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Leonardo Music Journal, Call for for Papers – The Politics of Sound Art
For Volume 25 of Leonardo Music Journal we are soliciting articles (papers of up to 3,000 words) and shorter statements (750-1,000 words) that address the role of politics in the creation and dissemination of music and related sonic arts, especially…
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Sonospace
The Sonospace website splits up into a magazine and a sound archive. They both interconnect with some of the wider issues that we see over the course of our contributors’ research projects and represent our mission to bring interesting and…
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New STR Release by Enrique Maraver
Pleased to announce a new release at Sonic Terrain: STR018 – En las Faldas de la Malinche, created from field recordings taken by Enrique Maraver in “La Malinche” territory in Mexico. Go to release page for listening and more info.
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Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens
Michael D. Fowler presents an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the sound world of traditional Japanese gardens by drawing from the diverse fields of semiotics, acoustic ecology, philosophy, mathematical modelling, architecture, music, landscape theory and acoustic analysis. Using projects – ranging…
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Three New Books: On Acousmatic Sound, Sonic Continuum and Orality
Here are three books I’ve been exploring recently and strongly recommend. All of them have been written by well-known sound theorists and were released in June/July. In general, I’d say the texts are dedicated to explore different aspects of sound, mainly featuring a…
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The Visual Microphone, Translating Subtle Vibrations into Audio (from Video)
Interesting project by MIT scientists who have found a way of translating subtle vibrations of solid objects into audio information, through the use of high-speed cameras. When sound hits an object, it causes small vibrations of the object’s surface. We show…