Sonic skills in cultural contexts: theories, practices and materialities of listening

Bruyninckx, Joeri; Supper, Alexandra

doi:10.1080/20551940.2016.1214444

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“…Our Special Issue profits from several studies that have addressed the role of historical practices and traditions of knowledge in the objectification of sound (Jackson 2006;Bijsterveld 2008;Kursell 2008). More specific work has also been done on the historical formation of "hearing cultures" or "sonic skills" around certain sound objects (Thompson 2002;Erlmann 2004;Abbate 2016;Bruyninckx and Supper 2016;Davies and Lockhart 2017). Most of this scholarship has favoured the modern period, however, whereas our key contribution is to situate sonic things within longer processes of the triadic formation of concrete sounds, instrumental objectification, and knowledge.…”

Section: Traces Of the Pastmentioning

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Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux

Tkaczyk

Miesen

2020

Sound Studies

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This Introduction presents the key concerns of "Sonic Things: knowledge formation in flux," a Special Issue of Sound Studies. Building on recent scholarship in sound studies, history of science, and thing studies, we use the term "sonic things" to describe sounds that stand in for other-elusive, inaudible, or ideal-sounds. Emerging from long processes of multidisciplinary knowledge production, sonic things equally have a quality in and of themselves. The Special Issue's contributions deal with the histories of sonic things that mediate between physical and metaphysical realms (Leendert van der Miesen, John Durham Peters); the sounds of musical instruments used to reach out to other times or places (Fanny Gribenski, Carmel Raz); and sonic things that moved back and forth between domestic spaces and sites of scientific inquiry (Viktoria Tkaczyk, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Flora Dennis). To trace these diverse trajectories, the contributors employ and re-evaluate a plethora of methods, from intellectual history and the history of reception and misconception, to discourse analysis, to the reconstruction of historical instruments and experiments. They speak to readers in a wide range of research fields, offering new perspectives on existing debates and new views on an ample body of historical sources.

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Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux

Tkaczyk

Miesen

2020

Sound Studies

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Ensembles of Sonic Skills: Conclusions

Bijsterveld

2018

Sonic Skills

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Listening to the Archive: Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences

Birdsall¹,

Tkaczyk²

2019

Technology and Culture

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For it will retain a perfect mechanical memory of many things which we may forget.-Thomas Edison 1On 22 August 1940, the German astronomer Harald von Klüber used a gramophone to record a brief speech about universal time. In this wartime recording, von Klüber discussed the relativity of time and the need for a global time standard. Temporal convergence, he proclaimed, would facili-tate punctual communication, travel, and transportation-three aspects crucial to Germany's conduct of World War II but also relevant for a range of different research disciplines that were concerned with temporal accu-racy. As von Klüber referred to the newest technologies for measuring and synchronizing time with elaborate quartz clocks and wireless communica-tion, he was also performing what he understood by standardized time, through the medium of sound recording: in order to reproduce his meas-ured, persuasive voice, the gramophone disc needed to be played back at an exact, predefined rotation speed. 2Carolyn Birdsall is associate professor of media studies at the University of Amsterdam. She leads the project "Mapping Transnational Conflict Heritage" (supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research). Viktoria Tkaczyk leads the Research Group "Epistemes of Modern Acoustics" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and is professor of media studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Both Special Issue editors thank Suzanne Moon for her assistance and editorial guidance. They would also like to especially thank Kate Sturge for her careful language editorial work on the papers, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions. The workshop from which this volume grew was financially supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity. Britta Lange and Jochen Hennig coorganized that workshop and supported it with their outstanding expertise on Berlin archives.

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Sonic skills in cultural contexts: theories, practices and materialities of listening

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Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux

Sonic things: knowledge formation in flux

Ensembles of Sonic Skills: Conclusions

Listening to the Archive: Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences

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