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  • Call for Abstracts at SoundEffects Journal: Sound and Listening Spaces

    Call for Abstracts at SoundEffects Journal: Sound and Listening Spaces

    SoundEffects Journal, dedicated to sound and sound experience, has a new open call for abstracts for a new issue, this time with a focus “on the listening space that we enter, experience and create.” “Since what has popularly been called…

  • Dhvāni

    Dhvāni

    Dhvāni, meaning resonance in Sanskrit, is a responsive and self-regulating sound sculpture that incorporates Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to challenge human agency in sounding art. The work is part of an artistic research project Connecting Resonances that aims to create…

  • Sonic Continuum

    Sonic Continuum

    Curated by Sofia Lemos and assisted by Ryan Kearney, Sonic Continuum is a programme and research project at Nottingham Contemporary, dedicated to investigate “practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for…

  • Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture, book by Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens, published at Strange Attractor. An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay…

  • Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

    Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art

    Making It Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art, new book edited by Rui Chaves,Fernando Iazzetta and published at Bloomsbury. From the mid-20th century to present, the Brazilian art, literature, and music scene have been witness to a wealth of creative approaches…

  • Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…