ecology
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Sonic Acts – The Geological Imagination, Video Documentation with Talks, Performances, More
Sonic Acts Festival has been uploading some new videos to their YoutTube channel featuring amazing content from their edition on Geological Imagination, including talks, performances, interviews, etc. They are not all of them precisely focused on sound directly but on a…
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Being Hear, Short Film on Gordon Hempton’s Sonic Ecology
National Geographic has the exclusive streaming of ‘Being Hear‘, a short film dedicated to Gordon Hempton’s philosophy and practice around listening and sound ecology. “In lyrical short film Being Hear, filmmakers Palmer Morse and Matt Mikkelsen capture Hempton in his element…
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New Books: Beyond Vision, Theorizing Sound Writing, Quiet Ecology, Age of Noise in Britain
Here are four interesting new books on sound you might be interested to explore, in this case mostly covering discussions on sound studies and sonic philosophy. Some of them are already published, others are available for pre-order. The new titles include…
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Towards a “New” Sonic Ecology, Lecture by Marcel Cobussen
In his inaugural lecture as as professor in Auditory Culture at the University of Leiden, Marcel Cobussen, researcher, founder of the Journal of Sonic Studies and recently co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art, exposed a fascinating idea around…
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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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Living Earth, Dark Ecology and the Exit of Toxic Modernity
Based on philosopher Timothy Morton’s idea of Dark Ecology, Sonic Acts team has been collaborating with Norwegian curator Hilde Methi between 2014 and 2016 in a rich exploration of territories aimed to embrace Morton’s idea of “ecology without Nature”, which points…