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Sound Studies and Methods Working Group #GCDISound

The Sound Studies and Methods working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty, and staff who are interested in sharing theories, methods, and techniques related to doing qualitative and quantitative research, teaching, storytelling, and creating art with sounds and audio files, and finding resources and support from others to do so. The group is open to scholars from all disciplines to explore ways that we as researchers and makers can study and use sound in our scholarship and pedagogy.

The Sound Studies and Methods working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.

Members of the group are encouraged to share their projects, ideas, and questions concerning studies and uses of sounds and audio technologies through this group. This group was created after the success of the 2017-2018 GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series: a series of talks and workshops on topics related to sound analysis, comparison, theory, production, and recording — learn more about the past series at: cuny.is/gcdisound and on Twitter following the hashtag #GCDISound.

If you are analyzing, theorizing, producing, recording, or sharing sounds or audio as part of your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in learning more about different methods for sourcing or creating sounds for storytelling, podcasting, sensory ethnography, artistic exhibitions, or oral history projects, or managing, coding, or archiving copious audio files, we invite you to join the Sound Studies and Methods working group.

[Group avatar image source: matthewgpotter, “waves” on Flickr, 2015, CC license]

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Article: 'Sounding Out the Personal Archive"

  • Posted by Kelsey Chatlosh on November 13, 2019 at 1:59 pm

    Hi all,

    Sharing this article in case it may be of interest–

    “Sounding Out the Personal Archive” by anthropologist Claudia Câmpeanu and sound artist Mara Mãrãcinescu
    http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/martor24_09_Campeanu_Maracinescu.pdf

    From the abstract:
    “This paper is about working with archives—finding, accessing, making them
    intelligible, producing and curating them—and what this process looks like
    when we privilege sound as material, process, instrument, and logic. In our
    audio project, we took personal archives as a starting point and through audio
    recording we produced two more related archives: a carefully edited and
    curated one, the podcast Americanii, and an unedited “rough” one, the totality
    of audio recordings (and some photographs) we produced in several weeks of
    fieldwork.”

    (Also, very excited to see the interview I did with Prof. Roshanak Kheshti for SSRC’s Parameters cited!)

    All best from Chile,
    Kelsey

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