Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture, are pleased to announce a call for papers
for the inaugural issue “An Ear Alone is Not a Being”: Embodied Mediations in
Audio Culture, to be launched in the Spring of 2011.
To what extent are acoustic practices embodied? How does physical embodiment
shape auditory cognition? What role do processes such as biofeedback and genetic
algorithms play in contemporary musical practices? What kinds of idealised listening
subjects are encoded in acoustic algorithms such as codecs, head-related transfer
functions or binaural recording specifications? How are psychoacoustic effects
deployed for and against the body? How might we speak about listening practices
that extend beyond the ear to sensorial or haptic accounts of audition?
The inaugural issue of Interference investigates the mediative role of the body in
sonic practices. Embodied mediation presumes a reciprocal process: we explore how
listening experiences and acoustic practices are shaped by corporeality, but we also
attend to the many ways in which these processes work upon that body, through
psychophysical affect and the representation and encoding of embodied subjects in
acoustic performances, technologies, and cultural artefacts. Submissions may take
the form of academic articles or statements of research and practice. For more
information see the submission guidelines.
Proposals for this issue of Interference might address, but not exclusively, some of
the following issues and points of discussion:
• Research in Embodied Music Cognition
• Phenomenology of Sound
• Biofeedback: the role played by corporeality in sonic arts, musical practices,
performance and design
• Sonic Dominance: the use of acoustic properties as affective tools
• Sonic Mediations: Exploring the mediative role of the body between cognitive
response and acoustic environment. Exploring the relationship between the
body and tools for acoustic composition and performance.
• Encoding Bodies: An exploration of how the body might be represented or
encoded in practices as diverse as instrument design, networked
performances, psychoacoustic algorithms, prosthetic devices etc.
• Haptic or intersensory listening practices
Interference balances its content between academic and practice based research
and therefore accepts proposals for both academic papers and accounts of practice
based research.
Deadline for Abstracts October 31st 2010 to editor@interferencejournal.com
Deadline for Final Papers January 15th 2011 to editor@interferencejournal.com
For more information, and submission guidelines please see
www.interferencejournal.com or contact editor@interferencejournal.com