Sound Studies
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Listening as Witnessing
Witnessing is a new inter- and multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, launching with a special issue on listening, co-edited by Brandon LaBelle and Anna Papaeti. “This special issue draws on a selection of papers given at two international symposia organized in the…
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Chronic Sonics
Sonic Warfare is still a main reference for many of us around here. Now more than ever, Steve Goodman’s theories are relevant, as the audiovisual machine expands dramatically. Urbanomic will be releasing (March) a new Goodman’s text entitled “Notes on…
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ECOES #8
Ecoes is a magazine by Sonic Acts “rooted in environmental concerns and investigates how auditory practices shape our understanding of contemporary worlds — human and nonhuman.” Here’s the information for the 8th issue, which you can buy at Sonic Acts: In…
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The Archive and the Aural City
The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening, book by Alejandro L. Madrid at Duke University Press “In The Archive and the Aural City, Alejandro L. Madrid examines the possibilities for retrieving from the archive sounds…
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Literature as Sound Studies
New book at Bloomsbury edited by yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. “Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound. Considering literary works drawn…
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The Gender of Sound
Silver Press keeps expanding its sonic gem catalog. After Quantum Listening and Bodies of Sound, they published The Gender of Sound, by Anne Carson. Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts.…