Global Sonic Cultures

The meanings of performing and listening symbolise the audio-visual arts. Contemporary arts include various kinds of performances and they all evolve and develop fast during the entire artistic industry’s blooming progress. To balance the relationship between visualisation and hearing is considered as a necessary factor when the artists doing the performance. Sharing with the instant…

“In recent years, sensory ethnography has emerged in response to the way that anthropology has represented its human subjects in media, primarily through film. This new discipline, which has its roots in field recordings, sound art and ethnographic films, tries to develop a way of approaching anthropology’s social concerns, maintaining its methodological imperative to clearly…

She’s born in Iran, raised in the Netherlands, a former Dutch national basketball player, and now an independent musician, a cross combination of multiple identities has made a Sevdaliza. With such a rich cultural background, her works can always mix various styles appropriately, “a fusion of classical and modern.” Sevdaliza describes her music in this…

A sonic culture exists wherever a social group orients its activities around a particular set of practices that has to do with sound, listening/hearing (or non-hearing), and/or the use or creation of sound instruments. Global sonic cultures seem to be a massive topic to talk about the relationship between sonic cultures and current social issues.…