Christof Migone is a Swiss-born experimental

sound artist Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...

and writer, formerly based in

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, now living in

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. He is assistant professor at the Department of Visual Arts at the

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Migone's solo recordings include ''Sound Voice Perform'' (2006), ''South Winds'' (2003), ''Crackers'' (2001), ''Quieting'' (2000), ''The Death of Analogies'' (1999), ''vex'' (1998) and ''Hole in the Head'' (1996). All of which were recorded on various labels: Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, and Oral. His writing on audio art has appeared in ''EAR'' magazine, ''Radiotext(e)'', ''Radio Rethink'', ''

Theater Drama Review Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...

'', ''Parachute'', ''Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear'', ''Experimental Sound and Radio'' edited by

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, ''Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language'', ''S:ON Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art'' edited by Nicole Gingras, and ''Aural Cultures'' edited by

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. In ''Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body'', Migone proposed a form of aesthetic

sonic philosophy Sonic philosophy or the philosophy of sound is a philosophical theory that proposes thinking sonically instead of thinking about sound. It is applied in ontology or the investigation of being and the determination of what exists. The materialist ...

, which explored how sound shapes and disrupts the way art shifted from subject to object through to the abject.Sewell, Stacey (January 2015). "Reviewed Work: Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body by Christof Migone". ''Tempo''. 69(271): 97 – via JSTOR. He was a founding member of the audio based artist-run center Avatar in

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. Avatar releases audio projects by artists under the name Ohm/Avatar.

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External links

Official siteUniversity of Toronto research profileBlackwood Gallery
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