»Sound is not incidental to popular culture: it is fundamental to it.« From an infant’s gurgles over a baby monitor to the roar of the crowd in a stadium to the sub-bass …Continue reading
Register Now for the Functional Sounds Conference 2013!
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
Call For Papers: Functional Sounds 2013
After being founded in July this year the European Sound Studies Association ESSA just issued a Call for Papers for its first international conference, taking place in Berlin between October 4-6 in …Continue reading
Sound design & acoustic ecology
In midst of a very warm October the members and guests of the international research network Sound in Media Culture met for the sixth time, this time in Milano at the very …Continue reading
Foundation of the European Sound Studies Association
These days the international and interdisciplinary efforts to combine the research approaches to sound studies result in a crucial step towards greater coherence: the most renowned and experienced researchers and artists in …Continue reading
New Technologies & New Sound Practices
On May 11th-13th the international research network Sound in Media Culture met for the fifth time to discuss current issues in the field of sound studies. This time we met in Lüneburg, …Continue reading