New modes
of listening and methods for contemporary sound art practices
Our contemporary, globalised society demands new forms
of listening. But what are these new forms? In
Listening to the Other, Stefan Östersjö challenges conventional
understandings of the ways musicians listen. He develops a transmodal
understanding of listening that is situated in the body a body that is extended
by its mediation through musical instruments and other technologies. Listening
habits can turn these tools and even the body itself into resistant objects or
musical Others. Supported by extensive multimedia documentation and drawing on
examples from the author’s own artistic projects spanning electronics,