Architecture / Space

  • Jordan Lacey: Some thoughts on the contemporary Urban-Nature Division

    Jordan Lacey: Some thoughts on the contemporary Urban-Nature Division

    A note from the editor, on Sonic, Social, Distance: In an interview with Digicult, Salomé Voegelin describes, “I understand sound, exactly because of its formless in-between nature”.[1] As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into…

  • Call for Abstracts at SoundEffects Journal: Sound and Listening Spaces

    Call for Abstracts at SoundEffects Journal: Sound and Listening Spaces

    SoundEffects Journal, dedicated to sound and sound experience, has a new open call for abstracts for a new issue, this time with a focus “on the listening space that we enter, experience and create.” “Since what has popularly been called…

  • On Spatial Sound

    On Spatial Sound

    Directed by Ana Amorós López, On Spatial Sound’ is a 1.5-hour documentary about the workf of the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest and the ongoing research with 4DSOUND technology. The film connects the personal perspective of artist Ana Amorós López,…

  • Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…

  • The otherwise heard, that I become, by Brandon LaBelle

    The otherwise heard, that I become, by Brandon LaBelle

    Vía Swamp Pavilion: Experiences of listening may be understood to weaken us, making us vulnerable to the intensities of worldly contact and each other. Reflecting upon particular modes of listening, from the empathic to the migratory, understandings of sharing and…

  • Soundscape Journal Vol. 17 and 18 Now Online

    Soundscape Journal Vol. 17 and 18 Now Online

    The World Forum of Acoustic Ecology announces that two new editions of Soundscape have just been published online: ​​Volume 17 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Australian Forum for Acoustic Ecology and profiles the incredible diversity of acoustic ecology practice…