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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Sound Studies"”.
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… for this thesis draws on a combination of sound studies, which emphasizes the overlooked role of raw vocal expressions like wailing, crying and moaning found in lament practice as well as ritual studies, orality/literacy, post-materiality, collective identity and memory studies. The …
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Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies
… and will contribute to the field of sound studies by arguing, and defining a methodology, for listening sonospherically (Oliveros, 2011). Through six original artistic projects researching the presence of media infrastructures, the thesis will argue for the ‘sonospheric investigation’ …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
… of construction, systems theory, utopianism, sound studies, multiplicity, animal communication, pseudo-science, correlationism, theories of body, sound art, learning, everythingism, form, musicology, philosophy, poetry, philosophy of science These texts can also be understood in relation to …
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The Sound System of the State: Sonic Strategies for Political Critique at the Borders of Palestine-Israel
… in Palestine-Israel by listening to their sound. While stagnating peace negotiations have been dominated by visual sensibility, it is argued that considering sonic sensibility could contribute to the re-examination of current border regimes. Sound and listening are examined as both the …
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Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… War aesthetics, in favour of attention to its sounds. I also set out to discover whether lyric poetry, now held to be an essentially sounded medium, can be understood as part of the boom in sound technologies that textured the nineteenth century. These two aims can be drawn together into one …
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A PORTFOLIO OF THREE COMPOSITIONS AND TWO ESSAYS
… Players, and the Cornell Council for the Arts. Sound is a concrete embodiment of tactile experience. Following this belief, I guide this work to the essence of vibration. Buddhist ideas of vibrational equality, and a sonic ontology influence this approach. I use feedback to resonate the bodies …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… is a foundational figure to the field of Sound Studies, and that her practice of Deep Listening reorients listening as a fully embodied experience, predating R. Murray Schafer’s groundbreaking work The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World in 1994.
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… is a foundational figure to the field of Sound Studies, and that her practice of Deep Listening reorients listening as a fully embodied experience, predating R. Murray Schafer’s groundbreaking work The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World in 1994.
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Soundscape and the Experience of Positive Silence
… is positioned within the related fields of Sound Art and Sound Studies with the practice component including soundwalks, sound installation, exhibition and phenomenological enquiry initiated through listenings and reflections. Current research in this area has explored the value of silence …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… of these artists through contemporary television soundtracks, which have preserved the legacy of twentieth century musicians, we can glean moments where a soundtrack of liberal nostalgia begins to form. Drawing on sound studies, gender and race theory, and postmodern media critique, “Audiovisual …
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Acupuncture for Sleep Disturbances in Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
… limited number of well designed methodologically sound studies to investigate CAM therapies. The overall purpose of this study was to conduct a small scale feasibility study to examine whether the use of an auricular acupuncture regimen improves sleep quality for OEF/OIF veterans with PTSD and …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
… Early modern voices thus participate in what sound studies scholars call the soundscape, which I link to current new materialist and ecological theories of network and assemblage. Within this soundscape, I pay special attention to the role of language as a semantic system of meaning. Current …
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THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL POLITICS OF LISTENING TO BLACK CANADA(S)
… the world and can be registered in everyday sound and sonic practices. I employ a range of unsettled listening practices to sonically think and grapple with the dynamics of Black being and Blackness in Canada—particularly how Black people are treated by the Canadian Nation State—given the …
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Speech Labs: Language Experiments, Early Poetry Audio Archives, And The Poetic Record
… valued, and defined during the early period of sound recording. The central claim is that the first poetry audio archives were born in linguistic speech labs, as collaborations between poets and linguists with a mutual interest in lingual experimentation. These unlikely collaborations were …
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Experiential Encounters with Architecture and Sound: The Use of Styli in Urban Field Recording and Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis
This thesis explores the relationship between sound and space in architecture through field recording practices, live performance, sounding artifacts (vinyl), DJ performances, crowdsourcing, community-based projects, mindfulness, and visual art. It provides examples of research practices …
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Site and sound: musical composition and site-specific performance – developing a creative practice through practical methodologies
… the relationships between space, mobility and sound, focussing on mobile communication technologies as well as objects and locations such as bridges and rivers. The central creative research questions developed from this experimental practice and process are as follows: how does one create …
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Partitioned listening: sonic methodology and the archive after 1947
… the production, reception and repetition of sound as vital labour within it. Given the contemporary archival memory boom that Partition is experiencing following decades of “silence”, this approach offers new and timely methodological paradigms for Partition studies, while critically …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
This thesis considers the interconnectedness of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the …
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Silent Light, Luminous Noise: Photophonics, Machines and the Senses
… research takes the basic physical premise that sound can be synthesized using light, explores how this has historically been, and still is achieved, and how it can still be a fertile area for creative, theoretical and critical exploration in sound and the arts. Through the author's own artistic …
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Sonic Perceptual Ecologies: Strategies for sound-based exploration,perception and composition in spaces of transient encounters
… cross-‐disciplinary framework to the field of sound studies. It examines how our inherent capacities as listeners are manifested in transitional urban environments, and the primary role of voice as a vehicle for perception in field recording and soundwalking practices. Using the conceptual …
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