#soundstudies — Public Fediverse posts

(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

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

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

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

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
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
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
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
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

#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

#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

#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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

#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

#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

#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

hello mastodon —
sound, listening and performance as ways of thinking with territory.
non-anthropocentric perspectives, infrastructures, measurement, and resistant environments.
psychogeography, cultural studies, and the arts as ways of attending — including alternative mappings and cartographies.
photography as field note. sound as method.
slow conversations welcome.

#SoundStudies #SoundArt #Listening
#CriticalGeography #Psychogeography
#CulturalStudies #MoreThanHuman #cart
#STS #ArtResearch

hello mastodon —
sound, listening and performance as ways of thinking with territory.
non-anthropocentric perspectives, infrastructures, measurement, and resistant environments.
psychogeography, cultural studies, and the arts as ways of attending — including alternative mappings and cartographies.
photography as field note. sound as method.
slow conversations welcome.

#SoundStudies #SoundArt #Listening
#CriticalGeography #Psychogeography
#CulturalStudies #MoreThanHuman #cart
#STS #ArtResearch

hello mastodon —
sound, listening and performance as ways of thinking with territory.
non-anthropocentric perspectives, infrastructures, measurement, and resistant environments.
psychogeography, cultural studies, and the arts as ways of attending — including alternative mappings and cartographies.
photography as field note. sound as method.
slow conversations welcome.

#SoundStudies #SoundArt #Listening
#CriticalGeography #Psychogeography
#CulturalStudies #MoreThanHuman #cart
#STS #ArtResearch