“Perception is a Form of Sampling": Christoph Cox on Materialities of Sound

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

In this episode from the mini-series focused on sound and art, Caitlin Woolsey (Manton Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Christoph Cox, professor of philosophy and dean of the faculty at Hampshire College. Christoph writes on aesthetics, theories of sound, and cultural theory. In this conversation he describes his transdisciplinary academic path, how he views music writing as a kind of fieldwork, and a current collaborative project on sampling. Finally, Christoph reflects on the ethical implications of how we think about the nature of sound as object, as materiality, and as a perennial flow.