Conference: The Sound of Sound Studies
From July 8 to 10, the 2021 annual conference of the AG Auditive Medienkulturen & Sound Studies in the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft will take place in Lüneburg for the second time.
Call for Papers: The Sound of Sound Studies
From the 4th to the 6th of March 2021, ((audio)) will host the annual conference of the AG Auditive Kultur & Sound Studies of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft.
Aesthetics, Algorithms, Sound. Music Programming with Sonic Pi
Sonic Pi is an open source programming tool for creating music. Sonic Pi was developed in 2013 by Sam Aaron at the University of Cambridge – originally to teach concepts of programming in schools. The focus is on the creative exploration of music – concepts of programming are taught on the side.
Computer as Media
Overview seminar on the fundamental aspects of the transformation of media to digital media, with special emphasis on the media sectors that have been identified in the practical seminars.
Aesthetic Practices of the Soundscape in Auditive Culture
The seminar will introduce the concept of artistic soundscapes from both aesthetic and technical sides. It will focus on the musical application of soundscape, namely in composition, sound art and multimedia performance. The study of soundscape in other fields like ecology, ethnomusicology, music therapy and politics will be discussed as well.
Instrumentalities
That a violin or a flute is a musical instrument seems unquestionable. We have used these objects for generations to produce sounds. But what about objects, environments and processes that were not primarily musically motivated and are now used quite naturally for making music and for auditory creation?
Analog Hardware Techniques
While software has democratized professional music production, (analog) hardware instruments, technologies and related creative practices continue to shape style and sound.
›Beautiful music?‹
In the context of cultural studies, we know beauty as a relocatable term that seems to depend entirely on the individual, social and historical location of the viewer.
Beating Time. Discrete time in history and aesthetics of the rhythm-machine
One – Two – Three – Four. To beat time means to count and discretise the time that just now flowed so steadily.
The Cultural Significance of Listening
In this seminar we want to listen (and read) together – and examine our approaches to listening in terms of their manifold cultural entanglements.
Contemporary Chinese media: media system, culture and transformation
Friday, 10:15-12:00 | hybrid
Through studying a range of media formats concerning media policies and media production, media convergence and media consumption, the course provides an overview of the contemporary media in China, examines the development and transformation of media and communication practices in both the contemporary Chinese and global context.
CDC Questions
by Magdalena Lanman Niese
“We believe that we are able to totally control the sound and structure of music with the help of digital technology and its possibilities. One may think we can control musical structures (…). But this control is not manageable. The musical artefact which is created goes beyond the digital because it is not constricted (…).”