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Background Image: D. Furness, Wellcome Trust
Background Image: D.Furness, Wellcome Trust

Below you will find a selection of texts and references that informed our research

Link to a dancing hair cell: https://auditoryneuroscience.com/ear/dancing_hair_cell

Link to the Ear Institute and their Taster Course in Audiology: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/study/audiology-taster-course

Link to Anatomy of Human Body by Henri Gray: https://archive.org/details/anatomyofhumanbo1918g  from page 1029 onwards

Link to How Do We Listen? An Interview with New Music Curator Kamila Metwalyhttps://www.on-curating.org/issue-44-reader/how-do-we-listen-an-interview-with-new-music-curator-kamila-metwaly.html#.YcCaxiynxp9

Link to Inventions of Sound: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t4km see also transcript

 

Links to writings on Kodwo Eshun and The Otolith Group: 

Jan 27th, 2017  McKenzie Wark https://publicseminar.org/2017/01/black-accelerationism/

Nov 20th, 2012 Beatrice Ferrara. http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2012/11/29/%E2%80%9Cmy-measurement-of-race-is-rate-of-vibration%E2%80%9D-afrofuturism-and-the-%E2%80%98molecularization%E2%80%99-of-race/

Link to The Sound of Deafness: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00y4pg4

Link to article by musicologist and philosopher Lawrence Kramer May2nd, 2020. : https://thequietus.com/articles/28198-lawrence-kramer-covid19-essay

after reading the article, Petra comes across diary notes from 2011:  

Zendai Diary Monday Day 6

I wanted to explore the role of dancers, in ancient times, I saw it as the ones who would make movements not to please an audience but to set the air in motion which would then by touching prepared wind instruments set off a sound, a melody

Their bodies would move to play a melody not to please the eye. 

 

 

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Papers
Farmer, P. 2020. Soft Doorshttps://www.zenopress.com/essays/soft-doors-patrick-farmer
Hsu, E.  2007. The Body Ecologic in Holistic Anthropology Chapter 4
Needham, J  1962 Science and Civilisation In China Vol 4 Physics Part 1 p.126 onwards (h) Sound

Peck, J.E. 1994  Development of Hearing Part II  Embryology  J Am Acad Audiologists 5: 359-365
Patterson, M. 2015 Intimate Listening ‘Emotional Geographies’ Conference at University of Edinburgh

Books
Wright, T. in Graham, J (ed) 2006. Ballantyne's Deafness. Chapter 3; p. 20-30


Being Human Festival Performance Coventry University November 2021

 

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