research
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New English Translation of Pierre Schaeffer’s Influential Treatise on Musical Objects
If there’s an influential 20th century research, it is Pierre Schaeffer’s one. Not only for art and music, but for engineering and psychology. Although focused on his idea of the musical object, the Treatise on Musical Objects is an oasis…
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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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Sound Studies Journal Special Issue: Sonic Skills in Cultural Contexts
During the last three months, Sound Studies Interdisciplinary Journal has been publishing some articles of their Volume 2, an special issue on Sonic Skills in Cultural Contexts: Theories, Practices and Materialities of Listening, edited by Joeri Bruyninckx and Alexandra Supper. It can…
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Listening Across Disciplines, New Program at Resonance FM
Listening Across Disciplines, a recent project by Salomé Voegelin and Anna Barney dedicated to inter-disciplinary exploration of listening, now has a radio program at Resonance FM. Produced and edited by Voegelin, the program is focused on presenting “methods of listening as they…
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Seismograf Special Issue: Fluid Sounds
Seismograf journal has published a special issue called Fluid Sounds, dedicated to explore sound and also to propose a new format for their platform, “The Audio Paper”, whose purpose “is to extend the written academic text: to present discussions and…
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The Senses & Society Special Issue: Anthropology of Sound
Published by Routledge, edited by Michael Bull and David Howes, and featuring contributions of several researchers, the new special issue of The Senses & Society journal explores the notion of anthropology of sound from diverse perspectives. “This special issue of The Senses &…