research
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Listening Protocols
Listening Across Disciplines has an interesting research idea at the basis of their project, related to “listening protocols“, which are aimed to “help stablish and legitimize listening as a reliable research methodology across disciplines”. Historically, benefits of listening have been…
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Sonic Continuum
Curated by Sofia Lemos and assisted by Ryan Kearney, Sonic Continuum is a programme and research project at Nottingham Contemporary, dedicated to investigate “practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for…
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The origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates
Abstract: Acoustic communication is crucial to humans and many other tetrapods, including birds, frogs, crocodilians, and mammals. However, large-scale patterns in its evolution are largely unstudied. Here, we address several fundamental questions about the origins of acoustic communication in terrestrial…
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An Epistemology of Noise
Bloomsbury has announced Epistemology of Noise a promising new bookby Cecile Malaspina and dedicated to explore the concept of noise, not only sonic, but in general approach. What do we understand ‘noise’ to be? The term ‘noise’ no longer suggests only…
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CALL FOR WORK: Wayback Sound Machine, a constellation of sounding time
Wayback Sound Machine: a constellation of sounding time, is an ongoing series that will be published right here on Sonic Field throughout 2018. series abstract: What can we gather from sounding the past? And with that in mind, what is…
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Towards a more sonically inclusive museum practice
Science Museum Group Journal has published an interesting article by John Kannemberg, curator at the museum of portable sound: Towards a more sonically inclusive museum practice: a new definition of the ‘sound object’ As museums continue to search for new…