MAKING THE WALLS QUAKE… THE BOOK

Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with a secret knowledge of great powers


Reader on architecture, sound and listening

Edited by Michał Libera and Lidia Klein
Published by Zachęta National Gallery of Art
Distributed by Motto

Table of contents

Georges Perec, On the Stairs, I
Michał Libera, Counter-Eavesdropping
Lidia Klein, Getting Buildings To Talk

--- Sounds in Architecture: reverberation

Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Hearing Architecture
Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room
Bruce R. Smith, Within the Wooden O
Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet, Stones, Air, Axioms
Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter, Acoustic Archaeologists Interpret Ancient Spaces
Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
Bernhard Leitner, Sound Space Manifesto

--- Sounds Through Architecture: eavesdropping

Bernhard Leitner in conversation with Eugen Blume, Sound as Building Material
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?
Georges Teyssot, Architecture as Membrane
Jonathan Sterne, Machines to Hear for Them
Branden W. Joseph, John Cage and the Architecture of Silence
Alvin Lucier, Shelter
David Toop, Architectural Sound
Toshiya Tsunoda, On Sound and Architecture
Lamberto Tronchin, Athanasius Kircher’s Phonurgia Nova
John L. Locke, Flimsy Architecture
Emily Thompson, Acoustical Materials and Modern Acoustics
Eric La Casa, AIR.ratio
Karin Bijsterveld, A Wall of Sound
Eric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet, House
John L. Locke, English Eaves
Emily Thompson, Noise Abatement as Acoustical Reform
Bohumil Hrabal, The Tender Barbarian
Paweł Mościcki, Sounding-With

--- Sounds of Architecture: vibration

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp
Shelley Trower, Psychophysical Sensations and Spiritual Vibrations
Shelley Trower, Street Noises
Florence McLandburgh, The Automaton Ear
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Physics has found no straight lines…
Steve Goodman, 1738: Bad Vibrations, 1884: Dark Precursor, 1999: Vibrational Anarchitecture
Mark Bain in conversation with Kamil Antosiewicz and Jan Tomza, Vibrations in Brown
Francisco López and Klaus Schuwerk, Tonhaus
Katarzyna Krakowiak in conversation with Michał Libera, What Makes a Sound Sculpture?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection