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  • keith rowe – tabletop electric guitar

    keith rowe – tabletop electric guitar

    A seminal figure in improvised music and founding member of the AMM, Rowe helped define the genre not simply on stylistic but ideological grounds–improvised music as a way of thinking, a libratory practice, and a social model. It has been…

  • Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics

    Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics

    8 July 2015 – 10 July 2015 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2 Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics is a three-day conference featuring leading researchers and artists in the field. The conference will include presentations…

  • Sonic Acts Festival 2015 – The Geologic Imagination

    26 February –1 March 2015, Amsterdam Sonic Acts announces the first names for the 2015 edition: philosopher Graham Harman, theorists Benjamin Bratton and Timothy Morton, architect and researcher Liam Young, weird fiction writer Jeff Vandermeer and research journalist Alan Weisman,…

  • Journal of Sonic Studies 8 – Sounds of Space

    Journal of Sonic Studies 8 – Sounds of Space

    A new special issue of the great Journal of Sonic Studies has been published, dedicated to “sounds of space”. We are delighted to announce the publication of the Journal of Sonic Studies special issue on Sounds of Space. Two years ago,…

  • Oceanoise 2015

    Oceanoise 2015

    OCEANOISE2015, a symposium to be hosted (11-15 May) in Vilanova i la Geltrú (around 40km South from Barcelona, Spain) by the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB) of the Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech. The growing scientific and societal concern about the…

  • New Book: The Sonic Boom

    New Book: The Sonic Boom

    Joel Beckerman and Tyler Gray have published a new book called The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy. A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to…