People
FOUNDING EDITORS
Marcel Cobussen
Philosopher and musician. Teaches Music Philosophy and Sound Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands, Department of Humanities.
Vincent Meelberg
Philosopher, musicologist, and musician. Teaches at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Sharon Stewart Musician and educator. She has a private piano practice and guest lectures at the University of Utrecht and University College Utrecht.
EDITORIAL BOARD (alphabetical order)
Christoph Cox
Professor of Philosophy, teaches and writes on contemporary European philosophy and contemporary art and music.
Simon Emmerson
Composer of electroacoustic music, mostly working with live electronics. Since November 2004 Emmerson has been Professor in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, following twenty eight years as Director of the Electroacoustic Music studios at City University, London.
Veit Erlmann Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won numerous prizes, including the Alan P.Merriam award for the best English monograph in ethnomusicology, the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association and, most recently, the Mercator Prize of the German Research Foundation DFG. He has published widely on music and popular culture in South Africa, including African Stars. Studies in Black South African Performance ((University of Chicago Press, 1991); Nightsong: Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa (University of Chicago Press, 1996); and Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination. South Africa and the West (Oxford University Press, 1999). His most recent publication is Reason and Resonance. A History of Modern Aurality (Zone Books, 2010).
Aden Evens
Evens researches across a variety of disciplines, including new media studies, philosophy, mathematics, music, and literature. Evens is author of Sound Ideas. Music, Machines, and Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). His teaching focuses on new media and digital technologies, but also includes forays into composition, post-structuralist theory, music, and literature, especially post-modern literature.
Anahid Kassabian James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music, University of Liverpool. Her work has focused on film music, ubiquitous listening, and, most recently, sound and music in smartphones, viral videos, and other digital media forms. She is also involved in Middle East arts, including serving on the board of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival.
Kassabian is author of several books including Hearing Film (Routledge, 2001) and Ubiquitous Listening (University of California Press, forthcoming).
Brandon LaBelle
Artist and writer. LaBelle works with sound and the specifics of location. His work explores the space between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as creative supplements to existing conditions. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (Continuum, 2006) and Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (Continuum, 2010).
Francisco Lopez
Internationally recognized major figure of the sound art and experimental music scene. He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in 60 countries. His extensive catalog of sound pieces has been released by more than 200 record labels worldwide, and he has been awarded three times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival.
Eduardo Reck Miranda
Composer working at the crossroads of music and science. His music is informed and inspired by his research into Artificial Intelligence and his repertoire includes music for symphonic orchestras, chamber groups, solo instruments - with and without live electronics - and electroacoustic music. Currently, he is Professor of Computer Music in the School of Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth (UK) where he is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR).
Jonathan Sterne Scholar who writes on sound and music, history and philosophy of technology, cultural studies and digital media. Author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke University Press, 2003), MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012), editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012). Sterne teaches in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He also makes sound. http://sterneworks.org
Jean-Paul Thibaud
Sociologist and urban planner, is senior researcher at CNRS and researcher at Cresson (Centre de Recherche sur l’Espace Sonore et l’Environnement Urbain / Research Center on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment). His field of research is related to the theory of urban ambiances, the ordinary perception in urban environment, the sensory culture and ethnography of public places. He is the scientific coordinator of the International Ambiances Network (www.ambiances.net).
David Toop
Musician, writer, and sound curator. Among his books are Ocean of Sound (Serpent’s Tail, 1995), Haunted Weather (Serpent’s Tail, 2004) and Sinister Sonorance (Continuum, 2010).
Stephen Vitiello
Electronic musician and sound artist. Vitiello transforms incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment. As an installation artist, he is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment.
