Hearing Bodies in Flight

By Darren Bourne
Source: Flesh and Text , pp 90-95
Publication Date: April 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950715_16
Language: English

He recalls his collaboration with Bodies in Flight on three shows - Beautiful Losers, Littluns Wake, Constants, the development of the shows’ sonic elements in rehearsal and in the sound studio, his use of technology, and how the process connects to his ongoing exploration of the nature and meaning of sound and music.

Keywords: collaborating as sound artist in the rehearsal process ; creating soundscapes for performance ; development of sound technology in the 1990s ; techniques for building sound effects ; the function of music and sound in the everyday ; touring sound rigs

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Excerpts from ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ from Beautiful Losers are available on Bandcamp: https://halfunusual.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-losers. Accessed 7 May 2024 .

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Cage, John (1994), Silence: Lectures and Writings, London: Marion Boyars.
[Google Scholar]
Derrida, Jacques , Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty and Butler, Judith (1976), Of Grammatology, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
[Google Scholar]
Eno, Brian and Mills, Russell (1986), More Dark Than Shark, London: Faber and Faber.
[Google Scholar]
Paynter, John (1992), Sound and Structure, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Google Scholar]
Wishart, Trevor (1985), On Sonic Art, York: Imagineering Press.
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Excerpts from ‘Heaven’ and ‘Hell’ from Beautiful Losers are available on Bandcamp: https://halfunusual.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-losers. Accessed 7 May 2024 .

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