Anthropology of Sound: Sonic artifacts (the Netherlands and beyond)

The anthropology of sound. Have you ever heard of auditive pollution? Or the idea that sonic environments might shape who we are and how we behave as human beings?

The anthropology and digitization of sound are becoming increasingly important within academia, art and culture at large. This project, based in the Netherlands, is a valuable step towards the broadening of our perspectives in the realm of sensory studies. Safeguarding an astonishing 800.000 hours of television, radio, music and film from 1898 to today, collecting, preserving and opening this audiovisual heritage for as many users as possible: media professionals, education, science and the general public.

It's a project worth exploring.
https://openbeelden.nl/media/639304
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'Sound of the Netherlands' is a project by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Auditieve Dienst and Kennisland, which was supported by the digitization program Images for the Future.

More than 2,000 of the historical sounds are so-called ‘own recordings’ from the sound archive of Sound and Vision, including many "lost sounds”, and are made online accessible to a wide audience. To stimulate contributions to and reuse of the collection several events were organized, like workshops and contests.

Not only within ethnomusicology are anthropologists concerned with sensory studies, experiential hearing (and feeling) and aesthetical concepts or notions related to sound, noise or music.

For an in-depth dive into the topic, we agree with Prof. Dr. Holger Schulze and would like to direct our attention towards the following researchers:

⸙ Jean-Luc Nancy and his theory of corporeality,
⸙ Eugene T. Gendlin and the theory of the felt sense in speech and performance,
⸙ Régis Debray's mediological theory of cultural transmission,
⸙ Kodwo Eshun and his methodological sonic fiction-approach,
⸙ and finally, Michael Serres' sensory anthropology.
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A special thanks to Prof. Dr. Holger Schulze, professor in musicology at the University of Copenhagen and the principal investigator at the Sound Studies Lab.

⸙ "The Sound of the Netherlands" [https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_http___openbeelden_nl_media_639304] by Sebastiaan ter Burg (director, editor, audio) and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (producer) [https://openbeelden.nl/] is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/]. The content has not been modified. This includes "Grote gele kwikstaart in Utrecht" by Luc de Bruijn (licensed under CC BY), "Soundlogo Geluid van Nederland" by Geert Rombout (licensed under CC BY-SA) and "Zebrastep [aerotrain edit]" by John O'Connell, Bruno Rocha and Jan Van Balen (licensed under CC BY-SA).

⸙ [Thumbnail:] "Flöjtspelande kvinna, Alger" [https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/916106/vbg_photo_VMAA436] by Charles Leinack (Creator) and Vänersborgs museum (providing institution) [https://digitaltmuseum.se/] is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/]. Modifications to the original image: Cropped out the written mention of creator Charles Leinack and the Vänersborgs museum as the providing institution.
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#Anthropology #Ethnomusicology #Digitization #Soundscapes
#AuditiveEnvironments #SonicArtifacts #Corporeality #Performance

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