Why not join us? The section of musicology at the University of Copenhagen is looking for a new colleague (assistant professor, tenure track) in the area of popular music studies – with …Continue reading
Sonic Talks Online
All three Sonic Talks In a Forest of Letters, performed on the evenings of July 13th, 14th and 15th, 2020, at CLB Berlin by Holger Schulze together with artists, researchers, writers and …Continue reading
Optimierung
(eine frühere Version erschien in: MERKUR 71 (2017), No. 818, S. 57-62) Die Umgebung, in der Sie arbeiten, ist nicht optimal. Vor allem sensorisch. Es riecht komisch, vielleicht müsste der Bürostuhl ausgetauscht, …Continue reading
NOISE IS JOY
(Danish translation by Steffen Krejberg Knudsen: Støj er nydelse. Støjens antropologi, in: Kulturo 22 (2016) No. 41, Støj, p. 10-18) I. SILENCE IS HORROR Have you ever experienced total and radical silence? …Continue reading
Pre-Acoustic Sound Studies
The field of sound studies often gets restricted to sound practices, listening experiences and auditory dispositives after the advent of modern acoustics, established as an academic subdisciplin of physics in the 19th …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
KRIEG SINGEN
Wie gehen Krieg und Musik zusammen? Beziehungsweise: Wieso gehen Krieg und Musik so gut zusammen? In Anknüpfung an die HKW-Programme Krieg erzählen (Februar 2014) und Böse Musik (Oktober 2013) wird vom 14. …Continue reading
Future War Orchestra
As part of the thematic weekend Krieg singen (Singing the War) currently in preparation by Detlef Diederichsen and Holger Schulze at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin for January 2016 rapper …Continue reading
On Memorial Silence
In volume no. 5 of the Sound Studies Book Series (founded by Holger Schulze) the history of the theatre of memorial silence‹ is explored by reseacher Ross Brown. The author describes the …Continue reading
New Approaches To Listening
Listening is a core issue of sound studies. The plasticity of listening situations, listening practices and listening discourses has recurrently been discussed in this interdisciplinary research field. On thursday November 19, 2015 …Continue reading