Ear | Wave | Event (Issue 1)

<p><i>Ear │ Wave │ Event</i> is tired of hearing that music or sound is beyond language or outside meaning. <i>Ear │ Wave │ Event </i>can’t deal with another hymn to the ethicality of hearing. <i>Ear │ Wave │ Event</i> will scream if another art historian reports “discovering” sound.   <i>Ear │ Wave │ Event</i> does not consider the descriptive cataloguing of audio recordings as criticism. <i> Ear │ Wave │ Event</i> was founded because there is a growing community of artistic practitioners and theorists who are eager to come together and address those strains of sonic intelligence (material, intellectual, other) that are too often drowned out by the perpetually rediscovered euphoria of sound’s “mystery.”</p> <p>Our premiere issue might be read as a collection of attempts to theoretically frame problems of sonic thinking and articulation (Ablinger, Cimini/Sullender, Griffin, Feldman, Barrett/Lodhie) along with a battery of alternative genealogies for musical practice and thought offering ways out of what feels more and more like the dead-lock of the “sound” scene (Marble, Rosenfeld, Strakovsky, Griffin, Hennix, Ablinger). As these brackets show, both moves (critical and historical) often occur within the same texts, and are at times indistinguishable.</p>