Sounds travel through networks, memories, between people and places, from performers to audiences, through time as much as space, both live and as sonic potential stored in mechanical and electronic recordings, digital files and musical instruments. Sound is constantly on the move, at the same time as it resounds in the singular sonorous moments...
What can we learn from the current approaches to work with environmental sound ambiences and the way that sound is currently understood as environment at the intersection of sound ecology and popular music?
This article explores the idea of gaining pleasure from environmental sounds by deploying two concepts: pleasure and small agency.
This paper presents an interdisciplinary method designed to study urban ambiances. The main goal of the commented city walks approach is to gain access to the in situ sensory experience of passers-by. The key is to acquire accounts of perception in motion. For this, walking, perceiving and describing are simultaneously required. Commented walks are...
This article presents a critical overview of the research produced at Grenoble's CRESSON research center. It highlight some of the laboratories research perspectives and describes the work of its researchers.
This paper examines crowdfunding as a potential tool for cultural funding. After an introduction to crowdfunding, its rise and its use in various contexts, the paper discusses crowdfunding’s potential as a tool for funding cultural production. Crowdfunding is associated with a range of hopes and ideals, but problems with crowdfunding, as with crowdsourcing, can...
In light of the shift from music on compact discs to music as a digital file, this paper looks at how artists have used the fluidity and mobility of the digital music commodity to rework their practices of making music. Relatedly, it also explores how the movement of artists and their profiles through social...
Given the complexity and of the urban soundscape, mobile personal sound media (MPSM) are no doubt useful tools for constructing personal boundaries and maintaining a sense of aural privacy. Yet such use might also be seen as an anti-social exercise in personal isolation where listeners seek to cut themselves off from the sounds of...
This article explores various musical instrument practices of restoration/conservation and how they are pursued in relation to the Ondes Martenot. Given that many early electronic musical instruments like the Ondes Martenot are maintained in museum settings, conservation is typically the preferred approach, as it is considered more important for historical reasons. Although conservation entails...