Sonic Acts XIII. The poetics of space : Spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology. Amsterdam, 25 – 28 February 2010

The title of the thirteenth Sonic Acts Festival, The Poetics of Space, is derived from the English translation of the book La Poétique de l’Espace (1958) by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. In this work Bachelard meticulously describes the influence of space and architecture on humans and implicitly argues for a new type of architecture based on experience and imagination, an approach that is not only rooted in science or functionality.
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THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2010
17:00-19:00 Festival Opening Performative Lecture by Brandon LaBelle
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Exploring the relation of voice and location, LaBelle’s performative lecture unpacks the ambiguities of presence and mediation. How does speech come to enact a spatial proposal through its insistence on the here and now? And what forms of intimacy can be found within recorded voices and their circulation? To unfold such questions, LaBelle will draw upon recent research in electronic geographies and the materialization of voice, ultimately aiming to capture the fuzzy movements of a sonic body.