Project: Sound Technologies & Cultural Practices

The Sound Technologies & Cultural Practices project was funded by NWO through their Transformations Program, and ran from 2004-2009.

Project members: José van Dijck, Karin Bijsterveld, Wiebe Bijker, Ruth Benschop, Bas Jansen.

The project has resulted in the Sound Souvenirs exhibition and a number of other outreach activities – you can find information about those on the Sound Souvenirs website.

Project publications include a book, a special issue, a number of articles, and a dissertation:

sound souvenirsKarin Bijsterveld & José van Dijck (eds.), Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.

The full text of the book can be downloaded here.

 

 

 

 

 

José van Dijck & Karin Bijsterveld (eds.) (2003). Themanummer ‘Geluid’. In: Tijdschrift voor
Mediageschiedenis, vol. 6:2.

 

Ruth Benschop (2007). “Memory machines or musical instruments? Soundscapes, recording technologies and reference”. In: International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 10:4, 485-502.

Ruth Benschop (2009). “Experimenting the Listener. Sound Art and the Doing‐Done to Audience”. In: Krisis, vol. 2009:1, pp.33‐45.

Karin Bijsterveld (2004). “‘What Do I Do with My Tape Recorder…?’ Sound Hunting and the Sounds of Everyday Dutch Life in the 1950s and 1960s”. In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 24:4, pp.614-634.

Karin Bijsterveld, José van Dijck, Annelies Jacobs & Bas Jansen(2013). “Sound Technologies and Cultural Practices: How Analogies Make us Listen to Transformations in Arts and Culture”. In J. Frissen, K. Zijlmans & R. Zwijnenberg (eds.), Understanding Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Arts & Humanities Research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 139-154.

Bas Jansen (2013). “The Case of CCMixter”. In J. Frissen, K. Zijlmans & R. Zwijnenberg (eds.), Understanding Contemporary Culture: New Directions in Arts & Humanities Research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 155-166.

Bas Jansen (2011). Where Credit is Due: Cultural Practices of Recorded Music. Dissertation, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

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