Thinking Sonic Environments

Thinking Sonic Environments: Soundscapes of Nature, Communities, and Art-works

The main goal of our conference is to provide a space for transdisciplinary discussions of various approaches to description and exploration of sonic environments. Such discussions have already been started decades ago in the area of acoustic ecology and sound studies and have developed into the vast and rich field of contemporary sonic research. We hope for an open and intellectually rewarding meeting that will allow for analyses of the complex composition and varied phenomenologies of interrelated sonic environments from multiple cooperating disciplinary perspectives. The conference seeks to explore the crossroads of biological, natural, social, cultural, political, and personal layers of our lived sonic environments that we are part of and that we at the same time create in our active shaping of the world.

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program

Day 1 ~ Wednesday, 21. 9.

9.30	Registration
10.00–11.30	Keynote talk Barry Truax, Simon Fraser University, Canada Listening, Acoustic Space and Soundscape Composition
11.30–11.50	Coffee break
11.50–13.00	SECTION 1 Molly Kelly, Emory University The Anarchy of the Soundscape: A Phenomenological Approach Reinan Ramos dos Santos, Panthéon-Sorbonne University Between Literature and Phenomenology in Saramago’s Blindness: On the Possibility of an Acoustic Intersubjectivity
13.00–14.00	Lunch break
14.00–15.10	SECTION 2 Martin Nitsche (TBA), Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Phenomenological Topology of Sonic Environments Jiří Zelenka (TBA), Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Sonic Environments and the Phenomenological Dynamic of Passivity and Activity
15.10–15.30	Coffee break
15.30–16.40	SECTION 3 Jan Lockenbauer, Grenoble Alpes University, University of Wuppertal Sound, Music, and Speech as Configurations of Lived Space according to Merleau-Ponty Vojtěch Výravský, Charles University Prague Forces of Music
19.00	Conference dinner

Day 2 ~ Thursday, 22. 9.

9.30–10.40	SECTION 4 Kirsten Stromberg, Syracuse University Florence  La Riva: Along The 𝄐 Marcus Zagorski, Comenius University Bratislava Planning a SoundMap to Combat Climate Change
10.40–11.00	Coffee break
11.00–12.10	SECTION 5 Csaba Hajnóczy, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies Possible roles of sound ecology in the development strategy of Szigetköz region, Hungary Elia Moretti, Charles University, Faculty of Arts Situated Sound Ecologies in Eastern Slovakia
12.10–13.10	Lunch break
13.10–14.20	SECTION 6 Ivan Gutierrez, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague On the Ways Technologically-Mediated Auditory Experience Can Inflect Ethical Inquiry Vít Pokorný, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Cultural Rhythms – Rhythmanalysis as a Method to Understand Culture
14.20–14.40	Coffee break
14.40–15.50	SECTION 7 Sławomir Wieczorek, Institute of Musicology, Soundscape Research Studio University of Wrocław, Poland Field Recordings in the Holocaust Memorial Sites Renata Tańczuk, The Soundscape Research Studio, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wroclaw The Soundscape of the Second World War Museum in Gdansk as an Apparatus for Remembering
15.50–16.10	Coffee break
16.10–17.20	SECTION 8 Hannah L. M. Eßler & Jim Igor Kallenberg, MA Transdisciplinary Studies, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland; ARS: art-research-sound, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, School of Music Mainz, Germany Siren’s call for Revolution. Sonic Memory and Transformative Experience in the “Symphony of Sirens” József Iszlai, researcher, music artist Budapest, Hungary Sonic Assault of Waco, 1993