Reading List for Listening

The following is a proposed list for further readings on/for/with/around the subject of listening. Originally compiled with help from the contributors to Anthology for Listening Vol. II. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we aim to updated it accordingly with encountering other publications. There exist many more, and other, resources (also in languages other than English).

Ahmed, S. (2007). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press.
Atkinson, F., Bismuth, J., Kaplan, S. & Sérandour, Y. (eds.) (2019). Speaking and Listening. Rennes: Shelter Press.
Barlow, A. (ed.) (2016). What Now? The Politics of Listening. London: Black Dog Publishing.
Bassel, L. (2017). The politics of listening: Possibilities and challenges for democratic life. Palgrave.
Belinfante, S. & Kohlmaier, J. (eds.) (2016). The Listening Reader. London: Cours de Poétique.
Bickford, S. (1996). The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship. New York: Cornell University Press.
Biserna, E. (ed.) (2022). Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking. Brussels: umland editions.
Blesser, B. & Salter, L.-R. (2007). Spaces speak, are you listening? Experiencing aural architecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press.
Bonnet, F. J. (2021). The Music to Come. Rennes: Shelter Press.
Brown, A. M. (2017). Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing World. Chico, California: AK Press.
Brown, A. M. (2021). Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation. Chico, California: AK Press.
Butera, M. (2011). “Sound for Thought: Listening as Metabolism” in SoundEffects vol. 1 no. 1.
Cage, J. (1973) [1961]. Silence. Lectures and Writings. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
Campt, T. (2017). Listening to Images. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Carlyle, A. & Lane, C. (eds.) (2013). On Listening. Devon: Uniform Books.
Cascella, D. (2012). En abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction. London: Zero Books.
Chattopadhyay, B. (2020). The Nomadic Listener. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
Dobson, A. (2014). Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dragičević, N. (2024). Auditory poverty and its discontents. Errant Bodies Press.
English, L. (2017). Relational Listening: A Politics of Perception. In: Contemporary Music Review 36:1-16.
Farinati, L. & Firth, C. (2017). The Force of Listening. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
Federici, S. (2020). Beyond the periphery of the skin: Rethinking, remaking, and reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. PM Press.
Fiumara, G. C. (1990). The Other Side of Language: A philosophy of listening. London: Routledge.
Ghouse, N. & Holmes, B. (eds.) (2022). An Archaeology of Listening: Coming to Know. Volume 2. Berlin: Archive Books.
Glissant, É. (2010) [1990]. Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. Michigan: Michigan University Press.
Graham, C. (2023). Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
Grose, A. & Young, R. B. (2022). Uneasy Listening. Notes on Hearing & Being Heard. London: MACK.
Guerra, L. (2022). Wandering Echoes: Handbook of Operative Losses. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
Ingold, T. (2011). Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge.
Irigaray, L. (2004). The way of love. Continuum.
Israel, M. (2022). Dead People Whispering. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
Krause, B. (2012). The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
LaBelle, B. (2014). Lexicon of the Mouth. Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary. New York: Bloomsbury.
LaBelle, B. (2021). Acoustic Justice. Listening, Performativity, and the Work of Reorientation. New York: Bloomsbury.
LaBelle, B. (2022). Radical Sympathy. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
LaBelle, B. (ed.) (2023). The Listening Biennial Reader. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
LaBelle, B. (2025). Poetics of listening. Bloomsbury.
LaBelle, B. (2025). On third listening. The Listening Biennial.
Lipari, L. (2014). Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lockwood, A. & Anderson, R. (2021). Hearing Studies. Red Hook, New York: Open Space.
Løkkegaard, N. L. (2020). Anthology of Sound. Self-published.
McRae, C. (2020). Performative Listening. In: The Handbook of Listening. Worthington, D. & Graham, B. (eds.) New York: Wiley.
Medina Poch, D. (2022). Untamed listening: Reflections on the undomestication of our listening practices [Lecture-performance]. The Listening Biennial, Berlin.
Nancy, J.-L. (2007) [2002]. Listening. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York: Fordham University Press.
Nirta, C., Philoppoulos-Mihalopoulos, A., Mandic, D., & Pavoni, A. (Eds.) (2023). Law and the Senses: HEAR. (Law and the Senses). London: University of Westminster Press..
Oliveros, P. (1973). Sonic Meditations. Smith Publications.
Oliveros, P. (2005). Deep Listening. A Composer’s Sound Practice. Kingston: Deep Listening Publications.
Oliveros, P. (2022) [2010]. Quantum Listening. Lima: Ignota Books.
Preciado, P. B. (2021) [2020]. Can the Monsters Speak? Trans. Frank Wynne. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Ratcliffe, Krista and Kyle Jensen (2022). Rhetorical Listening in Action: A Concept-Tactic Approach. Parlor Press.
Robinson, D. (2020). Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Schafer, R. M. (1994). The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books.
Shah, R. (2021). Experiments in Listening. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
Strauss, C. F. (ed.) (2016). Slow Reader. Amsterdam: Valiz.
Strauss, C. F. (ed.) (2021). Slow Spatial Reader – Chronicles of Radical Affection. Amsterdam: Valiz.
Sundar, P. (2023). Listening with a feminist ear: Soundwork in Bombay cinema. University of Michigan Press.
Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Twemlow, A. (ed.) (2021). Listening: Research Method in Art and Design. The Hague: Royal Academy of Art (KABK).
van Maas, S. (ed.) (2015). Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space. New York: Fordham University Press.
Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to Noise and Silence. Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. New York: Continuum.
Voegelin, S. (2018). The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Reading List for Listening

Reading List for Listening

Ahmed, S. (2007). Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press.

Atkinson, F., Bismuth, J., Kaplan, S. & Sérandour, Y. (eds.) (2019). Speaking and Listening. Rennes: Shelter Press.

Barlow, A. (ed.) (2016). What Now? The Politics of Listening. London: Black Dog Publishing.

Bassel, L. (2017). The politics of listening: Possibilities and challenges for democratic life. Palgrave.

Belinfante, S. & Kohlmaier, J. (eds.) (2016). The Listening Reader. London: Cours de Poétique.

Bickford, S. (1996). The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship. New York: Cornell University Press.

Biserna, E. (ed.) (2022). Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking. Brussels: umland editions.

Blesser, B. & Salter, L.-R. (2007). Spaces speak, are you listening? Experiencing aural architecture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: MIT Press.

Bonnet, F. J. (2021). The Music to Come. Rennes: Shelter Press.

Brown, A. M. (2017). Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing World. Chico, California: AK Press.

Brown, A. M. (2021). Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation. Chico, California: AK Press.

Butera, M. (2011). “Sound for Thought: Listening as Metabolism” in SoundEffects vol. 1 no. 1.

Cage, J. (1973) [1961]. Silence. Lectures and Writings. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Campt, T. (2017). Listening to Images. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Carlyle, A. & Lane, C. (eds.) (2013). On Listening. Devon: Uniform Books.

Cascella, D. (2012). En abîme: Listening, Reading, Writing. An Archival Fiction. London: Zero Books.

Chattopadhyay, B. (2020). The Nomadic Listener. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

Dobson, A. (2014). Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dragičević, N. (2024). Auditory poverty and its discontents. Errant Bodies Press.

English, L. (2017). Relational Listening: A Politics of Perception. In: Contemporary Music Review 36:1-16.

Farinati, L. & Firth, C. (2017). The Force of Listening. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

Federici, S. (2020). Beyond the periphery of the skin: Rethinking, remaking, and reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. PM Press.

Fiumara, G. C. (1990). The Other Side of Language: A philosophy of listening. London: Routledge.

Ghouse, N. & Holmes, B. (eds.) (2022). An Archaeology of Listening: Coming to Know. Volume 2. Berlin: Archive Books.

Glissant, É. (2010) [1990]. Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. Michigan: Michigan University Press.

Graham, C. (2023). Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

Grose, A. & Young, R. B. (2022). Uneasy Listening. Notes on Hearing & Being Heard. London: MACK.

Guerra, L. (2022). Wandering Echoes: Handbook of Operative Losses. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

Ingold, T. (2011). Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge.

Irigaray, L. (2004). The way of love. Continuum.

Israel, M. (2022). Dead People Whispering. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

Krause, B. (2012). The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

LaBelle, B. (2014). Lexicon of the Mouth. Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary. New York: Bloomsbury.

LaBelle, B. (2021). Acoustic Justice. Listening, Performativity, and the Work of Reorientation. New York: Bloomsbury.

LaBelle, B. (2022). Radical Sympathy. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

LaBelle, B. (ed.) (2023). The Listening Biennial Reader. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.

LaBelle, B. (2025). Poetics of listening. Bloomsbury.

LaBelle, B. (2025). On third listening. The Listening Biennial.

Lipari, L. (2014). Listening, Thinking, Being: Toward an Ethics of Attunement. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lockwood, A. & Anderson, R. (2021). Hearing Studies. Red Hook, New York: Open Space.

Løkkegaard, N. L. (2020). Anthology of Sound. Self-published.

McRae, C. (2020). Performative Listening. In: The Handbook of Listening. Worthington, D. & Graham, B. (eds.) New York: Wiley.

Medina Poch, D. (2022). Untamed listening: Reflections on the undomestication of our listening practices [Lecture-performance]. The Listening Biennial, Berlin.

Nancy, J.-L. (2007) [2002]. Listening. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York: Fordham University Press.

Nirta, C., Philoppoulos-Mihalopoulos, A., Mandic, D., & Pavoni, A. (Eds.) (2023). Law and the Senses: HEAR. (Law and the Senses). London: University of Westminster Press..

Oliveros, P. (1973). Sonic Meditations. Smith Publications.

Oliveros, P. (2005). Deep Listening. A Composer’s Sound Practice. Kingston: Deep Listening Publications.

Oliveros, P. (2022) [2010]. Quantum Listening. Lima: Ignota Books.

Preciado, P. B. (2021) [2020]. Can the Monsters Speak? Trans. Frank Wynne. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Ratcliffe, Krista and Kyle Jensen (2022). Rhetorical Listening in Action: A Concept-Tactic Approach. Parlor Press.

Robinson, D. (2020). Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Schafer, R. M. (1994). The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books.

Shah, R. (2021). Experiments in Listening. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Strauss, C. F. (ed.) (2016). Slow Reader. Amsterdam: Valiz.

Strauss, C. F. (ed.) (2021). Slow Spatial Reader – Chronicles of Radical Affection. Amsterdam: Valiz.

Sundar, P. (2023). Listening with a feminist ear: Soundwork in Bombay cinema. University of Michigan Press.

Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Twemlow, A. (ed.) (2021). Listening: Research Method in Art and Design. The Hague: Royal Academy of Art (KABK).

van Maas, S. (ed.) (2015). Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space. New York: Fordham University Press.

Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to Noise and Silence. Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art. New York: Continuum.

Voegelin, S. (2018). The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening. London: Bloomsbury Academic.