Anthropology of Sound -

Historical & cultural anthropology of sonic & sensory experiences

Was ist die Befindlichkeit des Landes?

2013-01-28 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

I listen to what is sounding around me right now. It is Friday late afternoon, here in Eastern Berlin. The night just falls, around 5:40pm and I can just hear the sound …Continue reading

Vortrag: Klangwelten der Kaluli

2013-01-14 by Carla Müller-Schulzke | Comments Off

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

On the Streets of Alexandria

2012-12-24 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

The Alexandria Streets Project by Berit Schuck and Julia Tieke presents selected extracts from a soundscape research into Alexandria – its contemporary sounds, its sonic trajectories and its historical traces. The structure …Continue reading

On the Cultural History of Release Groups

2012-12-10 by Sebastian Schwesinger | Comments Off

In almost every discussion on internet culture people do defend its merits with regards to the revitalisation of sharing communities. Books are entitled Praising Copies/Lob der Kopie (Dirk von Gehlen 2011) and …Continue reading

Sounds Like Silence in Dortmund

2012-11-22 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

(Auszug aus Bring The Noize: Über die Ausstellung „Sounds Like Silence“ im Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund, erschienen in: TEXTE ZUR KUNST: GESEHEN UND BEWERTET, 21. November 2012) Wir schreiben das Jahr 2012, in …Continue reading

Reminder: Sonic Epistemologies (CfP 2013)

2012-11-06 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

This autumn the Journal of Sonic Studies issued a quite interesting call for paper for their next issue in early 2013. This upcoming issue will deal with the rather basic questions of …Continue reading

10 rules for students

2012-10-29 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

In the last weeks the winter term 2012/2013 started here in Berlin; and so I thought what good advice could I give students who wanted to study in the field of sound …Continue reading

Sound design & acoustic ecology

2012-10-25 by Holger Schulze | Comments Off

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

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