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Revisiting the Soundscape Concept
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
What is the soundscape of our lives? What does the soundscape convey about the time and place in which we live? R. Murray Schafer: “We must seek a way to make environmental acoustics a positive study program. […]Posted December 01, 2015. -
John Cage & Fluxus
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
John Cage’s Water Walk: !–more– Fluxus was an international network of artists, active primarily in the 1960s, interested in overcoming boundaries between […]Posted November 19, 2015. -
John Cage on Silence
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
Here is the video of John Cage that we viewed in class today:Posted November 17, 2015. -
Dark Side of the Cell
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
The media artist Anne Niemetz and the nano-scientist Andrew Pelling have collaborated on a video-installation that uses recordings of cellular sounds. Read more about it and listen to examples at “Dark Side of the […]Posted November 10, 2015. -
Voice & Materiality
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
What is a voice? What are our ideas about the voice and our ways of using the voice? Voices are tied to bodies. They convey physicality, emotion, and meaning all together. The Problem with Bodies (Gregory […]Posted November 03, 2015. -
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Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
You can listen to the sounds and songs of the Kaluli, including the examples discussed by Feld in his article “A Rainforest Acoustemology,” on YouTube.Posted October 13, 2015. -
Listen (R. Murray Schafer)
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
Video about R. Murray Schafer to supplement his article about “The Soundscape”: https://www.nfb.ca/film/listenPosted October 13, 2015. -
Capoeira: The Dance of Freedom
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
Documentary about capoeira to supplement the article by Greg Downey:Posted October 06, 2015. -
Testing testing testing
Vicki Brennan on Vicki L. Brennan
I want to add a sound file to the blog. This is how I would do it: Did it work?Posted October 04, 2015. -
Edison's Talking Dolls
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
In “The Sounds Around Us,” by Lawrence English, we learned about Ludwig Koch’s recording of a Common Sharma using a wax cylinder recorder. English describes this as the first “field recording” and says that it is […]Posted September 22, 2015. -
Your Brain on Music
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin discusses how our brains interpret music:Posted September 21, 2015. -
Hearing vibrations
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
In “Introduction: Hearing Vibrations,” Shelley Trower examines the development of scholarly, scientific, and popular writings about sound as vibration. She is particularly interested in how attempts to detect, […]Posted September 16, 2015. -
Welcome!
Vicki Brennan on Sound and Society--Fall 2015
Welcome to the Sound Blog for the Fall 2015 semester of AS 010: Sound and Society. Here we will collect, create and curate examples of sounds that exemplify, augment, or otherwise enhance our understanding of […]Posted August 28, 2015. -
The Phonograph and the Research Process
Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM
This post will be the final one on my research on Yoruba gospel music. It has also been the most difficult to write. In part, this is because I want (need?) to be more speculative and abstract in my discussion of […]Posted March 19, 2015. -
The Genius of Yoruba Music
Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM
This is Part Three of a series posts about Professor Brennan’s new research on Rev. J.J. Ransome-Kuti and the history of Yoruba gospel music. Here are links to the earlier posts: Part One and Part Two. I want […]Posted February 25, 2015. -
Ransome-Kuti: Between Old and New
Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM
In my last post about Rev. J.J. Ransome-Kuti and the origins of Yoruba gospel music I indicated that there were a number of things that I do not know about his recordings; namely why they were made, how they were […]Posted February 13, 2015. -
Rev. J. J. Ransome-Kuti and the History of Yoruba Gospel Music
Vicki Brennan on Religion@UVM
Last September I announced on the REL@UVM blog that I would post periodic updates about what I was up to while on sabbatical. I then disappeared…into my field notes, stacks of library books, and pages of notes on […]Posted February 04, 2015.
