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Philosophy:

The Arosurreal Manifesto

Reading List:

• Peter Blasser, Stores at the Mall ✓
• Tara Rodgers, Pink Noises ✓
• Ecotones : Investigating Sounds and Territories ✓
• Curtis Roads, Microsound ✓
• Daniel Fishkin, The Kerf of Sound ✓
• David Toop, Ocean of Sound
• NSDOS + norkhat, Activate Cities
• Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture
• Andy Farnell, Designing Sound MIT Press
• Electronic Music and Sound Design with Max 8 - Volume 1
• Zen and the Art of the Macintosh : discoveries on the path to computer enlightenment
• James Bridle, Ways of Being
• Octavia Butler, Dawn
• Atlas of High End Audio
• Yale Press, Constructing the Ineffable : Contemporary Sacred Architecture
• Byung-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Ritual

Thesis Reference Reading List:

Biserna, E. (2023). Going out: Walking, listening, Soundmaking. Umlandi.
Blasser, P. (2015) Stores at the Mall. A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Music. Wesleyan University Press
Britton, K. (2011). Constructing the ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture. Yale University Press.
Campt, T. (2017). Listening to images. Duke University Press.
Chude-Sokei, L. O. (2016). The sound of culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics. Wesleyan University Press.
​​Delany, S. R., & Cheney, M. (2022). Starboard wine more notes on the language of science fiction. Wesleyan University Press.
Fishkin, D. The Kerf of Sound. University of Virginia, Music - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2025-05-02, https://doi.org/10.18130/c2yb-c954. Online Archive of University of Virginia Scholarship
Frazier, R. T., Caldwell, B. R., & Jafa, A. (2023). Kaos Theory: The Afrokosmic ark of Ben Caldwell. Angel City Press.
Gooden, M. (2016). Dark space: Architecture, representation, Black Identity. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
Han, B. (2019). The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. Polity
Monte Young, L. (1960) Compositions 1960. MoMA Collection
Moten, F. (2017). Black and Blur. Duke University Press.
Muggs, J., & Stevens, B. D. (2020). Bass, Mids, TOPS: An oral history of sound system culture. Strange Attractor Press.
Roads, C. (2004). Microsound. MIT.
Rodgers, T. (2010). Pink noises: Women on electronic music and sound. Duke University Press.
Schafer, R. M. (2013). The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. University of Simon Fraser Library.
Sharpe, C. (2016). In the wake: On blackness and being Christina Sharpe. Duke University Press.
Tarkovskiĭ, A. A. (1986). Sculpting in time. Bodley Head.
Toop, D., Réveillon, A., & Valensi, R. (2022). Ocean of sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication. Éditions de l’éclat.
Wilson, P., & Stewart, M. (2008). Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, poetics, and politics. Duke University Press.

Aug 2025

Femi is currently researching horn loudspeaker design and HiFi Audio, in preperation for his BArch thesis at RISD. See the speaker building log and speakers for more.

Jan 2025

Femi is currently researching Daxophones, Solar Sounders and Arbrassons with Daniel Fishkin

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