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Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History, Call for Papers
Stony Brook University is announcing a new conference on sound and history, co-organized by the department of music, department of philosophy and the school of health technology & management. Main speakers are Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King’s College London), Stefan Helmreich (Professor of Anthropology, MIT), Alexander Rehding (Professor of Music,…
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Michel Andre, A Listener of Deep Sea
“The ocean was called ‘the world of silence’ in the past and it truly is for human beings, but as soon as you drop a microphone into the water, this world of silence turns out to be a cacophony of sounds.” – Michel Andre Michel…
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New Book: The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd Edition
Many of you may already know The Auditory Culture Reader, a wonderful compilation of essays and reflections edited by Michael Bull and Les Back and contributed by a fine selection of authors. Such edition is completely fantastic, well organized and able to address a lot of interesting…
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MyNoise Interactive Soundscape Generator, Plus Félix Blume’s Field Recordings from Sian Ka’an Reserve
We know several ways of publishing sounds over the Internet, but some of those services tend to offer interesting features which creatively differentiate them among the rest, as it is the case of MyNoise.net, an interesting web project in which sound works are exposed in…
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The Auditory Culture Reader (Sensory Formations) Michael Bull & Les Back The first edition of *The Auditory Culture Reader *offered an introduction to both classical and recent work on auditory culture, laying the foundations for new academic research in sound studies. Today, interest and research…
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John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World John Cage Composed over the course of 16 years, John Cage’s Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) is one of his most prescient and personal works. A repository of observations, anecdotes,…
