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  • Sound Studies Symposium: New Approaches to Listening

    Sound Studies Symposium: New Approaches to Listening

    Listening is a core issue of sound studies. The plasticity of listening situations, listening practices and listening discourses has recurrently been discussed in this interdisciplinary research field. On thursday November 19, 2015 we explore in a one day symposion at…

  • Three New Books: Voices of the Wild, The Tone of Our Times, Sounding the Limits of Life

    Below are three new books on sound, two already out and one for november (pre-order available). Voices of the Wild – Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes, by Bernie Krause. Yale University Press | Amazon Since 1968, Bernie…

  • New Book: Thresholds of Listening – Sound, Technics, Space

    Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective…

  • Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead…

  • christoph cox lecture

    christoph cox lecture

    This lecture was recorded November 20, 2014, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts as part of the Graduate Studies Lecture Series. By Christoph Cox, “who is completing a monograph about sound…

  • Ear | Wave | Event – Issue Two

    Ear | Wave | Event publication has published issue #2, including the following articles: Listening? BY BILL DIETZ & WOODY SULLENDER Relational Listening : The Politics Of Perception BY LAWRENCE ENGLISH  Relational Listening P.S. BY BILL DIETZ & LAWRENCE ENGLISH Sound,…