Daniela Cascella

books . essays, reviews, other texts

• They Chant. Chant Its Endarkened Luminosity
  2024
  In The Last Lamentation: Valentina Medda, edited by Maria Paola Zedda
  Kunstverein Publishing Milano, Milano, Italy
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• I Want To Break Into The Leaping Sea
  2023
  A response to Voice of Hearing by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, commissioned by The Dim Coast for A Sound That Never Was.
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• Untitled
  2023
  A score for Tomoko Hojo's project Unfinished Descriptions.
  yoin press, Japan
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• Words Are My Warders But Don't Keep An I On Me (Words Are My Worders)
  2023
  Commissioned by Samuel Brzeski for the Vibrational Semantics project.
  Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
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• My Chimera
  2021
  In The Yellow Paper, n. 2
  Edited by Laura Haynes.
  Glasgow School of Art, Art Writing MLitt
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• A Bell for Cristina
  2021
  In Glossator, vol. 11
  Edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Andrea di Serego Alighieri.
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• Volumes
  2021
  In Firmament, vol. 1, no. 3
  Edited by Jessica Sequeira.
  Sublunary Editions, Seattle, WA
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• Voices, Subjects, Chimeras
  2021
  In A Table Made Again For the First Time, a collection of responses to Kate Briggs’s book This Little Art
  Edited by Francesco Pedraglio and Paul Becker.
  With contributions by Paul Becker, Kate Briggs, Daniela Cascella, Sophie Collins, Renée Gladman, Nadia Hebson, Rubén Martín Giráldez, Arno Renken, Alejandro Zambra.
  Juan De La Cosa, Mexico City, Mexico
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• 'Ah, the Violet.' Or Was It a Bell?
  2021
  In Setting A Bell Ringing
  An anthology with contributions by The Roland Barthes Reading Group.
  Edited by Sharon Kivland.
  MA Bibliothèque, London, UK
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• Various Small Thoughts (And A Lot of Time)
  2021
  Text in Steve Roden, gradual small fires (and a bowl of resonant milk), book+CD edition
  901 Editions, Roseto Degli Abruzzi, Italy
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• Untitled
  2020
  Text in Dominique Hurth, Mixtape, cassette and booklet edition
  Gallery Print, Berlin, Germany / T.A.P.E Muzik, Leipzig, Germany
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• The Perils Of Book Launch Parties
  2020
  In Roland Barthes's Party
  An anthology with contributions by The Roland Barthes Reading Group.
  MA Bibliothèque, London, UK
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• How Many Elsewheres? (For Four Voices)
  2020
  In Curriculum: Contemporary Art Goes to School
  An anthology edited by Jennie Guy.
  Intellect, Bristol, UK
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• The Stain Of Stein: For Chimeric Writing
  2019
  In Tinted Window, no. 2, Verbi-Voco-Visual issue
  https://tintedwindow.bigcartel.com
• Flowing, Slow, Violent—A Fantasy
  2019
  In We'll Never Have Paris, an anthology edited by Andrew Gallix
  Repeater Books, London, UK
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• Something More And Something Else: Language As Excess And Material
  2019
  Essay in Artistic Research and Literature, edited by Corina Caduff and Tan Wälchli, Wilhelm Fink Verlag
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• Spirit Training
  2018
  In Minor Literature[s], 13 July 2018
  A conversation with Tristan Foster.
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• Untranslated, Translated: Il Mare Non Bagna Napoli/Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese
  2018
  In Minor Literature[s], 7 March 2018
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• Hedges
  2018
  In Writing the Field Recording, edited by Stephen Benson and Will Montgomery
  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK
  https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-writing-the-field-recording-hb.html
• The Blank Page. Reading Isak Dinesen
  2017
  In Numéro Cinq, Vol. VIII, No. 4, April 2017
  A reading of Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen's The Blank Page, via Alejandra Pizarnik and an idea of Scheherazade.
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• Nights as Day, Days as Night by Michel Leiris
  2017
  In Minor Literature[s], 22 March 2017
  Review of Nights as Day, Days as Night by Michel Leiris.
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• Field of Heaven and Meteorites
  2016
  VOLT, Bergen, Norway
  Text on Signe Lidén, on The Imaginary Reader.
  www.v-o-l-t.no
• Beginning to Write After Clarice, After Clarice's (Echo and Dub Versions)
  2016
  In The Scofield, issue 2.1 - Clarice Lispector & The Act of Writing, Summer 2016
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• Le Statue d'Acqua by Fleur Jaeggy
  2016
  In Minor Literature[s], 9 September 2016
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• H.G.
  2016
  In Listening and Its Not
  An anthology published by Compost and Height and SARU, collecting a number of responses to a score by Patrick Farmer that invites people to travel 10 miles north of their home and to write about their experience of listening 'without pointing directly to it, or at it'.
  https://wolfnotes.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/new-publication-listening-and-its-not/
• The Swan Whisperer
  2016
  In Music & Literature
  My review of Marlene van Niekerk's Cahier.
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• The Secret Euphoria of Reading: On Roberto Calasso's Cento lettere a uno sconosciuto
  2015
  In 3:AM Magazine
  On Roberto Calasso's book blurbs and some early reading experiences.
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• Rhythms and Song
  2015
  In Reductive Four book, edited by Ryoko Akama, Daniel del Rio, Heather Frasch
  A text shaped by rhythms in reading, breathing, burned books, Twin Peaks' Nadine and Breton's Nadja, and a visit to the Agnes Martin show at Tate Modern.
  http://journal.reductivemusic.com
• Frames
  2015
  In Gorse, no. 4
  http://gorse.ie/frames/
  https://enabime.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/frames-mah-slideshow-song-gorse-4/
• Frames: Sketch for a Polyphony (After the Fire)
  2015
  In #1ShortStoryAnthology (Vanguard Editions)
  http://richardskinner.weebly.com/1shortstoryanthology.html
  https://enabime.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/breaking-into-frames/
• Records Ruin the Landscape
  Book review in Music & Literature, 17 March 2015
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• A Derangement of Footnotes
  2015
  In D A N C E H A L L, no. 10, February 2015
  Capriccio.
  Psykick Dancehall Recordings
• Sing, Singe, Singer
  2015
  Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman
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• Lakes, Sound, Sculpture, Really
  2014
  Wolf Notes #7, edited by Patrick Farmer and Sarah Hughes.
  http://wolfnotes.wordpress.com/wolf-notes/
• Untitled
  2014
  In Eavesdropping: Ursula Nistrup, edited by Cecilia Canziani, with contributions by D. Cascella, C. Canziani, Cevdet Erek, Ursula Andkjaer Olsen
  Cura Books, Rome, Italy
  www.curamagazine.com/?p=14983
• Konstellaatio
  2013
  Sähkö Recordings, Helsinki, Finland
  A text for Mika Vainio's recent CD on Sähkö.
  www.sahkorecordings.com/press/Sahko-28%20press%20release.pdf
• 'Something Missing': Notes on Writing Sound as Landscape and Mise-en-Abîme
  2013
  Leonardo Music Journal n. 23 / Sound Art Theories Symposium supplement
  Essay.
  www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/lmj/-/23
• Listening, Reading, Writing: a Case Study
  2013
  CRiSAP / UniformBooks, London / Devon, UK
  Essay in On Listening, edited by Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane.
  www.colinsackett.co.uk/onlistening.php?x=71&y=9
• Sound Objects: Pierre Schaeffer's "In Search of a Concrete Music"
  2013
  The Los Angeles Review of Books
  Essay.
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• The Fall of Chrome
  2013
  Musica Moderna, S. Vendemiano, Italy
  Text in Claudio Rocchetti, The Fall of Chrome, book and cassette edition.
  www.musica-moderna.org/releases/07.html
• Patrick Farmer
  Article in The Wire. Adventures In Sound And Music, #348, London, UK, February 2013
• The Whole Landscape Flushes on a Sudden at a Sound
  2012
  Fondazione Aurelio Pietroni, San Cipriano Picentino, Italy
  Short text in Viso come territorio / Face as Territory exhibition catalogue.
• Your Voice Has / Cosey Complex
  2012
  Koenig Books, Cologne, Germany
  Edited by Maria Fusco and Richard Birkett.
  'A major new publication shifting Cosey Fanni Tutti from noun to verb. This new book is the first major publication discussing and theorising Cosey as methodology'. Contributors include: Martin Bax, Gerard Byrne, Daniela Cascella, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Diedrich Diederichsen, Graham Duff, Anthony Elms, Chris Kraus, Patricia MacCormack, Clunie Reid, Rob Stone, Corin Sworn and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Designed by Zak Kyes.
  http://mariafusco.net/editing/cosey-complex-book/
• Luciano Chessa / Luigi Russolo
  Interview in Frieze Blog, London, UK, 18 July 2012
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• Sonic Somatic
  Review of Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body by Christof Migone in The Wire. Adventures In Sound And Music, #342, London, UK, August 2012
• Soundworks
  Review of Soundworks website in The Wire. Adventures In Sound And Music, #342, London, UK, August 2012
• Luigi Russolo, Futurist
  Review of Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Art and The Occult by Luciano Chessa in The Wire. Adventures In Sound And Music, #341, London, UK, July 2012
• Pauline Oliveros
  Article in Frieze Blog, London, UK, 21 May 2012
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• Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art
  Review of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art by Salomé Voegelin in The Journal of Sonic Studies, Leiden University Press, vol. 2, May 2012
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• John Wynne
  Review of Wynne's Installation no. 2 for High and Low Frequencies in frieze.com, Frieze, London, UK, 1 May 2012
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• Lines written at the end of a dream, when I encountered Leif Elggren's 'The Sudarium of St. Veronica'
  2011
  Psykick Dancehall Recordings / Put the Music in Its Coffin, Glasgow, UK
  Text for Leif Elggren's 'The Sudarium of St. Veronica'.
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• A Landscape
  2011
  SoundFjord, London, UK
  Text on Steve Roden, published on the occasion of his London residency, 26-30 March 2011.
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• Phonographies
  Article on Aleksander Kolkowski's wax cylinder archive in Frieze Blog, London, UK, 15 December 2011
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• Off the Page
  Report in frieze.com, Frieze, London, UK, 28 February 2011
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• David Toop. Sinister Resonance
  Interview in frieze.com, Frieze, London, UK, 17 August 2010
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• Chris Watson. Whispering in the Leaves
  Review in frieze.com, Frieze, London, UK, 28 June 2010
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• Bill Fontana
  Review in frieze.com, Frieze, London, UK, 12 May 2010
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• L'hai detto. Suoni e parole per il concetto di volto nel Figlio di Dio
  You Said It. Sounds and Words for the Concept of Face in the Son of God
  2010
  Performed text commissioned by Mántica festival, Cesena, Italy. The themes of portrait and story, listening and opacity, are explored across juxtaposed readings, sounds and images.
  Written in Italian
• Searching for Eusapia. A Solitary Séance
  A Special Day
  Antenna
  2010
  Sound and Music, London, UK
  Texts in Cut & splice: transmission, a book published on the occasion of 2010's Cut & Splice festival, London.
  read Searching for Eusapia. A solitary séance
  read A Special Day
  read Antenna
• Tu est l'autre
  2010
  Unpublished text on Carl Michael von Hausswolff.
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• An Intermittent Diary of Voices
  2010
  ICA, London, UK
  Audio essay for Cosey Complex, an event curated by Maria Fusco, 27 March 2010.
  Audio, 16'
  Thanks to Colin Potter for recording.
• Listen . Care . Fully .
  2010
  Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Holland
  Essay in Cavity: The Capacitive Version by Gert-Jan Prins.
  Clear vinyl with booklet.
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• Speaking Out: the Spoken Word in Artistic Practice
  Review in The Wire. Adventures in Modern Music, The Wire Magazine, London, UK, no. 314, April 2010
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• Bill Fontana. Tamigi, l'acqua è l'orchestra
  Article in Alias, Il Manifesto coop editrice, Roma, Italy, 1 maggio 2010
  In Italian
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• Arthur Russell, o l'arte dell'illuminazione del cuore
  Article in Il Giornale della Musica, Torino, Italy, n. 268, marzo 2010
  In Italian
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• Mika Vainio. Time Examined
  2009
  raster-noton, Berlin, Germany
  An essay about Mika Vainio, in the Mika Vainio. Time Examined book.
  Written in English
• Hold On to Your Dreams
  2009
  Key Note Multimedia, Roma, Italy
  Introduction to the Italian edition of Tim Lawrence's biography of Arthur Russell, Hold On To Your Dreams.
  Written in Italian
• Recollections
  2009
  Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany
  An essay in Paths, an artist's book by Paolo Inverni.
  Written in Italian, translated in English and German
• Anlage
  2009
  Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, Germany
  An essay about Agostino Di Scipio, Boris D. Hegenbart-Matsui, Douglas Henderson, Michael J. Schumacher, as part of the Anlage exhibition catalogue.
  Written in English, translated in Italian and German
• Sound Threshold
  2008
  Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy
  Statement for the Sound Threshold project, published in the booklet of the Cima Verde CD by Chris Watson.
  Written with Lucia Farinati in English and Italian
• Carl Michael von Hausswolff
  2008
  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  An essay about Carl Michael von Hausswolff, in Organised Sound. An International Journal of Music Technology, vol. 13, no. 1, April 2008.
  Written in English
• Yasunao Tone
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 118, marzo 2008
  In Italian
• Calling Out of Context. Note sulle arti del suono e sul loro introdursi negli spazi espositivi
  Combo, Artshow edizioni, Milano, n. 1, gennaio 2008
  In Italian
• The Films of Kenneth Anger
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 116, gennaio 2008
  In Italian
• Watch This Sound
  Contemporary, Art 21 Limited, London, no. 91, 2007
• Silence. Listen to the Show
  The Wire. Adventures in Modern Music, The Wire Magazine, London, no. 283, September 2007
• Fovea Hex
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 113, ottobre 2007
  In Italian
• Cyprien Gaillard
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 112, ottobre 2007
  In Italian
• Bas Jan Ader
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 111, luglio 2007
  In Italian
• Arthur Russell. Wild Combination
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 106, marzo 2007
  In Italian
• Mike Cooper. Cruising Paradise
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 104, gennaio 2007
  In Italian
• Carlos Casas
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 104 gennaio 2007
  In Italian
• To Become Empty Again. A View into John Duncan's Recent Audio Pieces and Installations
  2006
  Errant Bodies Press, Copenhagen, Denmark / Los Angeles, USA
  An essay about recent audio pieces and installations by John Duncan, as part of the John Duncan. Works 1975-2005 monograph, with essays by Leif Elggren, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mike Kelley, Brandon LaBelle, Paul McCarthy, Tom Recchion, Takuya Sakaguchi, Giuliana Stefani.
  Written in English
• Maryanne Amacher. Gravity. Music for Sound Joined Rooms Series
  The Wire. Adventures in Modern Music, The Wire Magazine, London, no. 274, December 2006
• Touch
  Contemporary, Art 21 Limited, London, no. 88, 2006
• Harry Partch. Enclosure 7: Delusion of the Fury
  The Wire. Adventures in Modern Music, The Wire Magazine, London, no. 272, October 2006
• 3/4hadbeeneliminated
  MusicWorks, Musicworks Society of Ontario Inc., Toronto, no. 95, summer 2006
• Sigfried Zielinski. Deep Time of the Media
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 102, novembre 2006
  In Italian
• Harry Partch. The Dreamer That Remains
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 100, settembre 2006
  In Italian
• Leigh Bowery
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 97, maggio 2006
  In Italian
• Orbita
  2005
  Galleria NicolaFornello / Gli Ori, Prato, Italy
  An essay about Grönlund\Nisunen as part of their Orbita exhibition catalogue.
  Written in Italian, translated in English
• Blind Sound
  2005
  London Musicians' Collective, London, UK
  An essay about Micol Assaël, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jacob Kirkegaard, Paolo Piscitelli in Resonance magazine, Sound Art supplement, edited by Anna Colin and Tobi Maier.
  Written in English
• Spazi d'ascolto / Listening Places
  2005
  503 Mulino, Vicenza, Italy
  An essay about Rolf Julius, Max Neuhaus, Paolo Piscitelli, Steve Roden as part of the Scultura Leggera / Light Sculpture exhibition catalogue.
  Written in Italian, translated in English
• Max Neuhaus
  Contemporary, Art 21 Limited, London, no. 75, 2005
• Suppliche, sospiri, voci. Bruce Nauman, raw materials
  Il Manifesto, Il Manifesto coop editrice, Roma, Italy, 24 novembre 2004
  In Italian
• Royal Art Lodge
  Eyes Wide Shut, in Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 70, marzo 2004
  In Italian
• The Surface of the Moon
  2003
  Suyama Space, Seattle, USA
  An essay about Steve Roden, as part of his The Surface Of The Moon exhibition brochure.
  Written in English
• Diamanda Galás
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 67, dicembre 2003
  In Italian
• Gliccia la traccia. Il ritmo impalpabile dell'errore artistico
  Alias, Il Manifesto coop editrice, Roma, Italy, 8 febbraio 2003
  In Italian
• Philip Jeck
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 54, novembre 2002
  In Italian
• William Basinski
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 54, novembre 2002
  In Italian
• Cease to Exist and After
  2000
  Castelvecchi, Rome, Italy
  An essay about the films and videos of Throbbing Gristle, as part of the Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK exhibition catalogue.
  Written in Italian, translated in English
• John Duncan
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 30, novembre 2000
  In Italian
• Noto
  Blow Up. Rock e altre contaminazioni, Edizioni Tuttle, Camucia (AR), Italy, n. 21, febbraio 2000
  In Italian