sound
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Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq J. Martin Daughtry To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it–and to have listened…
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Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception Mark Grimshaw & Tom Garner In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic…
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Periods and Waves: A Conference on Sound and History, Call for Papers
Stony Brook University is announcing a new conference on sound and history, co-organized by the department of music, department of philosophy and the school of health technology & management. Main speakers are Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King’s College London), Stefan Helmreich (Professor of…
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Michel Andre, A Listener of Deep Sea
“The ocean was called ‘the world of silence’ in the past and it truly is for human beings, but as soon as you drop a microphone into the water, this world of silence turns out to be a cacophony of…
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New Book: The Auditory Culture Reader, 2nd Edition
Many of you may already know The Auditory Culture Reader, a wonderful compilation of essays and reflections edited by Michael Bull and Les Back and contributed by a fine selection of authors. Such edition is completely fantastic, well organized and able to…
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MyNoise Interactive Soundscape Generator, Plus Félix Blume’s Field Recordings from Sian Ka’an Reserve
We know several ways of publishing sounds over the Internet, but some of those services tend to offer interesting features which creatively differentiate them among the rest, as it is the case of MyNoise.net, an interesting web project in which…