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Digital Sound Studies Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Manifesto for Care-ful Listening (listening for everything)
Listening Across Disciplines has published a wonderful manifesto result of their Points of Listening public event held at the De La Warr Pavilion. “… we conducted participatory experiments in care-ful listening. Through the workshop process we created collaborative manifestos, guidelines, protocols…
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The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates
Abstract: Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds, frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely unstudied. Here, we address several fundamental questions about the origins of acoustic communication in terrestrial…