The Sonic Perspectives workshop series aims to bring together students and scholars interested in sound to the emerging field of sound studies to discuss the possibilities and challenges presented by sound-based work.

The Sonic Perspectives workshop series aims to bring together students and scholars interested in sound to the emerging field of sound studies to discuss the possibilities and challenges presented by sound-based work.

The Sonic Perspectives workshop series aims to bring together students and scholars interested in sound to the emerging field of sound studies to discuss the possibilities and challenges presented by sound-based work.

Here are some photos from Sound Studies Workshop 2, featuring our special guest Neo Muyanga!

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 […]