Sound Studies

  • A Year of Deep Listening

    A Year of Deep Listening

    A Year of Deep Listening is a wonderful idea from the Center of Deep Listening aimed to present 365 Listening scores, one each day, beginning on Pauline Oliveros’ 90th birthday: May 30, 2022. The celebration remembers the invaluable legacy of…

  • Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature;…

  • The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

    The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

    Description By reinterpreting 20th-century poetry as a listening to and writing through noise, The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk constructs a literary history of noise through poetic sound and performance. This book traces how poets figure noise in…

  • Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations on Rêvolutions by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

    Ethical and Aesthetic Considerations on Rêvolutions by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

    Introduction Today a growing group of sonic artists engage with plants as collaborators in their processes and creations. The duo Feral Practice invites audience members to sound walks in forests to reflect on ecological and social issues in the vicinity…

  • The Acoustic Environment of Mars: Two Speeds of Sound and a Quiet Atmosphere

    The Acoustic Environment of Mars: Two Speeds of Sound and a Quiet Atmosphere

    Nature has published a new article about the acoustic environment of Mars, called “In situ recording of Mars soundscape”, from a long term research done by a vast group of astrophysicists and space explorers, primarily based on recordings taken by…

  • Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from…