Historical & cultural anthropology of sonic & sensory experiences
Welche zeichenhafte Qualitäten haben einzelne Klangereignisse – jenseits musikalischer Praktiken? Worin besteht ihre spezifische Zeichenhaftigkeit – untersucht anhand konkreter, pragmatisch verankerter Zeichenprozesse? Wie konstituieren sich solche Klangzeichen im Spannungsfeld lebensweltlicher Praktiken, ihrer …Continue reading
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
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
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
To continue the previous posts, I want to elaborate the fourth statement in my list, namely: 4. The discourse community of electronic music has more genres in the communicative furtherance, e.g. Internet …Continue reading
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
For those of you not familiar with it: H-Soz-u-Kult is an online periodical which distributes reviews of books, conferences etc. on a daily basis. Its background lies in history, but it has …Continue reading
(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
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
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
