KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, February 11-12
A symposium entitled "Sound is Motion" will be held on February 11, in connection to Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen's doctoral thesis defence on February 12. Both events take place at the Department for Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, in Stockholm, http://www.speech.kth.se/info/location.html and are open for all, and if you happen to be around Stockholm at the time, you are very welcome to participate.
"Sound is Motion" symposium, February 11, 14:00
Sound is usually the result of actions, such as body gestures or mechanical movements. Therefore sound is closely related to motion. Humans are very sensitive to variations of the acoustical signal in the time-frequency plane, making it possible to discriminate between body gestures even in sound.
In recent years, significant advances have been made in the study and development of techniques for musical motion data analysis and motion capture. In general, body gestures allow expressive control in sound production, and interpretation of gestures enables the extraction of the expressive content in human continuous actions.
In the "Sound is Motion" symposium, six experts will tackle the field of Sound and Motion from different perspectives. The symposium starts at 14:00. Place: Room Fantum, Department for Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, in Stockholm.
"The acoustics and performance of DJ scratching" PhD defence, February 12, 10:00
Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen will defend his thesis "The acoustics and performance of DJ scratching. Analysis and modeling". This thesis focuses on the analysis and modeling of scratching, in other words, the DJ (disk jockey) practice of using the turntable as a musical instrument. Scratching has developed to become a skillful instrument-playing practice with complex musical output. The impact on popular music culture has been significant, and for many, the DJ set-up of turntables and a mixer is now a natural instrument choice for undertaking a creative music activity. Six papers are included in the thesis, where the first three approach the acoustics and performance of scratching, and the second three approach scratch modeling and the DJ interface.
The defense starts at 10:00. Place: Room F2, Lindstedtsvägen 26, KTH, Stockholm
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Call for papers: Sound studies konference in Århus, september 2010
Sound as Art - Sound in History, Sound as Culture - Sound in Theory
Conference on sound studies
University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010
Call for papers
Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, sound studies contribute to the understanding of currents in social and global activity increasingly determined by auditory, sonic, and communicative materiality. At the same time, the exploration of auditivity and auditory cultures raises a series of significant aesthetic, medial, historical, cultural, and theoretical questions.
Cultural changes related to globalization and digital media have questioned traditional paradigms of vision containing notions of visual representation, semiotics, and a hermeneutics based on reading. Such changes suggest an auditive paradigm in which modes of interaction, mobile communications, and spatial and geographic fluidity lead to a renewed sense of orality and listening. In research this new paradigm is establishing itself as the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. It draws on disciplines such as musicology, performance studies, art history, anthropology, cultural studies, urban studies, and histories of technology and media while influencing these disciplines with new modes of reflection on and examination of their respective methodologies and subsequent political effects.
The aim of the conference is to profile contemporary sound studies as an interdisciplinary field of studies and to contribute to the discussion and development of the auditive paradigm in general. Key concepts like 'acoustemology', 'acoustic space' or 'sonic environment' might be reflected upon and developed as well, both at a theoretical level and with regard to specific cultural, medial and aesthetic contexts.
The programme of the conference will consist of keynote lectures, plenary roundtables, thematic workshops and individual presentations. Individual presentations and entire workshops may draw inspiration from the following array of questions:
Conference on sound studies
University of Aarhus, Denmark
September 23–25, 2010
Call for papers
Today, sound studies provide an important framework for furthering cultural research related to a broad range of historical and contemporary issues. Also, sound studies contribute to the understanding of currents in social and global activity increasingly determined by auditory, sonic, and communicative materiality. At the same time, the exploration of auditivity and auditory cultures raises a series of significant aesthetic, medial, historical, cultural, and theoretical questions.
Cultural changes related to globalization and digital media have questioned traditional paradigms of vision containing notions of visual representation, semiotics, and a hermeneutics based on reading. Such changes suggest an auditive paradigm in which modes of interaction, mobile communications, and spatial and geographic fluidity lead to a renewed sense of orality and listening. In research this new paradigm is establishing itself as the interdisciplinary field of sound studies. It draws on disciplines such as musicology, performance studies, art history, anthropology, cultural studies, urban studies, and histories of technology and media while influencing these disciplines with new modes of reflection on and examination of their respective methodologies and subsequent political effects.
The aim of the conference is to profile contemporary sound studies as an interdisciplinary field of studies and to contribute to the discussion and development of the auditive paradigm in general. Key concepts like 'acoustemology', 'acoustic space' or 'sonic environment' might be reflected upon and developed as well, both at a theoretical level and with regard to specific cultural, medial and aesthetic contexts.
The programme of the conference will consist of keynote lectures, plenary roundtables, thematic workshops and individual presentations. Individual presentations and entire workshops may draw inspiration from the following array of questions:
- What is the experiential framework of listening and auditive culture, and how is the world constituted (identity, locality, sociality, culture etc) through auditive practice?
- How has musical and technological sound production and perception changed through the last century and how has it contributed to everyday soundscapes, the concert hall, and the media?
- What can we know, i.e., what types of knowledge, identity and meaning are made possible through acoustic practice – are there any limits to sound taken as an experiential framework and as cognition?
- What perspectives might arise from current studies of auditory modes of relating to space, of appropriating, expressing and designing social environments?
- How does sound help define urban environments, and how might issues related to urban planning, architectural design, and noise benefit from a deeper and more complex understanding of sound?
- What are the correlations between listening and other sensory modalities, the body, sociality, materiality, technology and media (sound viewed as a cognitive paradigm isolated from actual resonating sound).
- How do auditive practices appear to be conventional or normative? How do auditive practices, in conjunction with other sensory modalities, articulate value, aesthetics, ethics and morals in culture?
- How do we further the development of academic terminologies for dealing with sound?
- How can transgressions of traditional distinctions between sound, music and art be understood in a socio-cultural perspective?
- What do the specific aesthetic aspects of sound art seek to achieve in contrast to the predominance of visuality and modes of seeing within the arts?
- How is artistic and academic education in sound competence developing?
Proposals for presentations (20/10 mins) or workshops (90 mins) must be submitted to the conference organisers/programme committee by April 1, 2010 as an email attachment (rtf/pdf/doc) to soundstudies@hum.au.dk.
Please include the following information: Paper abstract and title (max. 200 words), name(s), affiliation, e-mail, and technical equipment required (PC/DVD/CD/data projector/over-head projector/etc.).
Notifications of acceptance will be sent no later than May 3, 2010.
Keynote speakers are Dr. Penelope Gouk (University of Manchester), Dr. Jean-Paul Thibaud (CRESSON), and professor Adam Krims (University of Nottingham).
The official language of the conference is English. The conference fee is 1.000 D.Kr/€135. Please contact one of the organisers mentioned below in case you need more information.
The conference is organized by the "National Research Network on Auditive Culture"(http://auditiveculture.ku.dk/), the research project "Audiovisual Culture" (http://www.ak.au.dk/en), and the Nordic Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Hz #14
Hz #14 December 2009:
Metal and Wind: Bertoia and the Space of Reverie by Michael Filimowicz
"Offering to the Wind, as the Bertoia sound sculpture is now known, offers one possible solution to the problem of soundscape design for the city's places of leisure and reverie...It reverses a certain urban deafness, returning the possibility of silences between sounds, producing a quietude in the midst of the city roar."
Embodiment and Technology: Towards a Utopian Dialectic by Belinda Haikes
"David Rokeby's A Very Nervous System and Steve Mann's Wearable Computer are discussed in this essay as examples of "Utopian quest for technological embodiment... ... that seeks to move beyond the anxiety of new media and to position our culture to examine the space between the ultimate dialectics, that of man and the machine."
Sensory Substitution by judsoN
"There is some debate whether cases of sensory substitution are the results of imaginativeness, psychological effects or neurological (mis-)wiring....We have evidence such substitutions do happen....Whether or not Wagner, Klee or Kandinsky actually had synesthesia, there is a rich history of people equating one type of sensory stimuli for another."
Chong! A Parallel Environment by Joaquin Gasgonia Palencia
"Chong! endeavors to showcase an interfacial encounter between humans and robots, much like human peers meeting for the first time, without the robot having to fulfill a function.... The end purpose of this environmental installation is to give the human a small window into how a robot may perceive humans and how it processes that information."
Artistic Textual and Performative Paths in New Media Correlations: An Interview with Annie Abrahams by Evelin Stermitz
"Evelin Stermitz' interview with net artist Annie Abrahams, whose "works are structured on both digitized hyper and on site realities. She constructs forms of collective writings on the net and reconstructs them into offline perceptions, which leads to creations of net-operas and other web based interventions."
Progressions: Toward a Poetic Improvisation of Listening by Brian Schorn
Brian Schorn's poems here "...are an attempt to create a writing environment parallel to that of musical improvisation...by using the Surrealist technique of automatic writing while listening to a representative number of improvised recordings....Six classifications of improvisation and nine composer/performers were used to generate the writings..."
Hz Net Gallery presents 6 net art works:
Buffalo weekly videos by Alysse Stepanian,
The Natual "High-Times" Sound Shuttle by Rudi Punzo,
Baptize by Aaron Oldenburg,
In His Memory (Starman) by Aaron Higgins,
Keyword Intervention by Owen Mundy and
Radiant Copenhagen by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum
Metal and Wind: Bertoia and the Space of Reverie by Michael Filimowicz
"Offering to the Wind, as the Bertoia sound sculpture is now known, offers one possible solution to the problem of soundscape design for the city's places of leisure and reverie...It reverses a certain urban deafness, returning the possibility of silences between sounds, producing a quietude in the midst of the city roar."
Embodiment and Technology: Towards a Utopian Dialectic by Belinda Haikes
"David Rokeby's A Very Nervous System and Steve Mann's Wearable Computer are discussed in this essay as examples of "Utopian quest for technological embodiment... ... that seeks to move beyond the anxiety of new media and to position our culture to examine the space between the ultimate dialectics, that of man and the machine."
Sensory Substitution by judsoN
"There is some debate whether cases of sensory substitution are the results of imaginativeness, psychological effects or neurological (mis-)wiring....We have evidence such substitutions do happen....Whether or not Wagner, Klee or Kandinsky actually had synesthesia, there is a rich history of people equating one type of sensory stimuli for another."
Chong! A Parallel Environment by Joaquin Gasgonia Palencia
"Chong! endeavors to showcase an interfacial encounter between humans and robots, much like human peers meeting for the first time, without the robot having to fulfill a function.... The end purpose of this environmental installation is to give the human a small window into how a robot may perceive humans and how it processes that information."
Artistic Textual and Performative Paths in New Media Correlations: An Interview with Annie Abrahams by Evelin Stermitz
"Evelin Stermitz' interview with net artist Annie Abrahams, whose "works are structured on both digitized hyper and on site realities. She constructs forms of collective writings on the net and reconstructs them into offline perceptions, which leads to creations of net-operas and other web based interventions."
Progressions: Toward a Poetic Improvisation of Listening by Brian Schorn
Brian Schorn's poems here "...are an attempt to create a writing environment parallel to that of musical improvisation...by using the Surrealist technique of automatic writing while listening to a representative number of improvised recordings....Six classifications of improvisation and nine composer/performers were used to generate the writings..."
Hz Net Gallery presents 6 net art works:
Buffalo weekly videos by Alysse Stepanian,
The Natual "High-Times" Sound Shuttle by Rudi Punzo,
Baptize by Aaron Oldenburg,
In His Memory (Starman) by Aaron Higgins,
Keyword Intervention by Owen Mundy and
Radiant Copenhagen by Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Some upcoming conferences 2010
The second International symposium on ambisonics and spherical acoustics will be held on May 6-7, 2010, at IRCAM, Paris. Read the call for participation for information on how to submit papers and demos. The previous conference was held in Austria 2009. Proceedings are available online.
The 7th Electroacoustic music studies conference will take place in Shanghai, June 21-24, 2010. This year's theme is "Teaching electroacoustic music". Read the call for papers for more information. Proceedings from previous conferences are available.
The 7th Sound and music computing conference, Barcelona, July 21-24, 2010, is open for both paper and music contributions. The concert hall has an octophonic system. Earlier proceedings are searchable online.
The 13th International conference on digital audio effects will be held in Graz, Austria, September 6-10, 2010. For more info, see call for papers; links to previous conferences/proceedings are at the main DAFx web site.
Updated December 6, 2009; originally posted November 23, 2009.
The 7th Electroacoustic music studies conference will take place in Shanghai, June 21-24, 2010. This year's theme is "Teaching electroacoustic music". Read the call for papers for more information. Proceedings from previous conferences are available.
The 7th Sound and music computing conference, Barcelona, July 21-24, 2010, is open for both paper and music contributions. The concert hall has an octophonic system. Earlier proceedings are searchable online.
The 13th International conference on digital audio effects will be held in Graz, Austria, September 6-10, 2010. For more info, see call for papers; links to previous conferences/proceedings are at the main DAFx web site.
Updated December 6, 2009; originally posted November 23, 2009.
Friday, 27 November 2009
New books in EMS' library
- Bailey, Thomas Bey William: Micro-bionic : radical electronic music and sound art in the 21st century
- Composers inside electronics : music after David Tudor (Leonardo music journal, vol. 14)
- Edström, Olle (ed.): Säg det om toner och därtill i ord : musikforskare berättar om 1900-talets musikliv
- Frisk, Henrik: Improvisation, computers and interaction : rethinking human-computer interaction through music (Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts ; 6)
- Haglund, Magnud (ed.): Musikens plats = The place of music (ArtMonitor : en tidskrift för konstnärlig forskning, no. 7, 2009)
- Hansen, Tone (ed.): To be heard is to be seen
- Hedfors, Per: Site soundscapes : landscape architecture in the light of sound : sonotope design strategies
- Hirst, David: A cognitive framework for the analysis of acousmatic music : analysing Wind chimes by Denis Smalley
- Holmes, Thom: Electronic and experimental music : technology, music and culture
- Lundsten, Ralph: Happy earthday : lustbara kåserier : verbala dumheter och sinnliga exkursioner från Sommarprogram 1981, 1984, 1989 och 2004
- Lundsten, Ralph: En själens vagabond : en personlig levnadshistoria av och om en äventyrare i tid och rum
- Margulies, Jon: Ableton Live 8 power! : the comprehensive guide
- Banzi, Massimo: Getting started with Arduino
- McLean, Priscilla: Hanging off the edge : revelations of a modern troubadour
- Miller, Paul D. (DJ Spooky): Rhythm science
- Neuberger, Susanne (ed.): Nam June Paik : Exposition of music, electronic television : revisited
- Neuhoff, John G. (ed.): Ecological psychoacoustics
- Smallwood, Scott: Toward sound : the practice of phonography, noise and free improvisation in the Eastern US
- Ternhag, Gunnar: Vad är det jag hör? : analys av musikspelningar
- Österling, Fredrik: Komponisterna i Sverige
- Östersjö, Stefan: Shut up ’n’ play! : negotiating the musical work (Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts ; 5)
- Adorno, Theodor W.: Philosophie der neuen Musik
- Bailey, Derek: Improvisation : its nature and practice in music
- Bartók, Béla: Béla Bartók essays
- Bucht, Gunnar ; Lundahl, Per Olof & Wallner, Bo: Facetter : av och om Karl-Birger Blomdahl
- Diagram group, the: Musical instruments of the world : an illustrated encyclopedia
- Dibelius, Ulrich: Ligeti : eine Monographie in Essays
- Geiringer, Karl: Instruments in the history of Western music
- Griffiths, Paul: György Ligeti (The contemporary composers)
- György Ligeti : Gesamtverzeichnis der veröffentlichen Werke : Stand Januar 1989 = complete list of the published works : up to January 1989
- Harvey, Jonathan: The music of Stockhausen : an introduction
- Höjer, Lotta (ed.): Karl-Birger Blomdahl-festival (Konsertnytt Special, november 1990)
- Johnson, Robert Sherlaw: Messiaen
- Kolleritsch, Otto (ed.): György Ligeti : Personalstil, Avantgardismus, Popularität (Studien zur Wertungsforschung ; 19)
- Ligeti, György & Nordwall, Owe: Aventures & Nouvelles aventures : musikalisk-dramatisk handling i fjorton bilder : libretto
- Ligeti, György: Den stora makabern : Ligeti
- Ligeti, György: From sketches and unpublished scores 1938-56 : from the collection of Ove Nordwall (Publications / issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music ; 15 [i.e. 16])
- Ligeti, György: György Ligeti in conversation : with Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel and himself
- Manning, Peter: Electronic and computer music
- Marcuse, Sibyl: A survey of musical instruments
- Nadel, Myron Howard & Nadel Miller, Constance (ed.): The dance experience : readings in dance appreciation
- Nordwall, Ove: György Ligeti : eine Monographie
- Nordwall, Ove: Ligeti-dokument : brev, skizzer, partitur, kommentarer, om musikteater, om musikalisk form, verklistor
- Nyffeler, Max (ed.): Klaus Huber
- Peyser, Joan: Boulez : composer, conductor, enigma
- Sabbe, Herman: György Ligeti : Studien zur kompositorischen Phänomenologie (Musik-Konzepte ; 53)
- Stacey, Peter F.: Boulez and the modern concept
- Straviniskij, Igor: Musikalisk poetik
- Wagner, Gottfried: Weill und Brecht : das musikalische Zeittheater
Monday, 23 November 2009
Soundscape: support to health
I've previously mentioned two Swedish research initiatives on soundscapes and acoustic ecology, Urban Sound Institute and The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University.
There is also another somewhat similiar research programme, Soundscape: support to health (Ljudlanskap för bättre hälsa), which has an associated website with an introduction to acoustics, measurement and perception of noise, focused on health aspects. The introduction is in Swedish only, except for a course in engineering acoustics. An interesting twist is that the text is available in three versions: for curious people (nyfikna), for users (användare), i.e. architects, civil servants etc., and for specialists.
There is also another somewhat similiar research programme, Soundscape: support to health (Ljudlanskap för bättre hälsa), which has an associated website with an introduction to acoustics, measurement and perception of noise, focused on health aspects. The introduction is in Swedish only, except for a course in engineering acoustics. An interesting twist is that the text is available in three versions: for curious people (nyfikna), for users (användare), i.e. architects, civil servants etc., and for specialists.
Öra för ljud i SvD
A post in Swedish about some sound-related articles in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
SvD har nyligen haft en liten artikelserie om ljud och musik under rubriken Öra för ljud:
SvD har nyligen haft en liten artikelserie om ljud och musik under rubriken Öra för ljud:
- Med sikte på musikens minsta beståndsdelar - Erik Bergqvist om Gunnar Buchts Quid est tonus?
- På spaning efter de ljud som flytt - Jesper Olsson om ljudinspelning och minne
- Upptäcktsfärd bland oönskade surr och klick - Fredrik Stahlénius om ljudtvätt och brus
EAM in DDM-online
One can find quite a few dissertations on electroacoustic music at Doctoral dissertations in musicology-online. The index is searchable by keyword or classification. It is possible to use * as a wildcard, though only at the end of strings. A search for "electro*" yields 53 items, most of them relevant, while a search for items classified as "71ek*", i.e. twentieth century (7) - historical musicology (1) - electronic music (ek), lists 36 dissertations. ISBN:s are given for published works, and dissertations in progress are listed and asterisked. There are also instructions for submission of your own dissertation or topic.
Sunday, 4 October 2009
New books in EMS' library
The following reports have been kindly donated by The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University (thanks to Frans Mossberg!):
- Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien: Manifest för en bättre ljudmiljö
- Karlsson, Henrik: Lyssnande Lund : förstudie om ett tvärvetenskapligt ljudmiljöcentrum vid Lunds universitet
- Buller och hälsa : texter från seminarium den 13 januari 2006 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Förföriska ljud : texter från seminarium den 27 januari 2006 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Operativa ljud : texter från seminarium den 22 september 2006 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Skadliga ljud : texter från seminarium den 20 oktober 2006 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Ljud och inlärning : texter från seminarium den 27 april 2007 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Mossberg, Frans (ed.): Sounds of history : texts from an interdisciplinary symposium held 27 October 2007 arranged by The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden
- Karlsson, Henrik; Wikström, Owe; Svenbro, Håkan & Geels, Anton: Ljud och tystnad för sinne och själ : texter från seminarium den 28 november 2008 arrangerat av Lyssnande Lund
- Johansson, Pär: Elektronmusikens ljudlära (2007, rev. 2009)
- Schaeffer, Pierre ; examples sonore de Guy Reibel assisté de Beatriz Ferreyra: Solfège de l’objet sonore
- Swedish (hi)stories (World new music magazine no. 19, october 2009)
Hz journal - call for articles and net art
On-line journal Hz (www.hz-journal.org) is looking for articles on New Media, Net Art, Sound Art and Electro-Acoustic Music. We accept earlier published and unpublished articles in English. Please send your submissions to hz-journal(at)telia.com
Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery (www.hz-journal.org/netg). Please send your URL to hz-journal(at)telia.com
Deadline: 1 November, 2009
Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, sound artists, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html
Hz is also looking for Net Art works to be included in its virtual gallery (www.hz-journal.org/netg). Please send your URL to hz-journal(at)telia.com
Deadline: 1 November, 2009
Hz is published by the non-profit organization Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen has been known for introducing yet-to-be-established art forms throughout its history. Nam June Paik, Stockhausen, Cage, etc. have all been introduced to the Swedish audience through Fylkingen. Its members consist of leading composers, musicians, sound artists, dancers, performance artists and video artists in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit http://www.fylkingen.se/about or http://www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html
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