Douglas Kahn: Reagan Speaks For Himself and More (Histories and Theories of Sound)

Professor Douglas Kahn shares sounds and stories about the early audiotape cut-ups he produced in the 1980’s, most notoriously, Reagan Speaks For Himself, which appeared as a flexi-disc inside Raw magazine. Kahn is a Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales and is best known as an historian and theorist of sound and the media arts. When invited to speak, Kahn said: “This is the first time anyone has asked me to talk about my own work. There are three or four decades pent up…” www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/program/br…ty-eraser/ Histories and Theories of Sound Bratty Eraser 4 September 2016 Tape Projects, Melbourne Presented by Liquid Architecture and Tape Projects For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.