Cultural theory & design theory of non-verbal sounds of communication
Honestly… who is watching the German – Greek soccer match in this very moment? I remember a few years back having a work meeting with Bjørn Melhus on his ateliers roof top …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
The latest release in the Sound Studies Book Series (in German) brings volume 4: Das geschulte Ohr: eine Kulturgeschichte der Sonifikation. This volume presents the first comprehensive publication on the cultural history …Continue reading
This newsbite from today points in a very probable direction: how the functional sounds of mobile voice assistants & automotive navigation systems will merge in the very near future. Look out for …Continue reading
On occasion of our last visit to the cottage of my wife’s parents one evening we spoke lengthily about the research question and methodology of the Functional Sounds-project. The following morning, preparing …Continue reading
In our recent meetings concerning our Functional Sounds-project we discussed basic texts from the field of cultural semiotics or Kultursemiotik. A basic text from Roland Posner (Posner, Roland (2003a): Kultursemiotik. In: Nünning, …Continue reading
Today is my third day in the archive for semiotics at UdK. My starting point was to look at the section of the archive dedicated to semiotics of music, a section which …Continue reading
I would like to talk here about how the approach of cultural semiotics is useful for an analysis of non-verbal/functional sounds. At least three questions seem important in this context: How do …Continue reading
