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The initial engagement with the concept of “play” and “event” landed very well with me. My own personal practice, and that of many of my students sustains some form of relationship with music. – this perhaps better framed using the vocabulary of Christopher Small “musicking” a broader, if not broadest, sense of all those social…
Read moreTo what extent are individuals personally responsible for their success? What is the justification for some people earning more than others? What does ‘social solidarity’ mean to you? In this post I’ll provide an overview of Holmwood’s discourse, before moving on to answering the above questions Holmwood introduces the article identifying the fact that higher…
Read moreThe first insight provided by Dall’Alba’s text is in the pedagogical relationship and integration of knowing, acting and being. This has a special relevance to my own practice based as it is upon sound, listening and sonic practices of all kinds, all of which are inherently bodily and behavioural pedagogic (paragogic?) ontologies and epistemologies. “Martin…
Read moreThis first follow-up post focuses on the presentation given by Professor James Wisdom on the topic of The context of UK Higher Education 2021 as it was, no pun intended, full of the aforementioned “wisdom”. His first insight about visual feedback based on students’ foreheads was amusing and insightful. The second point about the amount…
Read more“To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered – revelations, surprises.” (Octavio Paz) Encuentro This work is intended as a digital ecology, a designed underlay…
Read moreThis symposium explores our auditory encounter with the urban environment and asks how we might plan for the soundscape of our future cities, homes and dwellings. It asks in what ways can the soundscape and the practice of listening inform and make meaningful the experience of living within urban environments. Do we need to revisit our relationship to the sound of cities, if so what changes should be made? What are the prevailing attitudes to sound? What is the role of the artist and other professionals in considering alternative approaches to listening as well as helping to celebrate, re-imagine and regenerate the spaces, buildings and institutions of the urban soundscape.
Read moreA Film by Dan Linn-Pearl, Marianna Roe & Andi Spowart “Learning to Listen is a documentary film crossing the dividing lines of experimental music and Sound Art. It is a series of accounts from established artists discussing their work in relation to shifting movements in creative thought and process. The sonic sense is explored through…
Read moreTaylor, J. Milo., Rivas, Francisco & Mesa, Miguel Affiliation: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) / Fonoteca Nacional Mexico / Independent. Research Focus: Listening Cultures, Media Archaeology, Sonic Anthropology: Methodologies of Sound in the Humanities La Cantada: The Songs for the Dead in Naolinco town. Abstract When Spanish conquerors arrived on the Mexican Caribbean coast they…
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