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Listening to Kansas City
The reality of our time is that we listen more readily and with greater interest to the mediated treatment of soundscapes [by artists] than to the material in its original form and context.–R. Murray...
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Within a Grain of Sand: Our Sonic Environment and Some of Its Shapers
“It devolves on us now to invent a subject we might call acoustic design, an interdiscipline in which musicians, acousticians, psychologists, sociologists, and others would study the world soundscape...
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Animal Renderings: The Library of Natural Sounds
Today we bring you the latest post in SO!’s spring series, Live from the SHC, which follows the new research from the 2011-2012 Fellows of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, who have gathered in the...
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Sounding Out! Podcast Episode #7: Celebrate World Listening Day with the...
“Press to listen” by SO! Managing Editor Liana Silva To commemorate this year’s World Listening Day, Sounding Out! is hosting a forum on different aspects of listening throughout the month of July....
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Heard Any Good Games Recently?: Listening to the Sportscape
Sound and music play important roles in shaping our experiences of sports. Every sport has its own characteristic sounds and soundscape; some are very silent while others can be dangerously noisy....
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SO! Reads: Isaac Weiner’s Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space,...
Calling devotees to prayer, preaching on the subway, broadcasted pre-recorded sermons from a moving car, organizing drum circles in the park, resounding church bells through the city – expressions of...
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SO! Amplifies: Eric Leonardson and World Listening Day 18 July 2014
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! — On July 18, 2014 all...
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Sounding Out! Podcast #32: The World Listening Update – 2014 Edition
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Learning to Listen Beyond Our Ears: Reflecting Upon World Listening Day
World Listening Day took place last week, and as I understand it, it is all about not taking sound for granted – an admirable goal indeed! But it is worth taking a moment to consider what sorts of...
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Sounding Our Utopia: An Interview With Mileece
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 this past year...
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Unsettling the World Soundscape Project: Soundscapes of Canada and the...
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 studies. The...
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Unsettling the World Soundscape Project: The Bell Tower of False Creek,...
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...
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Make a Noise Joyful: Cirm in the Old English Exodus
When the narrator of the Old English poem Exodus declares “Gehyre se ðe wille” (Let him hear who will), what sounds is he asking us to attend to? [Note: Text from Peter Lucas’s edition, 7b. All...
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(Dis)orienting the Bell: Aural Assault from A Game of Thrones to Richard Coer...
series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher Roman Hear YE! Below is the introduction to the latest installment of Medieval Sound, Aural Ecology, by series co-editors Dorothy Kim and Christopher...
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The Idea (of an Idea) of North (Of the North): Glenn Gould’s Piece at 50
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 become the...
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A Tradition of Free and Odious Utterance: Free Speech & Sacred Noise in Steve...
**This post is co-authored by Gabriel Solomon Mindel and Alexander J. Ullman On February 2, 2017, thousands of protesters took to the University of California Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza to protest and...
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