#soundstudies — Public Fediverse posts

"Stacey Copeland’s Lavender Sounds explores lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork" 💜 📻

This book will be of interest to some folks here:
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Lavender-Sounds3

#Books #Bookstodon #SoundStudies #radio #broadcasting #MediaStudies #Commodon #Histodons

This goes out to paid subscribers to the This Week in Sound email newsletter tomorrow, Friday, August 21, 2026. The short version of Throughline is that This Week in Sound is about the role of sound in culture, and by highlighting the mutual context of the tracks in a given playlist, cultural currents are surfaced. More at https://thisweekinsound.disquiet.com. #playlist #trumpet #mixtape #soundstudies

#CFP

BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference 2027

Call for papers, lecture-recitals, themed panels, posters, and compositions from postgraduate researchers across musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music, sound studies, performance, composition, and related fields.

📍 Oxford, UK
📅 06–08/01/2027

Deadline: 04/09/2026

https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/2027-bfe-rma-conference

#Musicology #Ethnomusicology #SoundStudies #PopularMusic #PhD

Heute um 16 Uhr: Vortrag "Kulturen der Heimcomputermusik" von Niayesh Ebrahimi und Hanna Hammerich in der Reihe "Hack & Play", online und onsite am @ZPD. Infos: https://
hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de
#retrocomputing #musicology #homecomputer #chiptune #soundstudies #blips #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026

Next semester I'll teach the block seminar "#Chiptunes - Klangerzeugung und Musikproduktion mit dem #Commodore64" at the department for #MediaStudies at University Bonn.

#SoundStudies #ComputerArchaeology #RetroComputing

#CFP

Global Hip Hop Studies special issue: “Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure”

Seeking work on #HipHop, infrastructure, analogue/digital practices, archives, energy humanities, diasporic sound systems, and technological precarity across the Global South.

Deadline: 01/08/2026

https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers

#HipHopStudies #SoundStudies #DigitalHumanities #DiasporaStudies #PopularMusic

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

#CFP

Global Music Production in Times of Longevity

📍 Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
📅 10–12 November 2026

Interdisciplinary seminar on music, aging, and demographic change, addressing production, markets, technologies, aesthetics, and intergenerational knowledge transmission.

Deadline: 15/06/2026

https://www.cini.it/en/cini_news/global-music-production-in-times-of-longevity-aesthetics-markets-technologies-new-professional-competences-and-transmission-of-knowledge/

#Ethnomusicology #MusicStudies #AgingStudies #SoundStudies

#CFP
Music in the (Sub-)Arctic

📍 Oxford
📅 7–8 September 2026

Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, climate, Indigenous expression, and geopolitics in Arctic and sub-Arctic contexts.

Deadline: 15/05/2026

https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-09-07-music-in-the-sub-arctic

#Ethnomusicology
#SoundStudies #ArcticStudies #IndigenousStudies

#CFP

Musical Commemorations/Contestations

Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.

Deadline: 01/05/2026

https://www.inetmd.pt/en/diffusion/cfp-musical-commemorations-contestations-in-postcolonial-contexts-negotiating-memory-identity-and-power/

#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies

Today's blog post: Pandemic music was not always about remembrance. Sometimes it was about distraction: parody songs, TikTok dances, sea shanties, Boccaccio, and the long, liminal hours in the shade of crisis. Plus a Kermit the Frog reference.

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#PandemicMusic #Musicology #CulturalMemory #SoundStudies #blog #research #distraction #CulturalAmnesia #Boccaccio #TikTok #parody

#CFP

7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS² 2026)

📍 Cannes, France
📅 28–30 October 2026

Focus on networked audio, IoT, MIR, immersive sound, AI, and Internet of Musical Things. Papers, demos, performances & installations welcome.

Deadline: 30/06/2026

https://internetofsounds2026.ieee-internetofsounds.org/

#InternetOfSounds #MusicTech #MIR #SoundStudies #ComputationalMusicProcessing #ComputationalMusicology

#CFP

Editors Forum: Ethnomusicology, Migration, and Anti-Migrant Politics
Ethnomusicology Forum

Focuses on #Migration, #Ethnomusicology, and anti-migrant politics, exploring musical life, displacement, borders, and the politics of sound and culture.

Deadline: 08/05/2026

https://bfe.org.uk/news/ef-journal-editors-forum-call-papers

#MigrationStudies #MusicStudies #SoundStudies #Musicology

#CFP

Sounding Dutch Coloniality

Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, and silence in Dutch colonial and postcolonial contexts. Contributions may address identity, memory, media, technology, and decolonial approaches across disciplines and formats.

📍 Amsterdam
📅 29–31 October 2026

Papers, panels, workshops, and performances welcome.

Deadline: 22/05/2026

https://improdeco.sites.uu.nl/2026/03/17/conference-sounding-dutch-coloniality/

#CFP #Musicology #Ethnomusicology #SoundStudies #PostcolonialStudies

#CFP

‘A Breeze in God’: The Spirituality of Music and Song

International conference exploring connections between music, spirituality, religion, and sonic experience across disciplines. Contributions may include papers, performances, and creative formats.

📍 Naples
📅 10–11 September 2026

Deadline: 30/04/2026

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/%E2%80%98a-breeze-in-god%E2%80%99-the-spirituality-of-music-and-song

#Ethnomusicology #Musicology #Spirituality #SacredMusic #SoundStudies

#AcademicJob | #PostDoc

Postdoctoral Researcher – Sleeping Soundly Project

📍KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

2-year postdoc developing sound-based, personalised and adaptive sleep interventions. Research focuses on interactive sonic prototypes supporting sleep onset, the sleep period, and awakening.

Deadline: 15/03/2026

https://www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/904526?l=en

#SoundStudies #MusicTechnology #SleepResearch #SonicInteraction

*Deadline extended to May 1st*

#CFP

41st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM)

Themes include ethnomusicological challenges, music and politics, and broader topics in music, sound, and dance research. Individual papers, panels, audiovisual sessions, and roundtables welcome.

📍 Palanga, Lithuania
📅 17–22/09/2026

Deadline: 01/05/2026

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=41stesem

#Ethnomusicology #ESEM #MusicResearch #SoundStudies

@toroe and others are talking about #MusicalInstruments and their cultural techniques. Programmable Sound Generators (#SoundChips) are a topic to ... in this (German) podcast:

https://www.melusinapress.lu/projects/1981-5722/resource/1981-5722-tsoc-a

#SoundStudies #ChipTunes #RetroComputing

#CFP

Sonic Efficacy in Global South Asia

Workshop exploring efficacious sound practices in Southern Asia, with a focus on mantras, sonic soteriology, embodiment, healing, ritual, and place-making. Welcomes immersive ethnography, sound studies, sensory anthropology, historical methods, and multimodal formats (incl. audio papers).

📍 National University of Singapore
📅 2026 (in person)

Deadline: 01/03/2026

https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/sonic-efficacy/

#SoundStudies #Ethnomusicology #SensoryAnthropology #SouthAsia

the idea that sound, too, can be divided into the traced and the untraced. perhaps the real disturbance is not inaudibility, but untraceability.

#SoundStudies
#AcousticEcology
#SonicTheory
#CriticalTheory
#Philosophy
#MediaTheory
#Anthropology
#Listening

#SummerSchool

Music from Nature

📍 Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
📅 1–5 June 2026

Five-day seminar on listening to, understanding, and working creatively with sounds of the natural environment. Combines field listening, theory, studio work, and an informal public performance. Open to students at all levels.

Deadline: 15/03/2026

https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-674.html

#SoundStudies #EnvironmentalHumanities #Ethnomusicology

New instance, new #introduction:

I'm an Asst Prof in Communication, Media, and Arts at Seton Hall University, where I teach a combo of media studies and sound production courses.

Currently at work on a dissertation-to-book project on entwined histories of radio automation and radio art; the dissertation, "Unmaking a Medium," is at https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/vm40xz58c

Some other stuff:

Article with Jonathan Sterne about Eurorack https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/idx/j/jcms/18261332.0063.518/--when-a-format-almost-becomes-an-instrument-eurorack?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Radio Deprogramming, a workshop through Wave Farm
https://deprogramming.radio/

25 Hz, a radio noise-drama about automation https://archive.org/details/stuhl-andy-25-hz-2022-radia

#SoundStudies #MediaHistory #STS #RadioArt

#CFP

ICMC 2026 [= International Computer Music Conference] – Innovation, Translation, Participation

📍 Hamburg
📅 10–16 May 2026

Submissions invited in computer/electronic music and multimedia, including articles, works, installations and workshops. Topics span #AI / #ML, #MIR, #XR, #notation, #haptics, #health & #MusicTech, #ArtisticResearch and more.

Deadline: 22/12/2025

https://ligeti-zentrum.de/icmc-2026/

#ICMC2026 #SoundStudies #Musicology #computationalmusicology #computationalmusicProcessing

#CFP

Rock in South America: Argentina, Chile, and Peru

Exploring South American rock’s local expressions, political entanglements, and transnational dialogues. Topics: #Identity, #Archives, #Performance, #Production, #DecolonialTheory & more.

Deadline: 30/04/2025

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/rock-south-america/

#MusicStudies #Rock #SoundStudies #PopularMusic #Ethnomusicology #Musicology

#CFP
ANIMUSIC 2025 – 12th Scientific & Artistic Meeting

📍 Madeira
🗓️ 17–23 July 2025

Exploring sound, music, instruments & art from interdisciplinary perspectives. Submit proposals in diverse formats: papers, lecture-recitals, panels, posters & more.

📅 Submission deadline: 28/02/2025

https://congressorganimusic.wixsite.com/animusic-cong2025

#MusicStudies #SoundStudies #Ethnomusicology #Musicology #MusicScinence #ArtisticResearch

#AcademicJob

Assistant Professor in Popular Music, Sound and Media Cultures (1.0 FTE)

@ University of Groningen (Netherlands)

"Candidates should have a demonstrable record of excellence in teaching, experience in researching popular music, and exhibit knowledge of a range of analytical perspectives including music/sound and intermediality, and critical theory."

Deadline: 03/03/2024

https://www.researchgate.net/job/1006162_Assistant_Professor_in_Popular_Music_Sound_and_Media_Cultures_10_FTE

CC @academicjobs

#MusicStudies #Musicology #PopularMusicStudies #soundstudies

* Deadline Extended *

#CFP

#ESEM – European Seminar in #Ethnomusicology

#Zagreb, 19—25 September 2024

This year's themes include:

* Excluded Musics
* Sounds of Confinement and Isolation

Deadline (extended): 15/04/2024

https://esemzagreb2024.wordpress.com/

Abstract submission form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsnAeRbT_UWI3LZfG6ohONtkNUmkHSSJoq5B1s6uiBbtZnUA/viewform

#MusicStudies #Musicology #SoundStudies

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus

Not sure what goes on here at the Museum of Portable Sound? Take two minutes to watch this video & find out what we’re all about!

We're an actual museum, just not like any you've ever visited before...and now we also conduct visits online!

Got questions? Ask away :)

#museum #museums #soundstudies #museumstudies #curation #listening #fieldrecording #phonography #video #aboutus #contactus #visitus