Category: research
National Trust Sound Project: Chirk Castle Visit: Staff Listening Workshop
Workshop: Solar Sound Bots
Collaborative Performance: Tate Modern (with Alice Fox / Rockets Group)
Rockets We are pleased to invite you to join the Rocket Artists and contributors to the celebration launch of the book ‘Inclusive Arts Practice and Research: A Critical Manifesto’ by Dr Alice Fox and Dr Hannah MacPherson. The event is free and will take place on Monday 1 June 2015 in the East Room (6th floor) Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and…
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“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 moreUniversity of Brighton presents “Sound & the Urban Environment”
This 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 moreFunctional Sounds: Auditory Culture And Sound Concepts In Everyday Life: Paper Submission
Taylor, 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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