Daniela Cascella is a writer based in London. For over ten years her research has been focused on sound and listening, and on the way they seep into other formats, most of all text. Her most recent projects explore fictional tropes in writing criticism and sound in fiction. She blogs regularly on Writing Sound. She holds an MFA (distinction) in Art Writing from Goldsmiths University of London, and lectures and leads workshops extensively on Writing Sound and Sound Art.
Recent texts and projects (2010/2011) include 'Something Missing'. Notes on Writing Sound, a paper presented at the Sound Art Theories Symposium, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; A Landscape, a talk with Steve Roden at SoundFjord, London, across their collections of books and records; On Listening, a performance lecture with David Toop and Salomé Voegelin at the Off the Page festival, Whitstable; You Have Said It, a performed text commissioned by Chiara Guidi / Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio for the Màntica Festival in Italy; An Intermittent Diary of Voices, an audio essay for Cosey Complex curated by Maria Fusco at the ICA in London; Transmission, a co-edited book commissioned by the Cut & Splice Festival in London and produced by Sound and Music and BBC Radio3.
Prior to her move to London, Daniela worked in Rome, Italy as a journalist and curator specialising in Sound Art, producing and curating projects for museums and public institutions such as the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome and the British School at Rome. Between 2000 and 2008 she was contributing editor of Blow Up music magazine, for which she also wrote a monthly column entitled Eyes Wide Shut. She has published two books in Italian, Scultori di Suono (Sculptors of Sound), 2005, and The Edge Of The World, 2008. Her essays have been published in books and exhibition catalogues internationally, on Errant Bodies Press and raster-noton among the others; her articles and reviews have appeared in Organised Sound, MusicWorks, The Wire, Alias/Il Manifesto, Contemporary, frieze.com.
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