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Three Conferences on Sound Studies
 

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 , 10:10 by Holger Schulze in Anthropology of Sound, Event, Link, Research, Sound Studies, Symposion

 


* 1st conference: February 11-13, 2010 in Siegen, Germany

Auditive Medienkulturen:

Methoden einer interdisziplinären Klangwissenschaft


Die mediatisierte Klangwelt, die uns umgibt, prägt nicht nur maßgeblich das persönliche Lebensgefühl, sondern der Umgang mit Klangobjekten bestimmt und verändert auch die Ordnungen und das Selbstverständnis kultureller Praxis. Wodurch aber zeichnen sich auditive Medienkulturen aus und wie lassen sie sich untersuchen?

Begreift man diese als ein komplexes Zusammenwirken soziokultureller, medientechnischer, epistemischer und ästhetischer Kontexte, die historisch gewachsen und kontingent sind, liegt es nahe, die wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit vom Klang und dem Hören im Allgemeinen auf konkrete sozio-technische Konstellationen, Netzwerke und Praxen zu lenken, aus denen historische wie gegenwärtige auditive Medienkulturen emergieren. Im zweiten Teilbereich des Symposiums werden daher verschiedene methodische Ansätze zur Analyse von Klangkulturen vorgestellt und auf eine Reihe von Fallbeispielen angewendet.


* 2nd conference: February 14-17, 2010 in Austin/Texas

Discourses of Music, Sound, and Film:

A Meeting of Disciplines


Brief excerpt from the program:


Michel Chion:
Aspects of the Sensorial in Contemporary Cinema

Pedro P. Ferreira:
Applied Rhythm Technology in Electronic Dance Music:
The Sound-Movement Nexus

Marc Leman:
An Embodied Approach to Musical Signification

Paul Théberge:
Technology and Cinema:
Where Image, Music, and Sound Collide

Mark J. Butler:
Playing with Something that Runs:
Technology, Improvisation, and Composition

Neil Lerner:
The Cinematization of Video Game Music
An Archeology of Style from 1977–2007


* 3rd conference: September 23-25, 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark

Conference on Sound Studies:

Sound as Art – Sound in History – Sound as Culture – Sound in Theory


Cultural changes related to globalization and digital media have questioned traditional paradigms of vision containing notions of visual representation, semiotics, and a hermeneutics based on reading. Such changes suggest an auditive paradigm in which modes of interaction, mobile communications, and spatial and geographic fluidity lead to a renewed sense of orality and listening. In research this new paradigm is establishing itself as the interdisciplinary field of sound studies.

It draws on disciplines such as musicology, performance studies, art history, anthropology, cultural studies, urban studies, and histories of technology and media while influencing these disciplines with new modes of reflection on and examination of their respective methodologies and subsequent political effects.

The aim of the conference is to profile contemporary sound studies as an interdisciplinary field of studies and to contribute to the discussion and development of the auditive paradigm in general. Key concepts like ‘acoustemology’, ‘acoustic space’ or ‘sonic environment’ might be reflected upon and developed as well, both at a theoretical level and with regard to specific cultural, medial and aesthetic contexts.




The Loudness War
 

Monday, February 1st, 2010 , 11:03 by Holger Schulze in Anthropology of Sound, Functional Sounds, Link, Popular Culture, Sound Studies

 



Cf: A Visual History of Loudness (by Christopher Clark);

Bob Ludwig et.al. on NPR.



Listening with eyes, seeing with ears.
 

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 , 11:07 by Holger Schulze in Link, Popular Culture, Sound & Vision, Sound Studies, Web

 


Listening with eyes, seeing with ears:

The Visual Music Archive is a non-institutional and highly subjective collection of inspirational works from the ever expanding field of Visual Music.


Heike Sperling, a researcher and professor for Digital Visual Media at the Institute for Music and Media at the University of Mjusic Düsseldorf set up this great online resource called the Visual Music Archive Go and indulge in it!





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