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.
Guest Lecture Series: Composers on Soundscape Composition
In January, a series of guest lectures focused on the aesthetics and composition of artistic soundscapes. The four lectures were given by international artists*. Among them: Fredrik Mathias Josefson (new media artist), Zoe Yi-Cheng Lin (AI & VR music), Luong Hue Trinh (experimental electroacoustic music) and Ángela Hoyos Gómez (new media artist).
Workshop: A life in Samples
On 25.09. the workshop ‘A life in Samples’ took place as the final event of the seminar ‘Digital Sampling Techniques’. The guest was the New York based artist Tony Rainwater (Anthony Abbadessa), who exclusively presented his unique and creative sample workflow. The event was accompanied by a discussion on the question of whether and to what extent there are limits to the technique of sampling.
Instrumentality meets Materiality
Joint workshop of the research group “Materiality of Musical Instruments”, Deutsches Museum Munich and the department “((audio)) Aesthetic Strategies” at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM), Leuphana University Lüneburg.