Texts

  • Sound Studies Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1

    Sound Studies Journal, Vol 6, Issue 1

    Sound Studies Journal has published its first issue of 2020, this time dedicated to explore “the vibrational materiality of sound and its status as an epistemological object”, as explained by Veit Erlmann from the University of Texas at Austin: “The…

  • Poetic Presence: New Environments in Media Arts

    Poetic Presence: New Environments in Media Arts

        Currently, we are living in strange and surreal times under the spectre of a global virus pandemic. An aggravated sense of social alienation is exacerbated by a thriving social media, with nonstop bombardment of information. Often this vociferous…

  • Translating Ambience

    Translating Ambience

    Translating Ambiance is an exhibition that emerges from an Australian Research Council grant (DECRA) awarded to Jordan Lacey entitled Translating Ambiance: restorative sound design for urban soundscapes (2019 – 21). The research aims to discover a methodology for translating the ambiance of natural places into…

  • Listening Protocols

    Listening Protocols

    Listening Across Disciplines has an interesting research idea at the basis of their project, related to “listening protocols“, which are aimed to “help stablish and legitimize listening as a reliable research methodology across disciplines”. Historically, benefits of listening have been…

  • Eco part 7: Liliana Rodríguez Alvarado

    Eco part 7: Liliana Rodríguez Alvarado

    Liliana Rodríguez Alvarado is a Mexican artist with a very interesting job especially in sound improvisation. This is why we interviewed her at Sonic Field. Find the interview in Spanish and English. Q How and when do you find sound…

  • Silence and Forest Sentience in Mustarinda, by John Grzinich

    Silence and Forest Sentience in Mustarinda, by John Grzinich

    Sound artist John Grzinich has published an interesting article on a recent residency he had at Mustarinda. “In October-November 2019 I was fortunate to spend a month experiencing the slow transition between late-Autumn and early-Winter in the forests of central…