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ACLA panel

https://www.acla.org/political-ecology-silences

SSWG Meeting 12/11

We’ll be reading the introduction to Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic. Email Alex for directions and materials.

Dahlia Nayar presents a multimedia sound exhibit. Come through, 12/3-12/4 from 3-6PM.

The third in our series celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian features two of her former students sharing their groundbreaking work on Black sound, Black archives and Black feminist thought. Hosted by Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies.

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The Sound Studies Working Group is excited to announce our schedule of conversations on sound this semester. All events will be held virtually through the Zoom link above, and all are invited to attend! Please email the working group organizers for more information.

The sound-focused podcast World According to Sound is hosting a few more events in 2021 to close out their “Outside In’ Series. Every Thursday they are stream ing spatialized audio straight to the headphones of people listening together, all around the world. All shows are live at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern. Upcoming guests include Jacob Kirkegard, Matmos, and the Kronos Quartet.

For more info and tickets, visit: https://www.theworldaccordingtosound.org/outside-in/

This event will feature the noted scholar of Chinese literature and media culture, Professor Jie Li of Harvard University, in conversation with Andrew F. Jones about his latest book, Circuit Liste...

September 11 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom webinar

This event will feature the noted scholar of Chinese literature and media culture, Professor Jie Li of Harvard University, in conversation with Andrew F. Jones about his latest book, Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s, a multifaceted history of Chinese-language popular music and media at midcentury. In examining the Cold War-era circuits — both technological and geopolitical — through which popular music was channeled, Circuit Listening rewrites our sense of the global 1960s from the perspective of its rural, non-Western margins.

Registration required.

Talk February 1, 2021 6:30 — 8:00 PM

An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Lecture, presented as part of A+D Mondays, co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art Practice

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan Artist, Beirut

This lecture will deal not with the visualisation of sounds but rather the sonofication of images. What is politically at stake when an image behaves like a sound? The lecture will present ways of using sound and sonic imagination as new propositions for producing and reading images that are continuous with the omnidirectional and uncontainable way that sound propagates both throughout the space of a building, the border of a nation and through the architecture of memory itself.

***This talk will be postponed until a later date. Stay tuned for more details***

In nine albums recorded for Columbia Records between 1967 and 1975, the Firesign Theatre exploited the multitrack recording studio as a medium for literary writing in a way that has never been equaled, before or since. A hallmark of these recordings is the way their aural representation of numerous forms of media (often simultaneously). Though they are ostensibly comedy records, they contain a surprisingly trenchant and informed critique of the increasing mediatization of society during the Nixon years, creating highly mobile narratives set in a quasi-authoritarian world of curfews, restrictions, and mandatory consumption. Drawing from his book-length study of the Firesign Theatre, Jeremy Braddock will examine the group's third album, Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers (1970), paying particular attention to the narrative effects made possible with the new technologies of Dolby Noise Reduction and the 8-channel mixing desk. Recorded at the time of the Kent State killings and the historic MGM auction, the album can be understood as an attempt to propose the long-playing record as a new home for long-form narrative, in the wake of classical Hollywood's collapse.

#talk #seminar

Talk Friday, February 14, 4pm Morrison 128

Wokrshop and lunch Friday, February 14, 11:30am Wheeler 306

Nina Sun Eidsheim studied vocal performance, composition, and philosophy at the University of Agder (Norway) and The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus (Denmark) before pursing MFA in Music at the California Institute of the Arts. She completed her Ph.D. in critical studies/experimental practices program at the University of California, San Diego. Eidsheim is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (Duke University Press, 2015) and Measuring Race: the Micropolitics of Listening to Vocal Timbre and Vocality in African-American Popular Music (Duke University Press, 2019). She is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and a special issue on voice and materiality for the journal, Postmodern Culture (2014).

Also, please plan on joining the Sound Studies Working Group for a lunch workshop with Nina to discuss some of her recent work. Please contact harryburson[at]berkeley[dot]edu to receive the readings that will be circulated in advance. All are welcome!

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Thursday, November 14, 5pm Dwinelle 3335

Please join the extended Sawyer Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology and Literature and Cultural Studies for a lecture by Patrick Eisenlohr (author of Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World) on Thursday, November 14 at 5pm in Dwinelle 3335. His talk is titled "Sonic Privilege: Atmospheres in Indian Ocean Connections."

Moreover, on Friday, November 15, he will hold a lunch seminar about his book at 12pm in 4125a Dwinelle (connected to the Comp Lit main office.)

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Thursday, November 14, 7:30pm Center for New Music 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

Soundwave guest curator Christo Oropeza presents vocalist San Cha alongside Guillermo Galindo’s hand-made instruments from objects found at the border, in Nochtlaca: Todos, todos, todos. This program explores how borders, walls, and unity looks, feels, and sounds like, in the face of our polarized times. The artists will emphasize importance of sound as a vehicle for a shared cathartic experience. The evening also features Persia, beloved SF Drag Queen, who will create a special set of performances to accompany San Cha and Guillermo’s work.

Part of Soundwave is a Bay Area festival featuring the most captivating sound art and performance experiences. https://soundwavesf.com/soundwave9/

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Wednesday, October 30, 5pm Dwinelle 3335

Marília Librandi (Princeton University) will be discussing her recent book Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel (University of Toronto Press, Romance Studies Series, 2018) as well as other research on Brazilian literature and sound studies.

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Friday and Saturday, October 25-26 3401 Dwinelle Hall/300 Wheeler Hall

A colloquium that brings together French and American scholars of Virginia Woolf to explore the resonance of her work across the boundaries of language, history, medium, and nation.

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