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  • What Sounds Do – Open Call for Papers

    What Sounds Do – Open Call for Papers

    Inspired by the conference WHAT SOUNDS DO which took place September13-16, 2022 in Copenhagen, Seismograf Magazine is opening a call for audio and research papers on the topic, for a new special issue that points to “new directions in an…

  • 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…

  • The Auditory Setting – Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts

    The Auditory Setting – Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts

    The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or ‘ambience’. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated…

  • The Nomadic Listener

    The Nomadic Listener

    The Nomadic Listener is an augmented book project developed between 2012 and 2019. Based on the author’s artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, the book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations…

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

    The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the…

  • Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

    An oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others. In the years following the arrival of the Windrush generation, the UK’s soundsystem culture would become…