Identifying an intensified concern for place-based production in art and architecture, Surface Tension – Supplements addresses questions of site-specific art, public and architectural design, and location-based practice. This 3rd issue extends artistic research and work taking place since 2006 in Brazil.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
Brandon LaBelle
Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Memory (+ CD)
Brandon LaBelle
Radio Memory (+ CD)
2008
English edition
A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.
Radio Territories (+ CD)
Radio Territories (+ CD)
2007
English edition
“Radio Territories” seeks to open the book on radio's historical, medial, and aesthetical status.
Alessandro Bosetti - African Feedback (+ CD)
Alessandro Bosetti
African Feedback (+ CD)
2007
English edition
(last copies available!)
Audio project documenting the artist's travels in West Africa, pursuing cultural differences, the place of music, and the languages used to get at sound. Includes texts and audio CD.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Two Films (DVD)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Thomas Nordanstad
Two Films (DVD)
2006
(last copies available!)
Two films straddling the line between documentary and audio-visual meditations on landscape.
VJ Vera Lukásová - Carpets Curtains (DVD)
Ivan Palacký, VJ Vera Lukásová
Carpets Curtains (DVD)
2006
Live audio “micro-improvisations” combined with live video manipulations.
Surface Tension Supplement
Surface Tension Supplement #01
2006
English edition
Identifying an intensified concern for place-based production in art and architecture, Surface Tension – Supplements addresses questions of site-specific art, public and architectural design, and location-based practice.
One Reason To Live - Conversations about Music with Julius Nil
One Reason To Live – Conversations about Music with Julius Nil
2006
English edition
Including conversations with David Toop, Scanner, Brandon LaBelle, Ken Vandermark, Kaffe Matthews, Steven Connor, John Parish, Ben Watson, Simon Critchley, Andrew Morgan, Esther Leslie, Eric Roth, Andrew McGettigan, and Seth Kim-Cohen.
Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform (+ CD)
Christof Migone
Sound Voice Perform (+ CD)
2005
English edition
This first monograph documents the performance, sound, and video works of the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
Social Music (+ CD)
Social Music (+ CD)
2002
English edition
Project catalogue documenting radio series commissioned by Kunstradio, Vienna, 2001, containing texts, images and audio by the artists, with an introduction by Brandon LaBelle and foreword by Barbara Schroeder from Kunstradio, with an audio compilation on CD.
Jacqueline Caux - Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari
Jacqueline Caux
Almost Nothing with Luc Ferrari
2013
English edition
sold out
Interviews with texts and imaginary autobiographies by Luc Ferrari: the first book to offer a comprehensive and insightful look into the work and career of one the most pioneering music composers of the second half of the 20th century.
Christof Migone - Sonic Somatic - Performances of the Unsound Body
Christof Migone
Sonic Somatic – Performances of the Unsound Body
2012
English edition
sold out
A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.
Allen S. Weiss - Varieties of Audio Mimesis - Musical Evocations of Landscape
Allen S. Weiss
Varieties of Audio Mimesis – Musical Evocations of Landscape
2008
English edition
sold out
An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.
John Duncan -
John Duncan
2006
English edition
sold out
Monograph with selected artworks, audio, installations and performances from Duncan's different periods of work, with descriptions of his most significant events, illustrated with photos and drawings, many of which will be published for the first time. Includes many articles, and a CD of Duncan's audio work.
Yasunao Tone - Noise Media Language (+ CD)
Yasunao Tone
Noise Media Language (+ CD)
2006
English edition
sold out
Reference monograph: an overview of a sound art pionner's career through documentation of seminal projects, including a CD of works ranging from early performance experiments to current digital projects.
Brandon LaBelle - Site Specific Sound (+ CD)
Brandon LaBelle
Site Specific Sound (+ CD)
2004
English edition
sold out
Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, exploring the relationship between sound and space.
Surface Tension - Problematics of Site (+ CD)
Surface Tension – Problematics of Site (+ CD)
2003
English edition
sold out
At a time when questions of “place” are active in dialogues around globalization, cultural identities, and the loss of public space, how are artists, theorists, and architects imagining space? “Surface Tension” examines the conversations that occur as negotiations between cultural production and the place of its reception.
Writing Aloud - The Sonics of Language (+ CD)
Writing Aloud – The Sonics of Language (+ CD)
2001
English edition
sold out
An anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.
Site of Sound - Of Architecture and the Ear (+ CD)
Site of Sound – Of Architecture and the Ear (+ CD)
1999
English edition
sold out
An anthology focusing on architectural and acoustic space, sound sculpture, field/environmental investigation and recording, and site-specificity, featuring writings, visual works, interviews and artist projects by leading experimental composers, sound-artists, architects, contemporary authors, cartographers, and ecologists.
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