New monograph by Karin Bijsterveld

Karin Bijsterveld’s synthetic monograph about the research in the Sonic Skills project has recently been published as an open access publication by Palgrave Macmillan, under the title Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s- present). The…

New book by Joeri Bruyninckx

MIT Press has recently published the new book by Joeri Bruyninckx (2018), Listening in the Field: Recording and the Science of Birdsong. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. The book is based on Joeri Bruyninckx’ dissertation as part of the Sonic Skills…

Publication of special issue in journal Sound Studies

Joeri Bruyninckx and Alexandra Supper have guest-edited the recently published vol.2:1 of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The special issue on “Sonic Skills in Cultural Contexts: Theories, Practices and Materialities of Listening” is now available from the journal website.

Karin Bijsterveld appointed as KNAW member

Karin Bijsterveld has been appointed as one the 16 new members of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Members of the KNAW are chosen on the basis of their academic achievements and appointed for life, based on…

Sonic Skills in publications and in the media

While the Sonic Skills project has officially concluded, we are still busy writing and talking about our research. Visit the Publications page to keep up-to-date about our recent activities – such as an article about “sharing sounds” by Anna Harris…

Sonic Skills Exhibition Website

The exhibition about the research for the Sonic Skills project, first displayed during the Sonic Science Festival in early 2015, is now available as a virtual exhibition on its own website: http://exhibition.sonicskills.org/  

New PhD project on displaying sound art

Linnea Semmerling has recently started her PhD project “Listening on Display. Exhibiting Sound Art 1960s-now” at FASoS, under the supervision of Karin Bijsterveld and Peter Peters, and with funding from NWO. For more information about this project, see here.

Website on Sonic Science Festival

In January 2015, the Sonic Science Festival will take place, in which the results of the Sonic Skills project will be translated into a multifaced art festival and exhibition for an audience of all ages. A website with detailed information…

New PhD Project on traffic information and car radio

The PhD project “Talking You Through: Traffic Information and Car Radio, 1950s-now” has recently been funded through the NWO programme PhD in the Humanities. Marith Dieker, who currently works as a research assistant preparing the Sonic Science Festival, will be…

Sonic Skills on the Radio

On May 23, a radio feature by Holger Schulze on “Sound & The Society” was broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur. The programme features interviews with several researchers working on the cultural history of sound, among them Sonic Skills project member Stefan…