Covermotiv: Iannis Xenaxis, study for Polytope de Cluny (light trajectory diagrams), c. 1972. With kind permission by les Amis de Xenakis. All rights reserved. For the cover, the original drawing was processed by Beton.
The Akademie Schloss Solitude is very pleased to announce the publication of the 5th edition of the Solitude Journal – A Sound Was Heard! The journal is now available online and can be ordered as a print edition.
The Solitude Journal 5 – A Sound Was Heard! is dedicated to our acoustic environment, sounds and noises, and the different ways in which sound affects the body, travels through space and time, and shapes our perception.
The idea for the journal emerged from the 19th Web Residency, Algorithmic Poetry, which focused on the harmonic dissonance that connects sonic and poetic traditions to contemporary sound practices, with a particular emphasis on the use of machine learning interventions to create sound as a poetic device. Solitude Journal 5 – A Sound Was Heard! expands on these resonant threads. It brings together voices of former fellows to explore the multiple affective, materialized, and intimate dimensions of sonic evocations that transcend aesthetic, audible, or linguistic signals.
Readers are invited to join an exploration of the sonic space’s polyphonic web in the varied contributions, audio-visual material, and experiments in the online journal.
With Moonis Ahmad & Hafsa Sayeed; selma banich; G Douglas Barrett; Merve Bedir & Asena Hayal; Maaz Bin Bilal; Robert Blatt; Ariel Bustamante & Germán Lázaro; crys cole, Lukas Ludwig, Johanna Markert & James Rushford; Jazmina Figueroa; Carlos Gutiérrez; Judith Hamann; Nicole L‘Huillier & Denise Helene Sumi; Ege Kanar; Clara Latham; Dzekashu MacViban & Edna Martinez; Niki Matita; Sarvenaz Mostofey; Victoria Myronyuk; Viron Erol Vert & Matteo Pasquinelli; Luke Wilkins
Co-Editors: Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi
Proofreading: Kimberly Bradley
Final Proof: Kenneth Constance Loe
Graphic Design: beton.studio
All readers are invited to explore the different contributions with additional audio and audiovisual material in the online journal.
If you like to order a printed copy for free, please get in touch with us here.
For the cover of Solitude Journal 4, Time After Time, Beton.Studio processed a drawing from the series Studies in Aqueous Time by former fellow Zahra Malkani. We would like to thank the artist for the possibility to use one of her drawings as the cover subject. Reproductions of the original drawings can be found in the journal.
Covermotiv: Iannis Xenaxis, study for Polytope de Cluny (light trajectory diagrams), c. 1972. With kind permission by les Amis de Xenakis. All rights reserved. For the cover, the original drawing was processed by Beton.
Photo: Vivek Hari Sridhar