Journal of Sonic Studies, 13th Issue: Acoustic Ephemeralities

A new (13th) issue of our beloved Journal of Sonic Studies has been published and is available online.

This edition was coordinated by guest editors Monika Dommann, Boris Previšić, and Marianne Sommer and has been focused on the idea of acoustic ephemeralities, specifically “functions of media, music and the science as generators of acoustic paradigms” which are here explored under the idea of micro- macro-ephemeral of the acoustic.

Contents:

Acoustic Ephemeralities: Introduction – Monika Dommann, Boris Previšić, and Marianne Sommer
Sound-Essay 1 – Peter Weber and Lucas Niggli
Phonograph, Symbolic Acoustic Evidence in Arno Holz’ Phantasus – Thomas Forrer
Acoustic Micro- and Macroephemeralities in Literature. Robert Walser’s Microscript 364 (1925) and Peter Weber’s Silber und Salbader (1999) – Boris Previšić
At the Margins of the Audible: Morton Feldman’s Ephemeral Compositions – Dieter Mersch, translated by Laura Radosh
Writing the Ephemeral: John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing as a Landmark in Media History – Simon Aeberhard
Smorzando: Chopin on the MP3 player – Michel Roth
Listening to the Body Moving: Auscultation, Sound, and Music in the Early Nineteenth Century – Janina Wellmann
Record, Rewind, Rewrite: Acoustic Historiography with the Presidential Tapes – Monika Dommann, translated by Sarah Pybus
Experimental Cylinders: Experiments in Music Psychology around 1900 – Julia Kursell
Archive, Collection, Museum: On the History of the Archiving of Voices at the Sound Archive of the Humboldt University – Britta Lange, translated by Benjamin Carter
Animal Sounds against the Noise of Modernity and War: Julian Huxley (1887–1975) and the Preservation of the Sonic World Heritage – Marianne Sommer
Sound-Essay 2 – Boris Previšić, Hannes Seidl, and Lucas Niggli