Sound Studies

Applications are invited for a 3-year funded doctoral studentship offered to start in October 2023. The successful applicant will work on a collaborative project led by Dr Peter McMurray at the Faculty of Music (Cambridge).

The project offers the opportunity to conduct PhD research into histories of sound and audiovisual media in the late Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean (1789-1922), focusing on how sonic practices and their mediations through technical systems produced important new cultural shifts.

Applications are invited for a 3-year funded doctoral studentship offered to start in October 2023. The successful applicant will work on a collaborative project led by Dr Peter McMurray at the Faculty of Music (Cambridge).

The project offers the opportunity to conduct PhD research into histories of sound and audiovisual media in the late Ottoman Empire and eastern Mediterranean (1789-1922), focusing on how sonic practices and their mediations through technical systems produced important new cultural shifts.

Die neue Ausgabe der Weimarer Beiträge – 68 (2022), Heft 4 – ist erschienen:
 

In his influential study of Romanticism, M. H. Abrams famously claimed that radical aesthetic novelties “frequently turn out to be migrant ideas which, in their native intellectual habitat, were commonplaces.” This panel seeks to embrace such migrancy to go beyond the confines of European culture and periodization and even question the assumptions about originality, propriety, legitimacy, and imitation embedded in Abrams and later interpreters of Romanticism. 

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio

The radio and audio media area provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and artists of what Michelle Hilmes (2013) calls soundwork: “the entire complex of sound-based media that enters our experience through a variety of technologies and forms.” Its forms include, but are not limited to, journalism, narrative nonfiction, audio and radio drama, sports, podcasts, as well as films and TV adapted from radio or podcasts.  

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, PCA/ACA Annual Conference

April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio

The radio and audio media area provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and artists of what Michelle Hilmes (2013) calls soundwork:“the entire complex of sound-based media that enters our experience through a variety of technologies and forms.” Its forms include, but are not limited to, journalism, narrative nonfiction, audio and radio drama, sports, podcasts, as well as films and TV adapted from radio or podcasts.  

Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce the open access publication of volume 2, issue 1 (Spring 2022) of our online journal Sound Stage Screen. The new issue features articles on musical holograms, neo-realist films soundscape, silent movies performance practice, and a reflection on music criticism in the digital era. 

CFP Radio and Audio Media Area, PCA/ACA Annual Conference, April 5-8, 2023, San Antonio

The radio and audio media area provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and artists of what Michelle Hilmes (2013) calls soundwork: “the entire complex of sound-based media that enters our experience through a variety of technologies and forms.” Its forms include, but are not limited to, journalism, narrative nonfiction, audio and radio drama, sports, podcasts, as well as films and TV adapted from radio or podcasts.  

Dear colleagues,

we are pleased to announce the open access publication of volume 2, issue 1 (Spring 2022) of our online journal Sound Stage Screen. The new issue features articles on musical holograms, neo-realist films soundscape, silent movies performance practice, and a reflection on music criticism in the digital era. 

ERC Project Poetry in the Digital Age

Principle Investigator: Prof. Dr. Claudia Benthien