Sound Studies Lab

Tomorrow, Tuesday 23/09, we will begin the fall semester of our Online Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies with a presentation by Thiago Leiros-Costa:

Topic:

Studies of Air and Smoke: A Framework

Presenter:

Thiago Leiros-Costa (Milano/Verona, IT)

Time:

3.15 - 4.30pm CET

More details on the presentation - including the zoom link:

https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/.../studies-of-air.../

As always, you can find announcements for all our colloquium's conversations & presentations right here:

https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/.../sound.../calendar/

See you tomorrow, 3.15pm CET!

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In the second colloquium of this Spring we have the pleasure to hear about and to discuss with Jacek Smolicki his approach to:

Voices as Relations

Presenter: Jacek Smolicki (Uppsala University, SWE)

Abstract:

The emergence of new voice technologies, machine listening techniques, and voice cloning services raises several ethical and political concerns across private and public realms. As voice has historically and cross-culturally been perceived as an expression of the self, deeply situated at the core of being a human being, serious existential challenges arise in this respect too. Where should we search for and locate the self, the beholder of voice, in techno-cultures increasingly populated by computationally generated, disembodied voices?

Rather than seeking the essence of voice as a phenomenon that can be attributed to a single subject, this presentation embarks on a journey to understand voice as inherently a relational event. I suggest that current developments at the intersection of voice and AI do not necessarily jeopardize voice–or at least, they do not only do so–but also remind us that voices are shaped by and embedded within larger, thicker, and temporally extended ecologies.

Therefore, instead of succumbing to the acousmatic aura and eeriness evoked by seemingly disembodied artificial voices, I propose viewing them as components of a larger "acousmatrix": a dense field of relations spanning various subjects, materialities, and histories. Critically inclined artistic practices, as I will argue, can help uncover this intricate mesh of relations while simultaneously pointing toward alternative, more just, and perhaps more hopeful configurations of these dynamics.

Please share:

Voices as Relations Presenter: Jacek Smolicki (Uppsala University, SWE).

From June 16-24, 2025, we are offering a course on "Sound Cities and Sonic Sensibilities" in Trondheim, Norway.

You can apply to participate until February 10, 2025 - and we have an info meeting coming up:

THIS Friday, November 22, at 14:00 CET we will be happy to answer all your questions (and on January 15, 2025 we offer another info meeting).

You can find all the information about this course at the link below:

ERASMUS Course: Sonic Sensibilities – Sound Cities Together with three international scholars and three international universities, we are offering in June 2025 an intensive course, funded by the ERASMUS Mobility program: Participants can learn and practice in two courses …Continue reading

Please join us on Mastodon - more and more sound studies scholars and sound artists can be found there:

Sound Studies (@[email protected]) Attached: 1 image Join us today - at our Zoom-only "Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies": Tuesday, September 24, at 15:15 CEST Our presenter today is: Walter S. Gershon (Rowan University, USA): "Multipolyphonies, Vibrational Affects, and Deep Listening. Conceptualizing Ecologies, Relations, and Knowl...

After our hybrid conference HOW TO STUDY SOUND? last week, we would like to invite all of you who are interested to join our online-only "Colloquium Sound & Sensory Studies" on Zoom that we have every two weeks. It is our collective "thinking workshop".

This coming Tuesday, September 24, at 15:15 CEST, we welcome Walter S. Gershon (Rowan University, USA), who will present his work under this title:

"Multipolyphonies, Vibrational Affects, and Deep Listening.

Conceptualizing Ecologies, Relations, and Knowledge inwiththrough the Sonic."
https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/sound-studies-lab/calendar/2024/multipolyphonies-vibrational-affects-and-deep-listening/

The colloquium is strictly limited to 75 minutes.

If you cannot attend this time, please see if one of our future sessions this semester might be more convenient for you:

https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/sound-studies-lab/calendar/

Please feel free to share this with anyone you think might be interested!

Our conference is at an end. We took off from the cacophony of the Somme trenches in the audible past, touched down to gauge the situation of seismic contemporary publishing strategies, only to bounce off once more into a riot of possible sonic futures!

Its been a thrill!

To all presenters, contributors, participants, technicians, coffee brewers, traveling agencies, student assistents, organizers and catering team:

!! THANK YOU !!

So! As we prepare to engage in the last plenary discussion on this wonderful 2nd day of our conference 'HOW TO STUDY SOUND?', we again would like to thank everybody involved in making this happen.

Today has been filled with truly inspiring talks and valuable discussions here in Copenhagen and online across the interwebbed globe

Join again tomorrow for our final day, where we together shall stare into the unkown space of future possibilities & engagements in our beloved field sound studies.

All the best,

Sound Studies Lab