Cultural theory & design theory of sound practices in architecture and audio technology
Sonicitas (auch: sonicità, sonicité, sonicity oder Klangschaft) umfasst die personale Teilhabe an einer körperlich erfahrbaren Situation der Resonanz. Die personale Teilhabe hieran wird beschränkt durch die räumlich und zeitlich geringe Ausdehnung sowie …Continue reading
It was over a year ago, on September 1st 2012, that a new EBU-regulation was put in effect. Its goal: to put an end to the notorious and quite annoying Loudness War …Continue reading
It was about two weeks ago that I had the honour to curate with my colleague Detlef Diederichsen a festival on BÖSE MUSIK or EVIL MUSIC at the Haus der Kulturen der …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
For the last half year I have been doing research on netlabels for my Magister’s thesis. Although I wanted to cover several websites and communities which distribute or present music for free, …Continue reading
Last friday, by decision of a wide range of international and German researchers, the German Research Foundation DFG has decided to fund – besides many other projects all over Germany – also …Continue reading
Loudness wars is the name of an ongoing quarrel between producers, marketing-professionals and audiophiles. The quarrel goes about the psychoacoustic compression of sound productions to evoke the subjective impression of enhanced loudness …Continue reading
As public protests in Quebec and Montreal against various restrictions and horribly cruel laws (e.g. a 70% rise in student tuition fees and, to prevent further protests, against the right to congregate …Continue reading
Imagine 29 (yes, there’s no typo: twenty-nine) loudspeakers in a public place, all attached to a series of buildings in a street – and every day sound art pieces are played in …Continue reading
