[7][8] David Byrne, founding member and lead singer of American rock band Talking Heads, listed Acoustic Territories as one of his favorite books about music, including it in a collection of books Byrne curated for London's 2019 Meltdown Festival.
[9] Brandon LaBelle was born on October 23, 1969, in Los Angeles, California.
As a drummer, LaBelle took part in the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the 1980s and 90s where he developed "an experimental relation to noise.
[11][12] LaBelle's first exhibitions date from 1995, the year when he also published his first noteworthy papers and gave his first performances as a sound artist.
In 2010, he published Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life.