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Module 03 Lava Rites
"Module 03 Lava Rites" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
This is due to the extensive use of homophony and the sonic erasure of boundaries between the beginnings and endings of the words. Therefore, each decryption will necessarily be artificial. Modules 1-3 Amy Ireland and Raphael Gadot 2013, 2019 3D printed polyamide, 3D rendering Amy Ireland was commissioned by the Barbican to create an intervention within the pages of the catalogue.
Definition · paragraph 1
Module 1 and Module 2 are photographs of the 3D poems, which were printed in black polyamide in 2013. The poems have previously been published open source, enabling the decentralisation of printing technology and what Ireland refers to as the ‘weaponisation of poetry’.
Definition · paragraph 1
Three xenopoetic interventions are featured in the first pages of this catalogue. Titled Module 1, Module 2, and Module 3, these works are poems that have been deconstructed from their original forms in linear lan- guage into 3D ‘flowers’ – computer-generated objects made up of pictorial synaesthetic phonemes.
History · paragraph 1
Titled Module 1, Module 2, and Module 3, these works are poems that have been deconstructed from their original forms in linear lan- guage into 3D ‘flowers’ – computer-generated objects made up of pictorial synaesthetic phonemes. Module 1 and Module 2 are photographs of the 3D poems, which were printed in black polyamide in 2013.
History · paragraph 1
Module 1 and Module 2 are photographs of the 3D poems, which were printed in black polyamide in 2013.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.