studies
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Call for Abstracts at SoundEffects Journal: Sound and Listening Spaces
SoundEffects Journal, dedicated to sound and sound experience, has a new open call for abstracts for a new issue, this time with a focus “on the listening space that we enter, experience and create.” “Since what has popularly been called…
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Digital Sound Studies Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching,…
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Between Air and Electricity: Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments Cathy van Eck Composers and sound artists have explored for decades how to transform microphones and loudspeakers from “inaudible” technology into genuinely new musical instruments. While the sound reproduction industry…
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Theorizing Sound Writing (Music/Culture) Deborah Kapchan The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup…
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The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity (Studies in Sensory History) James G Mansell Sound transformed British life in the “age of noise” between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even…
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Dirty Ear Report #2 Ricarda Denzer (Contributor), Claudia Firth (Contributor), Lucia Farinati (Contributor) In this second installment of the Dirty Ear Report series, leading sound artists and theorists argue for sound as a new paradigm in art, particularly considering questions…