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Please find the updated programme below.
For catering purposes we kindly request that you book before the end of the week.
SOUND TALKING
an interdisciplinary workshop on 'language describing sound / sound emulating language'
Friday 3 November 2017, London Science Museum
Info and registration: bit.ly/SoundTalking
Sound Talking is a one-day event at the London Science Museum that seeks to explore the complex relationships between language and sound, both historically and in the present day. It aims to identify the perspectives and methodologies of current
research in the ever-widening field of sound studies, and to locate productive interactions between disciplines.
Bringing together audio engineers, psychiatrists, linguists, musicologists, and historians of literature and medicine, we will be asking questions about sound as a point of linguistic engagement. We will consider the terminology used to discuss
sound, the invention of words that capture sonic experience, and the use and manipulation of sound to emulate linguistic descriptions. Talks will address singing voice research, improving film accessibility through audio, new music production tools, auditory
neuroscience, sounds in literature, and the sounds of the insane asylum.
Updated programme
- Maria Chait (UCL Ear Institute) - The auditory system as the brain’s early warning system
- Jonathan Andrews (Newcastle University) - Bedlam as soundscape: Noise at early modern Bethlem
COFFEE BREAK
- Melissa Dickson (University of Oxford) - Sounding out the body: The nineteenth-century stethoscope and the language of the heart
- Mariana Lopez (University of York) - The language of sound: Creating accessible film experiences for visually impaired audiences
LUNCH BUFFET
HISTORIC ARTEFACT DISPLAY (Aleks Kolkowski) - make your own wax cylinder recording, and more!
- David Howard (Royal Holloway University of London) - The sound of voice and voice of sound
- Brecht De Man (Queen Mary University of London) - “A bit more ooomph”: The language of music production
COFFEE BREAK
- Mandy Parnell (Black Saloon Studios) - Artistic direction: The various languages
- Trevor Cox (Salford University) - Categories for quotidian sounds
WINE RECEPTION
The £30 fee covers lunch, breaks, and the wine reception.
For more information, visit bit.ly/SoundTalking or contact the workshop chairs:
Melissa Dickson <melissa.dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Brecht De Man <b.deman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Brecht
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Brecht De Man
Postdoctoral researcher
Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary University of London
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
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