Engineer's Daughter

soundhouse: intimacy and distance

Looking at visual art online has proved a thoroughly unsatisfying pandemic experience for me, but thankfully the same is not true for my experience of music and sound. London's Barbican has prepared an engaging online iteration of their Soundhouse series that specifically addresses how the isolation and social distancing of the past year has affected our listening habits. Curators Arlie Adlington, Ariana Martinez, and Axel Kacoutié have selected podcasts and other audio works that play on continuous loops in three online "rooms" that the virtual visitor can move among almost as if they were in the Barbican galleries themselves. The site also includes extensive notes and links out to the audio sources, so you might just discover a new favorite podcast or sound artist.

• Soundhouse: Intimacy and Distance

input january 2021

Books

The Gimmicks - Chris McCormick

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America - Marcia Chatelain

 

Movies

Time - Garrett Bradley

The Greatest Showman - Michael Gracey

Finding Christa - Camille Billops and James Hatch

Suzanne, Suzanne - Camille Billops and James Hatch

Older Women and Love - Camille Billops and James Hatch

Take Your Bags - Camille Billops and James Hatch

The KKK Boutique Ain't Just Rednecks - Camille Billops and James Hatch

A String of Pearls - Camille Billops and James Hatch

Boyz n the Hood - John Singleton

Soul - Pete Docter

A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick

Ernest & Celestine - Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner

Monsoon Wedding - Mira Nair

 

Streaming

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Community

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