cities
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Invisible Places 2017: Sound, urbanism and sense of place, Open Call
Invisible Places 2017 has been announced, including a series of calls, for papers, artistic residencies and workshops/soundwalks. This years’ topic is focused on “the complex relationships between landscapes and soundscapes or the significance of acoustic ecology for all living organisms…
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The Listening Observatory
José Luis Espejo and Mikel R. Nieto, both from the great mediateletipos network, have developed a new promising project called The Listening Observatory, aimed to explore listening in diverse perspectives, mainly through events and research activities. “The Listening Observatory is a project about the relationship…
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Three New Books: The Listening Reader, The Order of Sounds, Sonic Rupture
The amount of books around sound and listening keeps growing. Here are three new titles recently added to our sonic bookshelf: The Listening Reader Edited by Sam Belinfante and Joseph Kohlmaier Available at Cours de Poétique for £15.00. “Studies in…
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Call for Residencies – Tsonami International Sound Art Festival 2016
“Tsonami International Sound Art Festival, is now receiving submissions for this year’s edition … from artists, theoreticians, researchers, architects or any interested parties, to develop proposals of sound research projects that will take place in the city of Valparaíso, Chile, within the…
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Cities Unlocked, Sound-Based System for Guiding Blind People Through Cities
Cities Unlocked is a recent project that aims to use a “3D soundscape” system for helping people with sight loss navigate through cities. On a typical day, Jennifer Bottom makes her way around London with her guide dog in tow.…
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Crowdfunding The Quiet
As a way to combat his own anxiety of noise and crowds of cities, Jason Sweeney embarked on a worldwide quest for quiet in 2013 in our modern urban jungles. He created the TED Prize winning Stereopublic: Crowdsourcing the Quiet – www.stereopublic.net – a participatory art project…