On November 18th, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts hosted the second lecture in the ongoing Intonarumori series, running in collaboration with Harvard’s Hearing Modernity seminar. This time around, we were joined by Christopher DeLaurenti – described on his website as a “sound artist, improvisor, and phonographer” currently based in Virginia. Christopher DeLaurenti’s work spans… Read more »

  Thank you to all who have made the first half of our Sawyer Seminar so fascinating! For those of you who weren’t able to attend any of the sessions this fall, the audio is now posted for all four dates.  The next convening is in February. We’ll have the papers up online as the… Read more »

Joseph Auner, Tufts University Response to Trevor Pinch and Flagg Miller, Hearing Modernity (November 25, 2013) In these two exciting and stimulating papers Trevor Pinch and Flagg Miller explore how the experience of sounds and our sonic environments are shaped by the stubborn materiality of specific technologies as nodes in the complex socio-technical networks we… Read more »

Monday, November 25, 2013 4:15-6:00pm, Holden Chapel, Harvard University Flagg Miller: Bin Laden’s Genie and His Bottle:  On Authority and Revelation Through Audiotapes Trevor Pinch: In the Moog: Hearing and Making Early Synthesizer Sounds We are pleased to welcome Flagg Miller and Trevor Pinch to campus for Session 4: Mediated Technologies, on Monday, November 25,… Read more »

Monday, November 18, 2013 12:30-2:00 pm, Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Christopher DeLaurenti, “Protest and Field Recordings” 4:15-6:00pm, Holden Chapel, Harvard University Suzanne Cusick, “Re-soundings: hearing worlds from the global war on terror” Thomas Y. Levin, “Music, Torture and the Aesthetic Politics of the Playlist” We are pleased to welcome Suzanne Cusick… Read more »

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin), in cooperation with “Hearing Modernity,” is proud to present: Resonances: Music, Affect, and the City Thursday, November 7 – Friday, November 8, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Ingrid Monson (Harvard University) Special sound/music Get-Together: Thursday, 9 pm at Shift event space with experimental audiovisual works (9-11 pm) and DJ… Read more »

by Olivia Lucas “Functional Sounds,” the first ever ESSA conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, amply demonstrated the breadth of current sound studies research and connected scholars across many disciplines. As someone from a musicological background, it was very exciting to be at a conference where papers on music per se were in… Read more »

In addition to Hearing Modernity, there are several other exciting series of a similar nature taking place this year. One of those is the Listening Workshop at Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre, organized by Rachel Beckles Willson. Here is some information on that series. -PM   The Listening Workshop, 2013-14 Humanities and Arts Research Centre… Read more »

The papers that have been presented in this session affirm that whatever centers and peripheries may need de-centering out in the world, there is no center to the field of sound studies, and there is no periphery.   In different ways, these papers exemplify an idea mentioned in the last seminar that sound studies need not… Read more »

As the first speaker in the Intonarumori series, hosted by SMFA in affiliation with Hearing Modernity, Betsey Biggs surely started off the program on suitable ground. Toward the beginning of her lecture, she described sound as waking us to the hear and now – reminding us of the present. On the other hand, though, she… Read more »