Sound studies

Sound Studies refers to the interdisciplinary research field of cultural-scientific sound research.

research

In Sound Studies, sound is examined using the methods of Science and Technology Studies (STS), ethnography , popular music studies and cultural history (especially historical anthropology ). Her objects come from everyday culture and pop culture , the history of science and technology, as well as the history of sound art .

The Master's degree in Sound Studies has existed at the Universität der Künste Berlin since 2006, offering four semesters training in working with sound and dealing with modern auditory culture. Teaching takes place there in the seven sub-areas of theory and history of auditory culture, hearing skills, experimental sound design, auditory media design, auditory design, auditory architecture and auditory culture: research. In the 2017/18 winter semester, the course was fundamentally reformed and renamed Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (Master of Arts) .

A DFG research project called Sound Studies Lab is researching the methodological foundations of this interdisciplinary research field in research projects, publications and symposia at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

literature

• Holger Schulze (2008, Ed.): Sound Studies: Traditions - Methods - Desiderata. An introduction. Bielefeld: transcript
• Trevor Pinch / Karin Bijsterveld (2011, Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. New York: Oxford University Press
• Sound Studies Positions - Texts on Current Music, Vol. 24 (2011), H. 86.
• Jonathan Sterne (2012, Ed.): The Sound Studies Reader. London: Routledge.
• Situation und Klang Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Vol. 34 (2012), H. 1–2.
• Jens Gerrit Papenburg / Holger Schulze (2016, Eds.): Sound as Popular Culture. A Research Companion. Cambridge / Mass. The MIT Press.

Scientific journals and book series

• Interference The National College of Art and Design Dublin / Ireland
• Journal of Sonic Studies Leiden Nijmwegen / Netherlands
• SoundEffects Århus Universiteit / Denmark
• Sound Studies Bloomsbury Publishers London / UK
• Sound Studies transcript Verlag / Bielefeld

Scientific networks

• AG Auditory Culture and Sound Studies of the Society for Media Studies
• Sound as Art — Sound in History, Sound as Culture — Sound in Theory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Sound in Media Culture: Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound
• Nordic Research Network for Sound Studies University of Southern Denmark
• Changing hearing knowledge Freie Universität Berlin

Web links

• European Sound Studies Association ESSA
• Exhibition video on art-in-berlin
• The master's degree in Sound Studies at the UdK Berlin
• DFG research project Sound Studies Lab at HU Berlin
• Functional Sounds: Auditory Culture & Sound Concepts in Everyday Life. First International ESSA Conference

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (Master of Arts) at the UdK Berlin