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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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  • GC Center for the Humanities event on 12/12: Listening with Radical Empathy

    Posted by Kelsey Chatlosh on December 10, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    Hi all,

    This Wednesday, December 12th, the Center for the Humanities at the GC is hosting “Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!” from 6:00-8:00 PM in the GC Skylight Room (9100). The event is hosted by a group of artists and scholars from The Laundromat Project and the CUNY community, participating in a semester-long Center for the Humanities workshop series led by oral historian Sady Sullivan, and will feature a sound bath led by sound therapist, vocalist, and yoga instructor Jessica Caplan. More info below.

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    Sharing from the Center for the Humanities’ website:

    Listening with Radical Empathy: A Listening Party!
    PERFORMANCE & CONVERSATION
    Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM
    The Skylight Room (9100)

    “Join us for an experimental and collaborative oral history sound experience! Our Listening Party is a celebration of a semester-long workshop series, led by Sady Sullivan, that brought together 12 artists and scholars from The Laundromat Project fam and the CUNY community.

    They’ll share audio and new oral history interviews from their collaborative exploration into voice, multiplicity, and listening with radical empathy. You’ll be asked to participate as activated embodied listeners—How do we hear? How do we feel? How do we resonate?

    Together, we’ll create moments of connection, discomposure, amplification, discord, and silence. We look forward to the conversations that will emerge, as well as nurturing future interdisciplinary oral history collaborations.

    We’ll also be joined by sound therapist, vocalist, and yoga instructor Jessica Caplan, who will lead us in a sound bath, a ceremonial experience of vibrational healing through sound and music.

    This event is free and open to the public, but to attend, please RSVP here.

    This event is the culmination of an eight-session workshop “The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy,” where six CUNY scholar/artists and six artist/scholars met to discuss oral history, archives, advocacy, and identity. The workshop participants are: Jamie San Andres, Arita Balaram, Pelenakeke (Keke) Brown, Jaime Shearn Coan, Rachel Corbman, Lizania Denisse Cruz, Oriana Elisa Gonzales, Allison Guess, Arielle Knight, Logan McBride, Nadia Mohamed, and Dhipinder Walia.

    The workshop was led by Sady Sullivan, and is a collaboration with The Laundromat Project (The LP) and the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is part of The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archiving research team lead by Prithi Kanakamedala, Assistant Professor of History, Bronx Community College, CUNY, and generously supported by the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research. Click here for more information about this workshop.”

    Find the above information on the Center for the Humanities website here.

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