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Sound souvenirs
In recent decades, the importance of sound for remembering the past and for creating a sense of belonging has been increasingly acknowledged. We keep \"sound souvenirs\" such as cassette tapes and long play albums in our attics because we want to be able to recreate the music and everyday sounds we once cherished. Artists and ordinary listeners deploy the newest digital audio technologies to recycle past sounds into present tunes. Sound and memory are inextricably intertwined, not just through the commercially exploited nostalgia on oldies radio stations, but through the exchange of valued songs by means of pristine recordings and cultural practices such as collecting, archiving and listing. This book explores several types of cultural practices involving the remembrance and restoration of past sounds. At the same time, it theorizes the cultural meaning of collecting, recycling, reciting, and remembering sound and music.
Herinneringen halen we niet alleen op aan de hand van beelden, maar ook met behulp van geluid. We koesteren onze versleten bandrecorderspoelen, cassettebandjes en langspeelplaten - onze \"sound souvenirs\" - om de muziek van vroeger nog eens te horen. Radioprogramma's als de Top2000 houden oude nummers eindeloos in de lucht. In geluidsarchieven bewaren we de redes van beroemde politici. In de auto nemen we voortdurend onze persoonlijke muziekbestanden met ons mee. En een enkele keer worden we herinnerd aan geluiden die we liever vergeten, zoals die van bombardementen. Dit boek verkent de verschillende culturele praktijken waarin we het geluid van het verleden gewenst en ongewenst terughalen en probeert de culturele betekenis van het verzamelen, citeren en herinneren van geluid en muziek te begrijpen. Met bijdragen van Ruth Benschop, Carolyn Birdsall, Hans-Joachim Braun, Michael Bull, Karin Bijsterveld & Annelies Jacobs, José van Dijck, Andreas Fickers, Bas Jansen, Trevor Pinch & David Reinecke, Jonathan Sterne, Tim Taylor en Heike Weber.
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A book of noises : notes on the auraculous
Sound shapes our world in invisible but significant ways, and here Caspar Henderson brings his characteristic curiosity, knowledge and sense of wonder to the subject to take us on an exhilarating journey through the heard universe. 'A Little Book of Noises' gathers together sounds from the cosmos, the natural world, the human world, and the invented world, as well as containing quiet pockets of silence. From the vast sound of sand in the desert to the tuneful warble of a songbird, to the meditative resonance of a temple bell and the improvisational melodies of jazz, this is a celebration of all things auricular.
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The MELOS discographic documentation platform: The Vassilis Tsitsanis Collection of Recordings
This article explores the MELOS project, a collaborative initiative dedicated to the documentation and digital management of historical Greek music recordings. Developed as part of the \"Research-Create-Innovate\" program, the project integrates collections from multiple institutions into a unified, open-source platform using the ReasonableGraph system. The study focuses on the Vassilis Tsitsanis Collection, highlighting the complexities of cataloguing and analyzing Greek urban folk-popular music. By structuring metadata based on a hierarchical ontology and employing interdisciplinary methodologies, the platform enhances access to discographic material while addressing longstanding gaps in research. The article underscores the significance of commercial recordings as musicological sources, advocating for an expanded, scientifically grounded approach to their study and preservation.
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Blip, ping & buzz : making sense of radar and sonar
Have you ever wondered how stealth planes achieve \"invisibility, \" how sunken ships are found, or how fishermen track schools of fish in vast expanses of ocean? Radar and sonar echolocation—a simple matter of sending, receiving, and processing signals.
Weaving history with simple science, Mark Denny deftly reveals the world of radar and sonar to the curious reader, technology buff, and expert alike. He begins with an early history of the Chain Home radar system used during World War II and then provides accessible and engaging explanations of the physics that make signal processing possible. Basic diagrams and formulas show how electromagnetic and sound waves are transmitted, received, and converted into images, allowing you to literally see in the dark.
A section on bioacoustic echolocation, with a focus on the superior sonar systems of bats and whales and a discussion of the advanced technology of next-generation airborne signal processors, opens the imagination to fascinating possibilities for the future.
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Acoustic exposure and fire: an analysis of ‘correfocs’ in Barcelona
In Catalunya, devils are people belonging to a ‘Colla’ (a group partaking in fire and drumming street performances called a ‘Correfoc’). Many devils are part of a ‘colla’ for decades, thus exposing their hearing to extreme levels of sound several times a year. This can result in aural diversity and health being negatively impacted by the sound devils willingly expose themselves to. This paper examines the intricacy behind the sense of belonging and why the health impacts do not seem to deter participation in ‘correfocs’, a temporary making of place in the city. It also explores why are fireworks’ producers keeping their product so loud. The methodology has been a combination between quantitative methods (survey to ‘colles’ to gather information on placemaking and sensory perception and the sense of community) with qualitative methods (interviews to devils and pyrotechnic manufacturers). There is also an autoethnographic component during fire season 2022. There is a strong sense of belonging ascribed to a ‘colla’ and this influences devils to oversee their personal health. There is a tradition to pyrotechnical artifacts loudness that is now under review by the city, but change will be slow. The paper concludes proposing an aurally sustainable approach to partaking in this inherent element of Catalan popular culture. The originality of this paper is its transdisciplinary approach (between urban sociology, aural studies, and sensory studies) and the bodily effects of place-making during a correfoc.
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Editorial: Commercial music and the electronic music studio – influence, borrowings and language
The commercial music duo, whose music appeared on the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto V, convinced IPEM to let them house the institute’s legendary EMS Synthi 100 for a year while the ‘research center in systematic musicology’ underwent restoration. When we consider and document these influences, we draw on a variety of approaches to analysis that layers the semiotics of music in general with elements particular to electronic music that have emerged and developed in parallel within communities producing electroacoustic music, popular music, audio pedagogy and sound design for film, television and games. [...]each audio subfield has its own vocabulary and canonical references, and there are meaningful differences in the underlying conceptualisations and models of sound and technology and their intersections. [...]in film, the approach of trying to create and match elements that more accurately reflect the experience of a listener is of primary concern to the audio specialist (Holman 2010: 58).
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Encyclopedia of great popular song recordings
From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with the advent of the record industry, readers witness the birth of the blues and the dawn of jazz in the 1910s and the emergence of country music on record and the shift from acoustic to electrical recording in the 1920s. The odyssey continues through the Swing Era of the 1930s; rhythm & blues, bluegrass, and bebop in the 1940s; the rock & roll revolution of the 1950s; modern soul, the British invasion, and the folk-rock movement of the 1960s; and finally into the modern era through the musical streams of disco, punk, grunge, hip-hop, and contemporary dance-pop. Sullivan, however, also takes critical detours by extending the coverage to genres neglected in pop music histories, from ethnic and world music, the gospel recording of both black and white artists, and lesser-known traditional folk tunes that reach back hundreds of years. This book is ideal for anyone who truly loves popular music in all of its glorious variety, and anyone wishing to learn more about the roots of virtually all the music we hear today. Popular music fans, as well as scholars of recording history and technology and students of the intersections between music and cultural history will all find this book to be informative and interesting.
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Musicalizing the Heart Sutra: Buddhism, Sound, and Media in Contemporary Japan
In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstream tendency, since approximately 2008, ecclesiastic and non-ecclesiastic actors alike have made musical arrangements of the Heart Sutra. What do these musical arrangements help us to understand about the formation of Buddhist religiosity in contemporary Japan? In order to answer these questions, I analyze the circulation of these musical arrangements on online media platforms. I pursue the claim that they exhibit significant resonances with traditional Japanese Buddhist practices and concepts, while also developing novel sensibilities, behaviors, and understandings of Buddhist religiosity that are articulated by global trends in secularism, popular music, and ‘spirituality’. I suggest that they show institutionally marginal but publicly significant transformations in affective relationships with Buddhist religious content in Japan through the mediation of musical sound, which I interpret as indicative of an emerging “structure of feeling”. Overall, this essay demonstrates how articulating the rite of sutra recitation with modern music technologies, including samplers, electric guitars, and Vocaloid software, can generate novel, sonorous ways to experience and propagate Buddhism.
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