Brandon LaBelle is Professor of New Media at The Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway, as well as an artist and writer working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. His books Background Noise, Second Edition (2015) and Lexicon of the Mouth (2014) are published by Bloomsbury Academic. He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, and an associated Professor at the Autonimia Akadimia, Athens.

[An] important text for anyone involved in any form of sound studies.

• Preface to the Second EditionIntroductionChapter 1: Underground: Busking, Acousmatics, and the EchoChapter 2: Home: Ethical Volumes of Silence and NoiseChapter 3: Sidewalk: Steps, Gait, and Rhythmic Journey-FormsChapter 4: Street: Auditory Latching, Cars, and the Dynamics of VibrationChapter 5: Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of FeedbackChapter 6: Sky: Radio, Spatial Urbanism, and Cultures of TransmissionEpilogue: Queer Listening, Acoustic Justice, and Acts of CompositioningNotesBibliographyIndex

Brandon LaBelle is Professor of New Media at The Art Academy, University of Bergen, Norway, as well as an artist and writer working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. His books Background Noise, Second Edition (2015) and Lexicon of the Mouth (2014) are published by Bloomsbury Academic. He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, and an associated Professor at the Autonimia Akadimia, Athens.

[An] important text for anyone involved in any form of sound studies.

• Preface to the Second EditionIntroductionChapter 1: Underground: Busking, Acousmatics, and the EchoChapter 2: Home: Ethical Volumes of Silence and NoiseChapter 3: Sidewalk: Steps, Gait, and Rhythmic Journey-FormsChapter 4: Street: Auditory Latching, Cars, and the Dynamics of VibrationChapter 5: Shopping Mall: Muzak, Mishearing, and the Productive Volatility of FeedbackChapter 6: Sky: Radio, Spatial Urbanism, and Cultures of TransmissionEpilogue: Queer Listening, Acoustic Justice, and Acts of CompositioningNotesBibliographyIndex