Have you ever thought about speaking aloud or singing as active exercises for strengthening the body? This was a commonly shared supposition amongst physicians in 19th century Britain where physical education gradually …Continue reading
Sound & Excellent Design
Recently, the jurors of the Association of American University Presses selected from a total of 563 entries the 52 best examples of excellent book jacket and cover design in 2017. It is …Continue reading
1 COPY TO WIN
The symposion here in Copenhagen on October 6 is only a few days away – and thanks to MIT-Press, the publisher of “Sound as Popular Culture”, we are now happy to have …Continue reading
NEW at MIT-Press: Sound as Popular Culture
»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
CFP: Anthropocene & Sonic Media Ecologies
Felix Gerloff and Sebastian Schwesinger, researchers of the Sound Studies Lab, organise an international workshop in Basel in Spring 2016 on the topic of sonic media ecologies. The past years have witnessed …Continue reading
Invitation to a disambiguation
On February the 18th, 2015 the two newly appointed professors in musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Michael Fjeldsøe and Holger Schulze will introduce themselves with an inauguration afternoon. Their approaches of …Continue reading
ESSA Conference Photostream
The 1st International ESSA Conference FUNCTIONAL SOUNDS in pictures. Opening and Keynotes Douglas Kahn and Jason Stanyek Out of the Panels Jeremy Woodruffs Installation GONGBURGH: STEELTOWN FORESTS at Atrium at …Continue reading
Towards New Sonic Epistemologies
A new issue – volume no.4 – of the international Journal of Sonic Studies (Leiden/Nijmwegen, The Netherlands) has just been released; edited by Marcel Cobussen, Holger Schulze and Vincent Meelberg this volume …Continue reading
On the Discourse Community of Electronic Music III.
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
10 rules for students
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