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I am not a board games person, yet I always seem to find myself surrounded by them. Such was the case one August evening in 2023, during a round of the bird-watching-inspired game, Wingspan. Rele...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2024/02/05/wingsong-restricting-sound-access-in-spotted-owl-recordings/

When the COVID-19 global pandemic began, news reports and studies throughout the world began citing a lot of sound-based statistics: drastic reductions in noise pollution in urban centres, AI rec...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2024/01/22/listening-together-apart-intimacy-and-affective-world-building-in-pandemic-digital-archival-sound-projects/

This series listens to the political, gendered, queer(ed), racial engagements and class entanglements involved in proclaiming out loud: La-TIN-x. ChI-ca-NA. La-TI-ne. ChI-ca-n-@.  Xi-can-x. Fund...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2023/09/11/25483/

Note: To see these tweets and videos embedded on an interactive map, click here. In the late morning of February 24th, 2022, an American journalist captured a young boy on the grand piano in Khar...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2022/06/08/mapping-the-music-in-ukraines-resistance/

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! — BONUS POST...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2022/06/08/so-amplifies-mapping-the-music-in-ukrainian-resistance2022/

Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice. Although “soundwalking” now d...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/08/12/flaneusela-caminanta/

Since its inception at the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s, soundwalking has emerged as a critical method for sound studies research and artistic practice. Although “soundwalking” now d...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2019/08/05/hearing-change-in-the-chocolate-city-soundwalking-as-black-feminist-method/

I developed the text I recite in this post as the theoretical framework for an article I’m working on about audio compression. As I was working on the article, I wondered about the role of gend...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2018/12/17/i-am-thinking-of-your-voice-gender-audio-compression-and-a-sonic-cyberfeminist-theory-of-oppression/

Ever tried listening to a Star Wars movie without the sound? –IGN, 1999 Sound is 50 percent of the motion-picture experience. –George Lucas In the radio dramatization of Return of the Jedi (1...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2018/05/21/episode-i-the-greatest-sound-in-the-galaxy-sound-and-star-wars/

A sound art multimedia piece by Anthony William Rasmussen Funded by the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant Map graphics by Julie K. Wesp Additional Footage by Oswaldo Mejía The megalopolis of ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2018/03/19/el-caracol-a-stroll-through-space-and-time-in-mexico-city/

AMBIENCE On December 28, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation debuted a radio piece by famed pianist Glenn Gould, titled The Idea of North. Opaque yet spacious, this experiment would becom...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2018/02/05/the-idea-of-an-idea-of-north-of-the-north-glenn-goulds-cbc-radio-piece-at-50/

“Decolonization,” Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang propose in “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” “is not an ‘and.’ It is an elsewhere.” Elsewhere, not here, not now. Not here. Not now...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2017/08/14/voices-at-work-listening-to-and-for-elsewhere-at-public-gatherings-in-toronto-canada-at-so-called-150/

How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs every day: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinaire, the background...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2017/01/16/listening-to-the-city-of-light-an-interview-with-des-coulam/

This past summer 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Warsaw and delivered an unplanned statement on the brutal police shooting deaths of two black men that had just occurred within one d...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/12/19/scenes-of-subjection-womens-voices-narrating-black-death/

“I drifted to another place and time,” reminisces drummer and musicologist Mickey Hart in his 2003 book about salvaging indigenous musical traditions, Songcatchers: In Search of the World’s...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/09/12/so-reads-roshanak-khestis-modernitys-ear/

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: The Reykjavik Sound Walk SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST Standing in front of our rented apartment in Túngata, ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/08/25/sounding-out-podcast-57-the-reykjavik-sound-walk/

Rui Chaves will be documenting his creation of Nendu—an archive of Brazilian sound artists—in real time on Sounding Out! throughout  2016-early 2017. A Portuguese version of Chaves’s ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/06/20/17558/

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! — What is it ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/06/06/so-amplifies-think-about-sound-app-and-map/

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! —   Pause fo...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/03/14/so-amplifies-hearmyhome-and-the-soundscapes-of-the-everyday/

Where do we begin? On Tuesday January 13th, 2015, my first-year students and I gathered for the second meeting of our seminar, “Soundscapes: Artistic, Social, and Biological Approaches to Acous...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/03/07/the-amplification-of-muted-voices-notes-on-a-recitation-of-the-adhan/

  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Yoshiwara Soundwalk: Taking the Underground to the Floating World SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST Join Gretch...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/01/28/sounding-out-podcast-49/

— SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! — The fir...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/01/18/so-amplifies-sounding-board-curated-by-leonardo-cardoso/

Marginalized bodies produce marginalized sounds to communicate things that escape language. The queer body is the site of sounds that engage pleasure, repression, rage, isolation, always somehow ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/10/05/ritual-noise-and-the-cut-up-the-art-of-tara-transitory/

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Ruptures in the Soundscape of Disneyland SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST In this podcast, Cynthia Wang shares ex...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/09/24/sounding-out-podcast-47-ruptures-in-the-soundscape-of-disneyland/

Welcome back to Unsettling the World Soundscape Project, a series edited by Randolph Jordan that looks critically and creatively at early acoustic ecology along with the writings and subsequent...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/09/03/unsettling-the-world-soundscape-project-the-bell-tower-of-false-creek-vancouver/

“I compare New York to Bangkok all the time,” a young activist told me, just moments before he joined a small, media-ready protest at the Thai consulate in midtown Manhattan. On a pleasant da...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/08/24/twitchy-ears-a-document-of-protest-sound-at-a-distance/

Welcome to Unsettling the World Soundscape Project, a new series in which we critically investigate the output of early acoustic ecology and assess its continuing value for today’s sound studie...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/08/20/unsettling-the-world-soundscape-project-soundscapes-of-canada-and-the-politics-of-self-recognition/

Today, SO! finishes its series reconsidering the life and work of Alan Lomax in his centenary year, edited by Tanya Clement of The University of Texas at Austin. We started out with Mark Davidson...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/06/08/john-lomax-and-the-creation-of-the-american-voice/

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! — Inspired by...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/05/25/so-amplifies-cities-and-memory/

Today, SO! continues its series reconsidering the life and work of Alan Lomax in his centenary year, edited by Tanya Clement of The University of Texas at Austin. We started out with Mark Davids...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/05/14/machinic-ballads-alan-lomaxs-global-jukebox-and-the-categorization-of-sound-culture/

There is no utopia without nature. Life is already a utopia–Mileece When I heard sound artist and environmental researcher Mileece refer to utopia as she presented on her bio-sound work  thi...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/05/04/sounding-our-utopia-an-interview-with-mileece/

This April forum, Acts of Sonic Intervention, explores what we over here at Sounding Out! are calling “Sound Studies 2.0”–the movement of the field beyond the initial excitement for and in...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/04/20/mobile_technologies_for_third_age_adults/

Welcome back to 100 Years of Alan Lomax, Sounding Out!‘s series dedicated to remembering, rethinking and challenging our understanding of this crucial figure in folk music history. In contrast ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/04/16/alan-lomaxs-southern-journey-and-the-sound-of-authenticity/

This week, Sounding Out! kicks off an exciting four-part series exploring the work of Alan Lomax, a key figure in sound culture studies, and one whose legacy is in the midst of being reconside...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/04/09/the-problem-of-alan-lomax-or-the-necessity-of-talking-politics-during-the-lomax-year/

. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Radio Frequencies, Radio Forms LIVE SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST Today’s podcast is an archival recording...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/01/29/sounding-out-podcast-38-radio-frequencies-radio-forms-live/

This is the conclusion to a two-part post by SO! regular writer Maile Colbert.  Read Part One from Monday, January 12th here. — As we are primarily a visual culture, no longer connected to...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/01/19/of-sound-machines-and-recording-a-sharing-that-transcends-time-and-space/

This Month will feature a two-part post by SO! regular writer Maile Colbert.  Look for Part Two on Monday, January 19th. — I was a child obsessed with time travel. Beyond favorites such as A...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/01/12/past-future-womb-sound-as-shared-experience-crossing-time-and-space/

Welcome to the second part of Radio Art Reflections, a series on radio art that brings together the thoughts of three practitioners who have been researching the field from Canada, Australia and...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/12/04/a-brief-review-of-australian-radio-art/

This week Sounding Out! is proud to present the first post in Radio Art Reflections, a three part series curated by radio artist and senior radio lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church Universit...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/11/06/someplaces-radio-art-transmission-ecology-and-chicagos-radius/

It’s an all too familiar movie trope. A bug hidden in a flower jar. A figure in shadows crouched listening at a door. The tape recording that no one knew existed, revealed at the most decisive ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/10/30/sounding-out-podcast-36-anne-zeitzs-retention/

Welcome back to Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out‘s series on how the unheard world affects us, which started out with my post on hearing large and small, continued with a piece by China Blue o...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/10/02/hunting-monsters-volcano-infrasound/

Welcome back to Hearing the UnHeard, Sounding Out‘s series on how the unheard world affects us, which started out with my post on the hearing ranges of animals, and now continues with this exci...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/09/11/catastrophic-listening/

Today the SO! Thursday stream inaugurates a four-part series entitled Hearing the UnHeard, which promises to blow your mind by way of your ears. Our Guest Editor is Seth Horowitz, a neuroscient...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/08/21/the-better-to-hear-you-with-my-dear-size-and-the-acoustic-world/

Welcome back to Sculpting the Film Soundtrack, SO!‘s new series on changing notions about how sound works in recent film and in recent film theory, edited by Katherine Spring. Two weeks ago, B...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/07/24/the-musical-flow-of-shane-carruths-upstream-color/

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERIES VIA ITUNES ADD OUR PODCASTS TO YOUR STITCHER FAVORITES PLAYLIST – Liste...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/07/17/sounding-out-podcast-32/

  Welcome to World Listening Month 2014, our annual forum on listening in observation of World Listening Day on July 18th, 2014. World Listening Day is a time to think about the impacts we h...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/07/07/listening-to-traces-of-war-gas-shell-bombardment-1918/

SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig.  You’re welcome! . — The Lond...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/06/26/13147/

This post continues our summer Sound and Pleasure series, as the third and final podcast in a three part series by Leonard J. Paul. What is the connection between sound and enjoyment, and how ...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/06/12/vessel/

A Conversation Article in Chat with  Irene Lusztig, Director of The Motherhood Archives and Sound Designer Maile Colbert In 2011 filmmaker Irene Lusztig contacted me about designing sound and co...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/03/17/sound-designing-motherhood/

Editor’s Note:  This month Sounding Out! is thrilled to bring you a collection of posts that will change the way you hear cities. The Sounds of the City series will prompt readers to think th...

https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/02/24/a-qui-la-rue-on-megaphone-and-montreals-noisy-public-sphere/