Functional Sounds: Auditory Culture and Sound Concepts in Everyday Life

Call for papers
Functional Sounds: Auditory Culture and Sound Concepts in Everyday Life‏
Berlin, 4-6 October 2013

Information and call for papers can be found at http://www.soundstudies.eu/2013conference/

The conference is organised by Sound Studies Lab at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the international research network Sound in Media Culture, and European Sound Studies Association (ESSA).

The conference provides six different streams addressing various aspects and hearing perspectives towards the functionality and dysfunctionality in auditory cultures in the past and today:

Soundscapes of the Urban Future
Cultural Politics & Sonic Experience
Pop & Sound
Methodologies of Sound in the Humanities
Sonic Artistic Practices & Research
Sound Design Practices