Brandon Labelle
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer, working with sound, people, places and contextual strategies. His work explores the space between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as creative supplements to existing conditions.
He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum 2006). Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear (1999), Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (2001), Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (2003) and Radio Territories (2007), along with a series of monographs (Critical Ear series) on sound and media artists.
As an artist he is active in the fields of sound installation, performance and public interventions. His work has been featured internationally, including the exhibitions and festivals Sampling Rage, at Podewil Berlin (1999), Sound as Media, at ICC Tokyo (2000), Bitstreams, at the Whitney Museum New York (2001), Pleasure of Language, at Netherlands Media Art Institute Amsterdam (2002), Undercover, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde (2003), Radio Revolten, a festival on radio, Halle (2006), Copo da Voce, Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (2008), and Tuned City, a festival on sound and architecture, Berlin (2008).
In addition he presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005), and his Prototypes for the Mobilization and Broadcast of Fugitive Sound was exhibited at the Enrico Fornello gallery, Prato, in 2007.
His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories was presented at Casa Vecina, Mexico City in 2008. He also collaborates within the collective working group, Surface Tension, and within the working team, e+l. He has numerous audio releases on international experimental music labels, and regularly produces works for radio.
