hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de
#retrocomputing #musicology #homecomputer #chiptune #soundstudies #blips #digitalhumanities #hacknplay2026
Next semester I'll teach the block seminar "#Chiptunes - Klangerzeugung und Musikproduktion mit dem #Commodore64" at the department for #MediaStudies at University Bonn.
Global Hip Hop Studies special issue: “Hip-Hop Diaspora: Memory, Technology and the Politics of Electric Infrastructure”
Seeking work on #HipHop, infrastructure, analogue/digital practices, archives, energy humanities, diasporic sound systems, and technological precarity across the Global South.
Deadline: 01/08/2026
https://www.intellectbooks.com/global-hip-hop-studies#call-for-papers
#HipHopStudies #SoundStudies #DigitalHumanities #DiasporaStudies #PopularMusic

Global Hip Hop Studies; Global Hip Hop Studies (GHHS) is a Diamond Open Access, peer-reviewed, rigorous and community-responsive academic journal that publishes research on contemporary as well as historical issues and debates surrounding hip hop music and culture around the world, twice annually. GHHS is Open Access through a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model and does not charge APCs or submission fees. To access the journal for free or for more information visit the Discover platform here. Facebook: Global Hip Hop StudiesTwitter: @GHHSJournal GHHS is supported by the European Research Council and University College Cork, Ireland. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Submission guidelines can be found below in a downloadable file titled 'Notes for Contributors'. The submissions portal can be found by scrolling down and selecting 'Submit'.
(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.
#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics
A new long-read on @soundingfuture: Gerriet K. Sharma — composer, co-founder of spæs Lab Berlin — on the IKO as a genuine instrument.
https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/sound-space-interview-gerriet-k-sharma-spaes-lab-berlin
#ElectroacousticMusic #ComputerMusic #Ambisonics #SpatialAudio #SoundArt #IKO #3DAudio #SoundStudies
Global Music Production in Times of Longevity
📍 Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
📅 10–12 November 2026
Interdisciplinary seminar on music, aging, and demographic change, addressing production, markets, technologies, aesthetics, and intergenerational knowledge transmission.
Deadline: 15/06/2026
edited by Lawrence English , Robert Takahashi Novak – Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
#sensoryart #antenna
#signalprocessing
#audioart
#binaural
#electromagnetic
#electronicinstruments
#interference
#microphones
#sampling
#audiorecording
#transmissionart
#soundfrequency
#sound #soundart #soundartist #klangkunst
#soundinstallation #soundartinstallation
#soundscapes #acousticspace #sonicworld
#vibration
#audiology #soundscience
#soundstudies
#CFP
Music in the (Sub-)Arctic
📍 Oxford
📅 7–8 September 2026
Interdisciplinary conference on music, sound, climate, Indigenous expression, and geopolitics in Arctic and sub-Arctic contexts.
Deadline: 15/05/2026
https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-09-07-music-in-the-sub-arctic
#Ethnomusicology
#SoundStudies #ArcticStudies #IndigenousStudies
Musical Commemorations/Contestations
Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.
Deadline: 01/05/2026
#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies
Today's blog post: Pandemic music was not always about remembrance. Sometimes it was about distraction: parody songs, TikTok dances, sea shanties, Boccaccio, and the long, liminal hours in the shade of crisis. Plus a Kermit the Frog reference.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com
#PandemicMusic #Musicology #CulturalMemory #SoundStudies #blog #research #distraction #CulturalAmnesia #Boccaccio #TikTok #parody