Journal of Sonic Studies
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About this portal
The portal is used to publish contributions for the online OA Journal of Sonic Studies, the storage of A/V materials, and the storage of previous issues.
contact person(s):
Marcel Cobussen ![](/rc/images/email.gif)
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Vincent Meelberg ![](/rc/images/email.gif)
url:
http://sonicstudies.org/about
Recent Activities
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Editorial
(2020)
author(s): Pedro J S Vieira de Oliveira
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Editorial for the Journal of Sonic Studies 19.
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Rail Transport Soundscapes: Journeys in the Urban Space of São Paulo
(2020)
author(s): Nicolau Centola
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Project R$4.00 proposes a study of the soundscapes of public rail transport in the metropolitan region of São Paulo. The author travelled with an audio recorder for more than three hours on the city’s subway and train lines. The aim was to analyze the sound similarities and differences between the 12 city lines. This recording was transformed into a sound installation which uses binaural techniques to recreate the sound spatialization recorded inside the wagons.
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Radio Art in Brazil: A Panorama of Artists and Productions
(2020)
author(s): Mauro Sá Rego Costa, Adriana Gomes Ribeiro and Pedro de Albuquerque Araujo
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Abstract: The essay begins with a synthetic history of the emergence of radio art in Brazil. We present different ways in which radio art is produced and programmed in Brazil, enumerating the principal stations and artists, starting with the two public cultural stations in which it was first produced: Rádio Cultura FM (São Paulo) and Rádio MEC FM (Rio de Janeiro). The text also introduces readers to artists who have created radio art and sound art pieces in and out of the space of airwaves within art galleries and museums or outdoors. Finally, we present the most recent overview of Brazilian radio art using the Internet and all interconnected media.
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The Triangle and the Thin Biscuit: Reverberations of a Walking Practice
(2020)
author(s): Thaís Amorim Aragão
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
The sound of the triangle played by street vendors who sell a kind of wafer, known as chegadinho, in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza is often associated with childhood memories. Taken together, however, these acoustically marked trajectories can reveal complex dynamics regarding the city's own territory and its relationship to other places in Latin America and Europe. This article aims to present data collected from street vendors who reported on how they use sound and space to communicate with the population. I also discuss documentary research on the precedence of the practice as well as its influence on Brazilian music.
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Sonic Politics: Sonority, Territoriality, and Violence in Urban Cultural Practices in Brazil
(2020)
author(s): Pedro Silva Marra and Thaise Valentim Madeira
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
In this paper we build upon Gumbrecht’s definition of violence as all acts and all forms of behavior that occupy or block spaces through bodies, against the resistance of other bodies, in order to explore the relationship between sound and violence. Examined within a broader context, it may reveal how conflict and disputes are – as much as acts of exchanging and bonding – engines of society.
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Navegando hacia un sur sonoro: Two Sound Stories From South America
(2020)
author(s): Leandro Pisano
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
As a moving and expanding terrain, sound art in South America is a research, application and sharing environment for a work developed by at least three decades of artists who have experimented with methods and processes in which sound intersects with digital technologies and with unconventional approaches to listening. The text presented here focuses specifically on two works produced within this extended context of practices, which offer many types of sound narration in which different elements emerge connected to the complexity of the levels of listening, even political in the South: Temporal de Santa Rosa by Brian Mackern, a recording and installation project that reinterprets popular, religious and traditional elements in a post-digital key and Antartica 1961-1996, an installation by Alejandra Pérez Núñez that investigates the imperceptibility of the political processes of appropriation of the Antarctic territory in recent decades by part of nation states.