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:
Karin 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.