Eavesdropping: A Reader addresses “the capture and control of our sonic world by state and corporate interests, alongside strategies of resistance”. Edited by James Parker of Melbourne Law School and Joel Stern of Liquid Architecture, the anthology follows a Melbourne exhibition of the same name that examined the rise of intrusive behaviour. “We cannot help but hear too much, more than we mean to. Eavesdropping is a condition of social life. And the question is not whether to eavesdrop, therefore, but how,” says the synopsis.

The book includes essays from James Parker, Joel Stern, Norie Neumark, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Susan Schuppli, Sean Dockray, Joel Spring, Fayen d’Evie and Jen Bervin, Samson Young and Manus Recording Project Collective.

The Australian sound art organisation Liquid Architecture has also launched a new online journal called Disclaimer containing commissioned essays, interviews and audio papers focussed on sonic art in Melbourne and around the world.