soundscape

  • Geosonics

    Geosonics

    Bloomsbury has released Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes by Joshua Dittrich. How do we listen to the earth? That is the central question posed in Geosonics: Listening Through Earth’s Soundscapes. Working across sound studies, media theory, and environmental media studies,…

  • Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • Covid Backyard | Dirk de Bruyn

    Covid Backyard | Dirk de Bruyn

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distanc As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • 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…

  • Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    New article by Shannon Mattern at Places Journal on urban soundscape and the importance of listening to the city nowadays. “For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but…

  • Empty Cities

    Empty Cities

    Vacuamoenia has a new project called Empty Cities, dedicated to explore urban sound during quarantine: Following government directives and to counter the spread of Coronavirus in Italy, each of us has made a commitment not to leave the house and to limit…