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  • Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature;…

  • Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education – Theory, Culture and Practice

    Audio Education: Theory, Culture, and Practice is a groundbreaking volume of 16 chapters exploring the historical perspectives, methodologies, and theoretical underpinnings that shape audio in educational settings. Bringing together insights from a roster of international contributors, this book presents perspectives from…

  • The Auditory Setting – Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts

    The Auditory Setting – Environmental Sounds in Film and Media Arts

    The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or ‘ambience’. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated…

  • The Nomadic Listener

    The Nomadic Listener

    The Nomadic Listener is an augmented book project developed between 2012 and 2019. Based on the author’s artistic research on migration, contemporary urban experience, and sonic alienation, the book is composed of a series of texts stemming from psychogeographic explorations…

  • ISSTA 2018: Who’s Listening? Sound and public Space, Open Call

    ISSTA 2018: Who’s Listening? Sound and public Space, Open Call

    Open call for Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association annual conference 2018 is now open. Will take place at Ulster University, Magee campus, Derry, Northern Ireland, November 9th and 10th 2018.  Keynotes:   Dr Salomé Voegelin (Listening Across Disciplines group, author of Listening to…