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Defining Tradition of Sound Culture: Questioning The Importance of Authenticity | Essay by Guoda Dirzyte
“In the future varying cultures will be unified and, assisted by technology, eventually we will have a global culture” [1] It is difficult to talk about contemporary sound culture or cultures in general, their traditions and heritage while living in the age of post-globalization. Every…
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Soundcamp 2018 | May 5-6 | Stave Hill Ecological Park | London
The fifth edition of Soundcamp will take place on the 5-6 May to coincide with the International Dawn Chorus Day. During the event, Stave Hill Ecological Park becomes an audio observatory where visitors can camp out overnight in the Stave Hill meadow and take part…
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Listening to the City, Free Handbook by MIT CoLab
MIT Community Innovators Lab has published “Listening to the city Handbook” for free (PDF). Overview This book is the result of a year long collaboration that arose from a shared desire to explore how sound – including the human voice – can enrich our understanding of…
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Video interview with Ben Gwilliam
After making dozens of interviews to sound artists and experimental musicians via email for The Field Reporter and for Sonic Field, I found that my everyday life conversations with artists were so much more interesting and eloquent, so after moving to the UK I decided…
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Invisible Places 2017, Conference Proceedings Book Available for (Free) Download
Invisible Places has published a PDF with the proceedings from 2017 edition of their conference. 678 pages of vast sonic explorations, edited by two experts in such deepness of the unseen: Raquel Castro & Miguel Carvalhais. You can download it here.
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Sonic Realities – Call For Papers/Works
Sonic Realities is a conference organised by University of Aberdeen’s Sound Emporium Research Group (SERG). Keynote speakers are professors Cathy Lane and Michel Chion. The conference will run on the 25th and 26th of May. Interpretations and representations of reality benefit immensely from engagements with sound,…
