ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUND

How do human beings experience sonic environments under historically and culturally changing circumstances - and what are the epistemological implications of such a turn to an experiential hearing perspective in the wider field of sensory studies?... How do designers, sound artists and researchers speak about sound in the recently established research field of sound studies? What are the most urgent research questions and issues? What are the different methods they apply to research on or to design and work artistically with sound? And what are their findings - in research and in the arts?... Which transformations can be observed in the cultural history of sound by the rise of media culture - in practices and concepts, as well as in artifacts and technologies? Which methods are appropriate to explore how the scientific entity of sound is constituted in historical and contemporary media culture?