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  • CALL FOR WORKS: Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days

    CALL FOR WORKS: Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days

      In an interview with Digicult, Salomé Voegelin describes, “I understand sound, exactly because of its formless in-between nature”.[1] As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical…

  • Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Hearing Modernity – Sawyer Seminar at Harvard

    Sound, fleeting and immaterial, has long proved resistant to academic inquiry. Faced with the impenetrable difficulty of pinning down sounds themselves, scholars have largely focused on written texts (instead of spoken words), while musicians have largely focused on notes (instead…

  • A Picture of a Thunder

    When it comes to thunderstorms, lightning tends to steal the show, dazzling everyone with its spectacular displays, and overshadowing the powerful long-distance rumbles that accompany the atmospheric energy release. But now a team of scientists working at the Southwest Research…

  • terry riley on tape loops

    terry riley on tape loops

  • Sonic Mmabolela 2014, directed by Francisco López

    Sonic Mmabolela 2014, directed by Francisco López

    2nd Annual Workshop/Residency for sound artists & composers at Mmabolela Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa – 17-30 November 2014 / 2 weeks ‘Sonic Mmabolela’ is a 2-week workshop/residency for professional and semiprofessional sound artists and composers with previous experience in the area of sound…