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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THE MUSEUM OF RHYTHM (2018) • The Museum of Rhythm is a speculative institution that engages rhythm as a tool for interrogating the foundations of modernity and the sensual complex of time in daily experience. When entering a larger cultural infrastructure such as the art museum, it juxtaposes modern and contemporary art with ethnographic research, cinema, music, and scientific instruments to set in resonance a critical apparatus and conduct exercises in Rhythmanalysis. • This book, and the exhibition upon which it is based, is an outcome of durational research that sees art as one of the means by which the ideologies of rhythm are implemented. Hence alongside artworks it, by necessity, includes objects, films, and documents connected with the history of the development of time measurement, labor monitoring devices, choreography, and music practice, which enable the human being to experience more complex rhythms. • The book includes visual documentation of the exhibition as well as essays and texts by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Erick Beltrán, Robert Brain, Francisco Camacho Herrera, Natasha Ginwala, Robert Horvitz, Ken Jacobs, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ernst Mach, Angela Melitopoulos, Daniel Muzyczuk, Nana Oforiatta-Ayim, Jean Painlevé, Forrestine Paulay, Kathleen Rivera, Simon Schaffer, Georg Simmel, Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen Willats, and Jason Young. • Available via our website and in the bookshop. • #worldfoodbooks #themuseumofrhythm #sternbergpress #hansrichter #lawrenceabuhamdan #erickbeltran #nanaoforiattaayim #ernstmach #stephenwillats #angelamelitopoulos #danielmuzyczuk #wadadaleosmith #jeanpainleve #franciscocamachoherrera #kenjacobs #natashaginwala #simonschaeffer #manray #hannedarboven (at WORLD FOOD BOOKS)

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In one of a kind exhibition in Beirut, Esma’/Listen was inaugurated yesterday at Beirut Art Center featuring 16 artists and composers from Beirut and around the world that develop concepts and techniques of contemporary listening. Curated by Marcella Lista and Marie Muracciole, the exhibition translates different sounds into visual waves, senses and movements, giving the audience an extraordinary experience beyond the traditional listening. 

“The project is inspired by a series of experiments that are happening at MIT, in which they realized that by using high-speed video to record the surfaces of objects, they could recover the sound that those objects were hearing—the sound of the speech hitting this bag could be recovered from the surface of the bag itself. The best sound-recording objects they found are potato chip packets because their surfaces are both impressionable and non-absorbent, so they leave traces of the vibrations attached to them. In the context of the fair, I think it’s interesting because, unlike auctions, where the prices are spoken aloud, the fair has other conventions of speech: how you speak about prices, and how things are negotiated are much more subtle, much less audible. So I like the idea that these chips packets almost become like a rumor that spreads throughout the fair, that there are these objects that are listening to people.”

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