Late in 2019 and early in 2020, Salomé Voegelin and Mark Wright, directing the impressive project Listening Across Disciplines visited us here at the Sound Studies Lab. They discussed with us our …Continue reading
Sonic Fiction
The formal structures of time collapse, regress to mud, and space is pushed back and forth until it bends to be trampled by the pulsations of alien music, while the thinking space …Continue reading
The Sound of Corona
Can you hear the coronavirus? What does it sound like? Recently, some compositions which used data gathered from the coronavirus, stirred up some conversations among listeners, composers, musicians, scientists, engineers, and artists: the …Continue reading
My Listening Protocol
In recent months, Salomé Voegelin and Mark Wright, directing the impressive project Listening Across Disciplines visited me and my team here at the Sound Studies Lab. They discussed with us our research …Continue reading
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
Over a dinner at Café Wilder in Copenhagen, October 11th, 2016, we, Sanne Krogh Groth and I came across some intriguing ideas for a handbook on SOUND ART in the 21st century: …Continue reading
An Almanac of Sound Words
How do you speak about sound? This core question of sound studies and of artistic approaches around sound is probably troubling listeners and sound aficionados since the beginning of hearing – and …Continue reading
Notes on a Silent Meal II
Last week I had the honour of partaking for the third time at a so-called Silence Meal, a performance by artist Nina Backman. This time the meal was part of the Jazzfest …Continue reading
Hearing in situation
(english translation of an article by Holger Schulze: Hören in Situation. Zur Anthropologie der relationalen Klangwahrnehmung, in: Nadin Deventer & Thomas Oberender (eds.), Now This Means War. Magazin zum Jazzfest Berlin 1.-4. …Continue reading
SOUND FORMS
This week an impressive line-up of artists, performers, researchers and thinkers in the field of sound studies, sound art and sound research gathers in Copenhagen on the invitation from Jenny Gräf Sheppard, …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