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Call for Contributions: Klingt Gut! 2nd Symposium on Sound, Hamburg 2016
The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the AES Student Section of Hamburg have announced the second version of the klingt gut! Symposium of sound, featuring hundreds of participants as well as dozens of speakers. This year year it included important…
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Four New Books: Sonic Virtuality, Listening To War, Sensing Sound, Instruments of New Music
It’s very interesting to see the production of books about sound growing. In one side, it’s always challenging, difficult and almost impossible to theorize sound, at least in the way other aspects of life are theorized. But on the other hand,…
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Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History, Call for Papers
Stony Brook University is announcing a new conference on sound and history, co-organized by the department of music, department of philosophy and the school of health technology & management. Main speakers are Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King’s College London), Stefan Helmreich (Professor of…
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New Book: The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd Edition
Many of you may already know The Auditory Culture Reader, a wonderful compilation of essays and reflections edited by Michael Bull and Les Back and contributed by a fine selection of authors. Such edition is completely fantastic, well organized and able to…
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Journal of Sonic Studies 10 – Mapping the Field
It’s always a good day when you realize there’s a new issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies. This time I’m a bit late on it, since it was published a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, still fresh! This new publication, number…
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New STR Release on Listening and Walking, by Balam Ronan
Announcing Sonic Terrain’s release number 29. It’s a pleasure to feature the work of Mexico-based sound artist Balam Ronan, who has previously contributed to our World Listening Day compilations in 2013 and 2014. He is dedicated to field recording, sound…