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Towards a “New” Sonic Ecology, Lecture by Marcel Cobussen
In his inaugural lecture as as professor in Auditory Culture at the University of Leiden, Marcel Cobussen, researcher, founder of the Journal of Sonic Studies and recently co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, exposed a fascinating idea around “a new sonic ecology”, addressing…
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Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity (Recursions) Wolfgang Ernst Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual—at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new…
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Thousands of Bird Recordings Organized by Artificial Intelligence in this Interactive Experiment
Bird Sounds is a Google A.I. experiment created by Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan and Yotam Mann, as a collaboration between Google Creative Lab, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Macaulay Library using an open source code.
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Calls for Recordings: Wildlife Exhibit, Sacred Spaces, Innerscape
There are some calls for field recordings you might be interested to participate in: One is at Sonospace, for Wildlife Field Recording Exhibition 2016. It will be launched in December and presented in an interactive installation in Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline is December 17, 2016. “All of…
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New Book: Sonic Thinking, A Media Philosophical Approach
Bloomsbury has announced Sonic Thinking, a new book with 344 pages on sonic philosophy and sound studies to be published on February 23, next year, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, with participation of a very interesting team of contributors who explore the idea of “thinking with…
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Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach (Thinking Media) Bernd Herzogenrath Sonic Thinking attempts to extend the burgeoning field of media philosophy, which so far is defined by a strong focus on cinema, to the field of sound. The contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas…
