May 2012
7 posts
Conference on Music Induced Hearing Disorders
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With the advent and omnipresence of portable listening devices and louder sound systems for live sound reproduction, the interest in music-induced hearing disorders and their measurement and prevention is global. This conference will provide attendees with a detailed understanding of...
JAMMMIT Joint Action, Models of Music and...
International Workshop IPEM - Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music Ghent University 12 - 13 June 2012, Ghent
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Joint action denotes coordinated, synchronised actions performed by a number of individuals together, and is characterised by shared goals. Joint action is a crucial aspect of...
JSS 2 Online + Music Listening Survey
JSS2 is online - a special issue on different aspects of listening. Within this framework, the next call fits perfectly.
Researchers at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada, and Department of Informatics at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) in Germany are conducting a survey about music listening habits which consists of questions on listening hours,...
Summer School on Auditory Cognition
Welcome to the second Summer School on Auditory Cognition, Plymouth 2012
This year, the Summer School on Auditory Cognition will be taking place between July 16th and July 23rd, 2012, in Plymouth, UK. The summer school is exclusively focused on the topic of “Auditory Cognition - Listening in the Real World” and will cover a wide range of subjects, from the basics of auditory...
Sonic Memories - Call for Contributions
Dear people,
I would like to ask something of you. My installation Soundtracks will be shown at Den Frie in Copenhagen in June and I would like to ask you for a contribution. The idea behind Soundtracks is to build an archive of memories of sound. Memories of sounds which were important to someone, that struck them or stayed with them. Soundtracks wants to research which kind of sounds get...
Sonic Radicalism - A Symposium
Centre for Cultural Studies Research School of Arts and Digital Industries University of East London Presents: Music, Politics and Agency Seminar 3: Sonic Radicalism
May 23rd 2012, 13:00-17:00
University of East London, Docklands Campus
Can sound subvert? Thinkers since Plato have assumed that it can, that social form and musical form are intrinsically linked, resonant, or pre-figurative of...
NAISA Audio Streams →
NAISA Webcast will broadcast radio art 24/7 for the month of May. The schedule is broken into 8 hour blocks that repeat three times of day in order for listeners located in any time zone the chance to hear their preferred programming at a convenient time. The hours listed are local time in Toronto, Canada (-5 GMT). All programs are subject to cancellation for live events at Deep Wireless. Explore...
April 2012
6 posts
HAID '12: The Seventh International Workshop on... →
The Seventh International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) - August 23-24 2012 in Lund, Sweden.
The combination of haptic and audio for interaction design is a challenging research area, and we invite researchers and practitioners interested in these non-visual modalities to come to HAID to exchange designs and research findings. This year’s HAID has a particular (but not...
Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2012: The Power of... →
DEAF is one of the most important international festivals focusing on art and media technology, and can be regarded as a showcase for research and production of new media art. The festival started under the name Manifestation for the Unstable Media in 1987 and got its new name - DEAF in 1994. DEAF features an extensive program addressing art, technology, science and society.
DEAF presents a...
Research position at IRCAM
A temporary research position in the PHYSIS project is available at IRCAM. Please find more details at http://www.ircam.fr/71.html?&L=1 or here below.
Researcher for modelling and synthesis of sound textures (ANR project: PHYSIS) Availability: start date: June 2012 Duration: 12 months (an extension of up to 6 months is possible) A full time researcher position is available in the...
BYSTANDER SUES CITY OF PITTSBURGH OVER PAIN AND... →
G-20 Marked First Use of LRAD Technology on US Civilians
September 21, 2011
PITTSBURGH - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Karen Piper, a bystander who suffered permanent hearing loss after Pittsburgh police deployed a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) against protestors during the 2009 G-20 Summit. An LRAD emits harmful, pain-inducing...
Designing the sound of a car →
Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art - Exhibition →
The exhibition “Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art” presents for the first time the development of sound art in the 21th century at the ZKM | Media Museum and in a public space. From Futurism to Fluxus, through to Twitter sonifications, the ZKM charts the history of Sound Art during the 20th century. However, focus is placed on contemporary practices: with works from 90 artists from...
March 2012
5 posts
Everyday Listening
Everyday Listening collects inspiring and remarkable sound art and creative sound design projects, installations, reviews of urban soundscapes, places, contemporary or experimental, mostly electronic music. You might also read about new ways of using and distributing music and sound.
The term Everyday Listening is used to describe the way we use sound to find our way in our everyday life....
Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art
SONM: SOUND ARCHIVE OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND SOUND ART
www.sonm.es // info@sonm.es
Directors / Curators: Francisco López, Marta López-Briones
Organization: Jesús de la Peña, Susana López
SONM is a sound archive of experimental music and sound art that I established in 2010 at the Cultural Center “Puertas de Castilla” in Murcia, Spain. The archive is made up of my personal collection, which...
Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body
Sonic Somatic: Performances of the Unsound Body by Christof Migone Errant Bodies Press: Audio Issues Vol. 5 ISBN: 978-0-9827439-4-2 Design: fliegende Teilchen, Berlin $21 (296 page, black and white images) This book delineates a territory of investigation for sound art and its various manifestations through historical, theoretical, polemical and critical analyses of artistic, musical and...
Andalucia Soundscape
58 Processions. Listening through Holy Week.
In April 2007 and March 2008 Duncan Whitley and James Wyness travelled to Seville (Spain) to carry out field work, documenting the celebrations of ‘Semana Santa’ (Holy Week).
During the course of Semana Santa the artists captured a series of field recordings examining the sonic language of the processions. The recordings document the syntactical use...
February 2012
4 posts
Rap music powers medical sensor →
January 30, 2012
A driving bass rhythm can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.
Low-frequency acoustic waves from music were found to effectively recharge the pressure sensor. Such a device might ultimately help to treat people stricken with aneurisms or incontinence due to paralysis.
Ref.: A. Kim, T. Maleki, and B. Ziaie, A...
Ecomusicologies 2012 →
30-31 October 2012, New Orleans
Pre-Conference (Live & Virtual) to the AMS/SEM/SMT 2012 Joint Annual Meeting
The AMS Ecocriticism Study Group and the SEM Ecomusicology Special Interest Group invite submissions on research from any academic field related to any issues of and around ecomusicology (ecocritical / ecological / environmental studies of music and/or sound), which is broadly...
On Site Review Call for Contributions →
On Site Review # 28 will be devoted to the theme of ‘Architecture and Sound.’ In addition to articles, photographs, and drawings, the journal will also incorporate a sound exhibition tentatively titled sonic/tech/tonic. Joseph Heathcott will curate the sound compilation.
Architecture and Sound have always been closely entwined through a range of modes, materials, scales, and...
MUSIC SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE
10/01/2012
A publication of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture with contributions of Justin Bennett, Barry Blesser, Berend Jan Bockting, Cilia Erens, Raviv Ganchrow, Sebastian Janusz, Maarten Kloos, Lieselore Maes, Rob Metkemeijer, Linda-Ruth Salter, Sjoerd Soeters, Machiel Spaan, Bart Visser and Jacob Voorthuis (Architectura & Natura Publishers) ISBN...
January 2012
8 posts
Research
Therapeutic ultrasound as a potential male contraceptive: power, frequency and temperature required to deplete rat testes of meiotic cells and epididymides of sperm determined using a commercially available system
James K Tsuruta, Paul A Dayton, Caterina M Gallippi, Michael G O’Rand, Michael A Streicker, Ryan C Gessner, Thomas S Gregory, Erick JR Silva, Katherine G Hamil, Glenda J...
4th Music and Media Meeting →
4th MaM Meeting (Turin, June 28 & 29, 2012 )
The IMS study group “Music and Media” (MaM) will hold its fourth international meeting in Turin at the Università di Torino , as pre-conference to the IMS Rome 2012 conference. One of the themes will be ‘ Unheard Melodies : 25 years’. This session will thematize a retrospective on Claudia Gorbman’s groundbreaking book on the role of narrative film...
Laboratory of Applied Bio-Acoustics (LAB) →
Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science, which investigates sound production and reception in animals, including man, the biological acoustically-borne information transfer and its propagation in elastic media. Bioacoustics also refers to the organs of hearing and to the sound production apparatus, as well as to the physiological and neurophysiological processes by which sounds are...
Listening to Deep-Ocean Environment
Pierre Henry: Paroxysms - World Premiere →
Pierre Henry is the father of musique concrete, and pioneered most of the recording techniques musicians use today.
His reputation outpasses the frontiers of pure classical and French musics. In 1967, he composed Psyché Rock, an internationally successful track remixed from then on by many DJs and bands (Willy Orbit, Stereolab, Fatboy Slim, Christopher Tyng for the US TV show Futurama, Moog...
Noise induced hearing loss and other hearing... →
An investigation of the hearing status of musicians of professional symphony orchestras, performed by researchers from ENT-Audiology, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, Netherlands.
The Revolution is Hear! Sound Art, the Everyday... →
PhD thesis by Florian Hollerweger at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. Supervised by Dr. Pedro Rebelo and Prof. Michael Alcorn.
Abstract
This thesis presents a body of practical and theoretical work, which interprets sound art as a means of encouraging aural awareness in an everyday context. Through a methodological feedback loop of artistic practice and...
the global composition →
Conference on Sound, Media and the Environment
July 25-28 2012, Hochschule Darmstadt
Media Campus Dieburg, Germany
No sound exists on its own: The Global Composition
Considering the world’s objects as instruments, its inhabitants as their players and all sounds on the globe taking place simultaneously, leads to the imagination of a global composition. Any audible phenomenon is part of...
December 2011
4 posts
Soundtrackcity komt naar Rotterdam
In samenwerking met het International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) ontwikkelt Soundtrackcity vier geluidswandelingen op de kop van Zuid in Rotterdam.
Wat gebeurt er als je de straat op gaat in plaats van in de bioscoop te zitten om zowel operateur als toeschouwer te zijn van je eigen film? Een film die niet bestaat uit celluloidbeelden of bits en bytes,...
© Max Neuhaus
Lundi 5 décembre - 19h à La BPI Centre Georges Pompidou
Organisé par les Instants Chavirés, en partenariat avec l’IDEAT, Institut d’Esthétique des Arts et Technologies (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS UMR 8153), le département Musique de l’Université Paris 8, l’ENSAP-Cergy, la Bibliothèque Robert Desnos, le CDMC, L’Échangeur, le CAC de Brétigny et la...
Ear Room →
…interviews exploring the use of sound in artistic practice.
EAR ROOM
re-sounding dialogues across the globe
Sound in Media Culture: Symposium, Staging Sound... →
By Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Berlin
Staging Sound in the Museum: The Ears-on Experience of History – Symposium Friday February 3, 2012
http://www.soundmediaculture.net/
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum
http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/
in cooperation with Maastricht University & Amsterdam Museum – Fee: €20 (including lunch and afternoon drinks)
Registration:...
November 2011
1 post
Occupy L.A. and the Art World →
A wave of art projects go hand in hand with the protest
By Catherine Wagley Thursday, Nov 24 2011
On Nov. 11, artists Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper brought two big, flesh-colored papier-mâché ears and a handful of poster-board signs with ears drawn on them down to the tarp-covered library at Occupy L.A. There they met up with a small group of artists, writers and curious occupiers,...
September 2011
4 posts
Minute of Listening: Call for Sounds →
Sound and Music are inviting musicians, field recordists and sonic artists from around the world to be part of a new creative learning project.
Minute of Listening encourages children and teachers to engage in 60 seconds of focused listening each day. Delivered to the classroom through a custom-built piece of software, the project aims to encourage imaginative class discussion and a passion...
STEIM patterns+pleasure festival →
Patterns + Pleasure Festival
New Adventures in Live Electronic Music and Beyond
New musical instruments from the last century – the Theremin, electric guitar, synthesizer, turntable – were outlandish, noisy, and often threatening to the conventional. But to the fresh ear these were instruments of pleasure and freedom that sparked creativity. From Edgar Varése to Grandmaster Flash, new...
SONICANTA →
photo by Nathan Gibbs (Creative Commons)
SonicAnta: (sah-nik-on-ta) n.adj.v. Sonic: Of and pertaining to sound; Anta: A Sanskrit word meaning border or end of known territory. First formal usage of the term SonicAnta documented in 2005.
SonicAnta.com is dedicated to chronicling a lifetime of original sound exploration and innovation by Glenn Weyant.
From compositions played upon the...
http://www.projectsoundwave.com/ →
The next season of Soundwave will explore our sonic connections to the human condition. For HUMANITIES, Soundwave seeks artists, composers and musicians to investigate our human experience, and examine the future of our human constructs, cultures and rituals through sound. From Season 4’s outward examination of the environment to Season 5’s inward reflection of our own being and existence, the...
August 2011
3 posts
Nature of the Night Sky (2011) →
Bavarian Forest Sound Installation, May 7 – Sept 18
Jeff Talman returns to Germany this spring for his fourth Bavarian Forest sound installation, a starlit program beginning just after sundown every evening. A Berghof Gibacht commission, Nature of the Night Sky will feature the spherical harmonic resonance of the stars as its sole sound source.
Stars create thousands of roaring resonant sounds...
Sound Art Theories Symposium
The Sound Arts Theories Symposium (SATS) presents a selection of current theoretical work in the area of sound art. Recent work in sound art theory is multi-faceted, which is why the title above is in the plural. The symposium is particularly interested in presenting papers that focus on critical approaches to sound art that are not necessarily nor primarily related to music. These could...
The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock →
By JON PARELES
Published: August 9, 2011
At the Holland Tunnel, A Tone Poem of Gridlock
A red-white-and-blue sign at the corner of West Broadway and Watts Street in SoHo reads, “Don’t Honk — $350 Penalty.” It is, shall we say, not always heeded. This corner is a five-way crossing, where Broome Street forks into Watts, which leads to the Holland Tunnel and crosses West Broadway, which has...
July 2011
5 posts
FUKUSHIMA! AMSTERDAM →
“Not No More Fukushima nor Stand Up Fukushima, but just Fukushima!, free of any adjectives. We want to start by looking at Fukushima in its current state, unvarnished by any words.”
Project Fukushima! Executive Committee: Michiro Endo, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryoichi Wago
For this event, we have asked four Japanese artists living in the Netherlands to present new collaborative projects.
As dancer...
Sounding Underground: Linking urban soundscapes... →
Ximena Alarcón: Sounding Underground
listening, performing and transforming the commuting experience
In 1997 the creation of a virtual underground was somehow a bizarre idea that the author attempted to realize. First, the representation of metaphors of a metro in a multimedia format opened ideas of what could be possible to achieve on the Internet, e.g. how sound fragments uploaded by...
SONIC JOURNEYS →
Sonic Journeys is a new collection of aural landscapes that connect the creator, listener and music with the world around us.
Sonic Journeys commissions artists to create new works in response to specific stretches of landscape that inspire them on various journeys taken by foot, train and other modes of transport in rural and urban locations. These works will then be recorded and available...
Improvisation Across Abilities: Adaptive Use... →
From Music and Medicine
http://mmd.sagepub.com/content/3/3/172
A Musical Improvisation Interface for People With Severe Physical Disabilities
1Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, NY, USA
2Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada
3ARSVIVA Centre for Art Therapies and Health, Santiago, Chile
Abstract
In response to the challenge of including students with...
Deep Listening Anthology II →
…The performance scores collected here range from cryptic Fluxus-like instructional pieces, to sonic meditations, through all levels of graphic and specialized notations (including a variety of perspectives on Just Intonation), as well as traditionally notated scores and works of visual art. But the thread that holds all of these works together is listening through that particular lens...
June 2011
2 posts
World Listening Day
The second annual World Listening Day happens on July 18, 2011. The purposes of World Listening Day are:
to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology;
to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, World Listening Project, and individual and group efforts...
Conference on Listening
Conference on the theme of “Listening” promoted by the American Society for Cybernetics, August 2011
The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is pleased to make a second announcement of our conference, to be held in Richmond, Indiana, 11 to 13 August 2011, focusing on the theme of listening. We take listening to be a metaphor for attentively attending to others, to understand their...
May 2011
6 posts
Forthcoming movie on Dutch auditory culture
Film maker Stella van Voorst van Beest (http//:www.directorsguild.nl/leden/view/13083) just got fundings to make a movie on Dutch soundscapes.