Research assistant Sound Studies Lab
“What happens when hearing doesn’t do what it purportedly should?” This question is at the center of a promising and inspiring workshop held this summer, June 15-16 in Cambridge at the Centre …Continue reading
These days the Sound Studies Lab is working on some models regarding a cultural theory of sound design. In order to falsify or to confirm some of our assumptions and insights we …Continue reading
What happened to the so-called “Third Spaces”? When was the last time you indulged in an experience of a “Heterotopia”? How can we grasp the fabric of “Non-Places”, or “In-Between Places”? A …Continue reading
As part of the thematic weekend Krieg singen (Singing the War) currently in preparation by Detlef Diederichsen and Holger Schulze at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin for January 2016 rapper …Continue reading
The 1st International ESSA Conference FUNCTIONAL SOUNDS in pictures. Opening and Keynotes Douglas Kahn and Jason Stanyek Out of the Panels Jeremy Woodruffs Installation GONGBURGH: STEELTOWN FORESTS at Atrium at …Continue reading
Don’t forget to register for the 1st International ESSA Conference “Functional Sounds” at Humboldt University October 4-6. Early Bird tickets are available until the 12th of july. For registration visit: http://www.soundstudies.eu/conference-registration/ See …Continue reading
From today on the programme of the first ever international conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ca. 500 members at the present day) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on Functional Sounds: Auditory …Continue reading
To all who already handed in their proposals for a presentation at the first, big conference of the European Sound Studies Association on functional sounds this autumn: Thank you all! Your participation …Continue reading
1982 erschien eine epochemachende Studie des Jazzmusikers und Ethnologen Steven Feld mit dem Titel: Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics and Song in Kaluli Expression. Basierend auf seinen Feldstudien 1976/77 bei den …Continue reading
To move or to be moved? To act or being acted upon? Passivity is known as the unloved and ill sister of activity. Activity is productive, constructive, attrative, lucartive – in short: …Continue reading
