Sound Publisher's Errant Bodies ...

Errant Bodies: publishing as practice (Berlin)

Errant Bodies-Publishing

Has been publishing books and CDs on sound art, auditory issues, and forms of performative and spatial practice since 1995. Initially as a literary journal, Errant Bodies has developed its publishing practice into a number of series dedicated to developing discourses on sound, locational practice, and performance by supporting practitioners and thinkers alike. Such work reflects an overall interest to generate communicational exchanges, recognizing the book and CD as meeting places for virtual communities.

Errant Bodies-critical ear

A series of monographs featuring contemporary artists working with sound, experimental music and media. The series highlights and documents the often under-represented field of sound art, with a view to fostering discourse on the subject and related auditory issues. The series articulates parameters while accentuating diversity of approaches, bringing forward those whose work advances the use of sound through multi-media presentations. 

Errant Bodies-audio issues

Book series dedicated to essays, meditations, and performance-texts on sound, auditory culture, and questions of sonological understanding. The series aims to provide a context for addressing contemporary viewpoints on "sound studies" by probing, defining, and listening in to the acoustical paradigm. With the advent of digital culture, network society, and mobile communications, the emergence of an auditory culture is increasingly prevalent as witnessed in the aesthetics of sound-art and electronic music, web-radio and live audio streaming, interactive and responsive systems. The prominence of such aesthetical shifts parallels an epistemological transformation from “seeing is believing” to a globe of voices: the digital age is marked by a re-emergence of oral culture from print culture; a displacement of fixed boundaries as witnessed in “liquid” architectures; and a radiophonic disruption of forms of representation, turning static graphics upon the page into animated expressions. Audio-Issues functions to engage such transformations by fostering new modes of thinking, writing, and performing the auditory.