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Translating Ambience
Translating Ambiance is an exhibition that emerges from an Australian Research Council grant (DECRA) awarded to Jordan Lacey entitled Translating Ambiance: restorative sound design for urban soundscapes (2019 – 21). The research aims to discover a methodology for translating the ambiance of natural places into urban places for the creation…
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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 the spatial turn in the…
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On Spatial Sound
Directed by Ana Amorós López, On Spatial Sound’ is a 1.5-hour documentary about the workf of the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest and the ongoing research with 4DSOUND technology. The film connects the personal perspective of artist Ana Amorós López, re-discovering her relation to sound…
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Listening Protocols
Listening Across Disciplines has an interesting research idea at the basis of their project, related to “listening protocols“, which are aimed to “help stablish and legitimize listening as a reliable research methodology across disciplines”. Historically, benefits of listening have been neglected in most disciplines due…
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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking
Nicolas Collins
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Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto-space costumes, played everything from boogie-woogie and swing to…
