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Call for Contributions: Klingt Gut! 2nd Symposium on Sound, Hamburg 2016
The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the AES Student Section of Hamburg have announced the second version of the klingt gut! Symposium of sound, featuring hundreds of participants as well as dozens of speakers. This year year it included important figures such as composer and…
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Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism Thomas Patteson At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’ new Open Access publishing program for monographs. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound…
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Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Sign, Storage, Transmission) Nina Sun Eidsheim In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are…
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Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq J. Martin Daughtry To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it–and to have listened through it. Listening to War:…
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Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception Mark Grimshaw & Tom Garner In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound…
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Four New Books: Sonic Virtuality, Listening To War, Sensing Sound, Instruments of New Music
It’s very interesting to see the production of books about sound growing. In one side, it’s always challenging, difficult and almost impossible to theorize sound, at least in the way other aspects of life are theorized. But on the other hand, it means the possibility of looking…
