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Today’s Sound Studies workshop, “Sound, situated,” has been postponed due to weather conditions– so we thought we’d offer a reflection from one of our previous workshop participants, Sinan Goknur. Here he reflects on the role of listening in his experimental audiovisual composition, “Shared Lines” (below).   The inspiration behind Shared Lines was the 2013 Gezi uprising in Turkey […]

The Audiovisualities Lab continues to explore diverse approaches to working with/in sound with our vibrant sound studies workshop series.   On November 13, 2014, the Lab gathered for workshop #2, Listening Across Media. In lieu of a writing workshop, this listening workshop sought to create a space for sound scholars and artists to share a sound-based project that has been […]

The questions of, “What is sound studies?” is a chimera. Answers to this seemingly unassuming question bring up a series of answers in the negative. For example: Sound studies is not a thing or a discipline. It is not a singular subject of study and it is not reducible to an easily definable set of […]

A current of anxiety about exclusion ran below the surface of our first conversation on sound studies: the exclusion of local voices in a changing rural economy, the exclusion of certain forms of scholarship from academic discourses, the exclusion of unique sonic markers in favor of a unified soundscape. In our effort to consider sound […]

* Click here to view all Sonic Perspectives events and blog posts   On October 16, 2014, the Audiovisualities Lab gathered graduate and undergraduate students for the first of five sound studies workshops, Sonic Perspectives. This workshop series aims to bring together students and scholars interested in sound to the emerging field of sound studies to discuss […]