Karin Bijsterveld
Biographic Data
| ID | 399780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Bijsterveld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bijsterveld |
| SIGNATURE | BIJSTERVELD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8606-3437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Highways to Silence Revisited: A History of Discourse Coalitions around Traffic Noise
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the density of road traffic in the Global North decreased considerably. For those enjoying the resulting tranquillity, it prompted the hope that this experience would raise public noise awareness and alter mobility culture. Now that Global North economies are returning to pre-pandemic levels, however, not much appears to have changed. This article aims to contribute to understanding the persistence of the status quo …
Eavesdropping by the eye: Detecting Sound Events and the Culture of Acoustic Intelligence
An increasing number of private companies in the Global North are selling acoustic intelligence software to local authorities for the detection of sound events in public space that signal potential or actual infringements on security. Such sound events include screams, gunshots, exploding firecrackers, sounding car alarms, and breaking glass. This paper aims to show how three such companies – based in the Netherlands, South Korea, and the United …
Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West
This introduction to the special issue "Forensic voices: Cultures of sonic detection and identification in the West" explains the notion of "forensic voices," positions this in scholarly literature on sound in forensic practices, and introduces the individual contributions
Histories of Hearing
In January 2019, the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL) at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris presented the conference Sound and Music in the Prism of Sound Studies. 1 A spectacular video announces the event: a heavy-metal band screams about the conference’s themes and cries out each speaker’s name, which is in turn spelt out on screen in gothic-bloody font. The band’s song lyrics note that the foc…
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Slicing Sound: Speaker Identification and Sonic Skills at the Stasi, 1966-1989
It is well known that the Ministry of State Security in the former German Democratic Republic was deeply involved in wiretapping and eavesdropping on both foreigners and its citizens. It is less widely known that, against this background, the Stasi developed a keen interest in technologies and techniques of speaker identification, such as the visualization of recorded sound and aural analysis. How exactly did Stasi employees analyze the sound of …
Sounds Convincing: Modes of Listening and Sonic Skills in Knowledge Making
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
Beyond Echoic Memory
Research Article| November 01 2015 Beyond Echoic Memory: Introduction to the Special Issue on Auditory History Karin Bijsterveld Karin Bijsterveld Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2015) 37 (4): 7–13. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2015.37.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
Ears-on Exhibitions
Between March 2013 and November 2014, the Amsterdam Museum had an installation that enabled visitors to compare a recent soundscape recording of the Dam Square with simulations of how the Dam sounded in 1895 and 1935. Constructing these simulations involved virtual acoustics software, recordings of historical artifacts, and research into the urban past. This paper critically discusses how the installation was made and received by comparing the ac…
Soundscapes of the Urban Past
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage
ing »sensescapes« of cities in particular, even though sound is only one of the sensorial experiences under study. 17 From these studies we know that many conflicts about sound have involved issues of power and the right to dominate some environment with specific sounds or, conversely, to free a setting from such sounds.The urban campaigns in the late 1800s by the intellectual elite against street musicians, for instance, were an expression not o…
New Keys to the World of Sound
Sound is no longer produced only by humans and nature. New sources of sound such as the ipod and cell phones demonstrate that sounds have become personal and mobile. New sounds such as those of industrialization, automobile engine, and electronic sounds have entered the “soundscape”. Sounds can be captured in new ways, which are becoming a part of everyday life. The consequences of all of this are vast. Sound becomes more materially mediated in a…
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts. Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a study…
Composing Claims on Musical Instrument Development: A Science and Technology Studies' Contribution
The historiography of musical instrument design has long been dominated by organology: the science of musical instruments and their classification. Recently, however, scholars from Science & Technology Studies (STS) have also taken up the study of musical instrument development. This article reviews the newest organological and STS literature on musical instruments to show which questions and approaches STS has added to the rich work of the organ…
Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind
Since the late 1990s, car manufacturers increasingly underline their cars' interior tranquility Both this acoustic condition and the availability of car audio sets enable drivers to transform their car into a highly personal, controlled and relaxing sonic bubble Yet how could the car, once a noisy contraction, evolve into such a space for acoustic cocooning? This article studies the introduction of car radio and interior car sound design in Europ…
Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices
The series Transformations in Art and Culture is dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary transformations in arts and culture, emphasizing processes of cultural change as they manifest themselves over time, through space, and in various media.Main goal of the series is to examine the effects of globalization, commercialization and technologization on the form, content, meaning and functioning of cultural products and socio-cultural p…
Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles, and gramo…
Listening to machines: Industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound
Ever since the eighteenth century, physicians have claimed that the noise of hammering and other industrial activities may induce hearing loss. Protecting workers' hearing by the use of earplugs was one of the solutions proposed, particularly after the Second World War. Employees, however, often declined the medics' help. This article examines the role of the cultural meaning of sound in the clash between the expert definitions of the problem of …
Electronic and Computer Music (review)
Reviewed by: Electronic and Computer Music Karin Bijsterveld (bio) Electronic and Computer Music. By Peter Manning. New York: Oxford University Press, rev. ed., 2004. Pp. x+474. $35. Never did I feel the need to visit a website accompanying a book more so than when reading this book about the developments in electronic music after 1945. Whereas one chapter on Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) was sufficient in Peter Manning's first edit…
Breaking into a World of Perfection: Innovation in Today’s Classical Musical Instruments
Professional music journals frequently publish descriptions of newly registered patents concerning classical musical instruments. Only a few of the many proposals for innovation actually enter production. The large number of ideas for improving musical instruments such as the violin, the flute and the bassoon contrasts strikingly with the stability of the often age-old design of these instruments. Notably, the instruments of the symphony orchestr…
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (review)
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. x+450. $69.95/$22.95
What do I do with my tape recorder: Sound hunting and the sounds of everyday Dutch life in the 1950s and 1960s
Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
Developments in sound technologies over the last 50 years have dramatically changed the way that music is produced and consumed. In the 19th century most music was experienced as live performance. Today most music is listened to individually through technologically mediated devices, such as a personal stereo or a personal computer that enables the downloading of MP3 files over the Internet, and in the past few decades music has been produced with…
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (review)
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life. By Dolores Hayden. Revised edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. 286. $15.95
Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
Developments in sound technologies over the last 50 years have dramatically changed the way that music is produced and consumed. In the 19th century most music was experienced as live performance. Today most music is listened to individually through technologically mediated devices, such as a personal stereo or a personal computer that enables the downloading of MP3 files over the Internet, and in the past few decades music has been produced with…
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts. Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a study…
Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices
The series Transformations in Art and Culture is dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary transformations in arts and culture, emphasizing processes of cultural change as they manifest themselves over time, through space, and in various media.Main goal of the series is to examine the effects of globalization, commercialization and technologization on the form, content, meaning and functioning of cultural products and socio-cultural p…
Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles, and gramo…
Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind
Since the late 1990s, car manufacturers increasingly underline their cars' interior tranquility Both this acoustic condition and the availability of car audio sets enable drivers to transform their car into a highly personal, controlled and relaxing sonic bubble Yet how could the car, once a noisy contraction, evolve into such a space for acoustic cocooning? This article studies the introduction of car radio and interior car sound design in Europ…
The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age: Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns, 1900-40
New technologies profoundly change our sonic surroundings, the world's soundscape. However, research dealing with the sound of technology is scarce within Science and Technology Studies (S&TS). This study argues that such a silence should be broken, since the sound of technology not only tunes our sonic environment, but has also been a highly controversial aspect of technology loaded with symbolic significance. Research into such a symbolism of s…
Sounds Convincing: Modes of Listening and Sonic Skills in Knowledge Making
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
"Should One Applaud?" Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music
The debate surrounding the introduction of new musical instruments is examined as a way to elicit norms underlying musical practice and culture. The paper details the introduction of three twentieth century instruments: the player piano, the "noise instruments" of the futurists and the electronic music synthesizer. The responses to these new instruments both among classical performers and in the realm of popular culture reveal how traditional nor…
Breaking into a World of Perfection: Innovation in Today’s Classical Musical Instruments
Professional music journals frequently publish descriptions of newly registered patents concerning classical musical instruments. Only a few of the many proposals for innovation actually enter production. The large number of ideas for improving musical instruments such as the violin, the flute and the bassoon contrasts strikingly with the stability of the often age-old design of these instruments. Notably, the instruments of the symphony orchestr…
Slicing Sound: Speaker Identification and Sonic Skills at the Stasi, 1966-1989
It is well known that the Ministry of State Security in the former German Democratic Republic was deeply involved in wiretapping and eavesdropping on both foreigners and its citizens. It is less widely known that, against this background, the Stasi developed a keen interest in technologies and techniques of speaker identification, such as the visualization of recorded sound and aural analysis. How exactly did Stasi employees analyze the sound of …
Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage
ing »sensescapes« of cities in particular, even though sound is only one of the sensorial experiences under study. 17 From these studies we know that many conflicts about sound have involved issues of power and the right to dominate some environment with specific sounds or, conversely, to free a setting from such sounds.The urban campaigns in the late 1800s by the intellectual elite against street musicians, for instance, were an expression not o…
Women Walking through Plans: Technology, Democracy, and Gender Identity
"Every house plan I will continue to see as a VAC woman: walking through a plan, in my mind slamming doors and placing cupboards, figuring out where and how I would sleep, wash, cook, relax, and play with children in this situation." So wrote the outgoing chairwoman of one of the Netherlands' Vrouwen Adviescommissies voor de Woningbouw (Women's Advisory Committees on Housing, VACs) in her farewell statement. 1 The quotation captures many ideas th…
Eavesdropping by the eye: Detecting Sound Events and the Culture of Acoustic Intelligence
An increasing number of private companies in the Global North are selling acoustic intelligence software to local authorities for the detection of sound events in public space that signal potential or actual infringements on security. Such sound events include screams, gunshots, exploding firecrackers, sounding car alarms, and breaking glass. This paper aims to show how three such companies – based in the Netherlands, South Korea, and the United …
Listening to machines: Industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound
Ever since the eighteenth century, physicians have claimed that the noise of hammering and other industrial activities may induce hearing loss. Protecting workers' hearing by the use of earplugs was one of the solutions proposed, particularly after the Second World War. Employees, however, often declined the medics' help. This article examines the role of the cultural meaning of sound in the clash between the expert definitions of the problem of …
Ears-on Exhibitions
Between March 2013 and November 2014, the Amsterdam Museum had an installation that enabled visitors to compare a recent soundscape recording of the Dam Square with simulations of how the Dam sounded in 1895 and 1935. Constructing these simulations involved virtual acoustics software, recordings of historical artifacts, and research into the urban past. This paper critically discusses how the installation was made and received by comparing the ac…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Composing Claims on Musical Instrument Development: A Science and Technology Studies' Contribution
The historiography of musical instrument design has long been dominated by organology: the science of musical instruments and their classification. Recently, however, scholars from Science & Technology Studies (STS) have also taken up the study of musical instrument development. This article reviews the newest organological and STS literature on musical instruments to show which questions and approaches STS has added to the rich work of the organ…
What do I do with my tape recorder: Sound hunting and the sounds of everyday Dutch life in the 1950s and 1960s
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (review)
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. x+450. $69.95/$22.95
The City of Din: Decibels, Noise, and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980
Science and technology have played a crucial role in regulating problems resulting from urban overcrowding. In the twentieth century, the decibel became a major factor in controlling, for instance, urban traffic noise in the Netherlands. "The city of din" led to the creation of the portable noise meter to measure decibels, but the urban context also set limits on its utility in noise conflicts between neighbors. Regarding neighborly noise, the tr…
Crying Whenever Monday Comes: Older Unmarried Women in the Netherlands and the Game of Comparison, 1955-1980
The Dutch Women's Action Committee for Early State Pensions advocated the reduction of the retirement age for unmarried women. In doing this, the committee brought forward an image of older unmarried women that was rather different from the self-images the older unmarried women presented in letters and questionnaires sent to the committee. And the image presented by the committee was again different from the image of older unmarried women that em…
Introduction: Long Lives, Silent Witnesses—Elderly Women in the Past
Crying Whenever Monday Comes: Older Unmarried Women in the Netherlands and the Game of Comparison, 1955-1980
The Dutch Women's Action Committee for Early State Pensions advocated the reduction of the retirement age for unmarried women. In doing this, the committee brought forward an image of older unmarried women that was rather different from the self-images the older unmarried women presented in letters and questionnaires sent to the committee. And the image presented by the committee was again different from the image of older unmarried women that em…
Women Walking through Plans: Technology, Democracy, and Gender Identity
"Every house plan I will continue to see as a VAC woman: walking through a plan, in my mind slamming doors and placing cupboards, figuring out where and how I would sleep, wash, cook, relax, and play with children in this situation." So wrote the outgoing chairwoman of one of the Netherlands' Vrouwen Adviescommissies voor de Woningbouw (Women's Advisory Committees on Housing, VACs) in her farewell statement. 1 The quotation captures many ideas th…
The Diabolical Symphony of the Mechanical Age: Technology and Symbolism of Sound in European and North American Noise Abatement Campaigns, 1900-40
New technologies profoundly change our sonic surroundings, the world's soundscape. However, research dealing with the sound of technology is scarce within Science and Technology Studies (S&TS). This study argues that such a silence should be broken, since the sound of technology not only tunes our sonic environment, but has also been a highly controversial aspect of technology loaded with symbolic significance. Research into such a symbolism of s…
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (review)
Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life. By Dolores Hayden. Revised edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. Pp. 286. $15.95
"Should One Applaud?" Breaches and Boundaries in the Reception of New Technology in Music
The debate surrounding the introduction of new musical instruments is examined as a way to elicit norms underlying musical practice and culture. The paper details the introduction of three twentieth century instruments: the player piano, the "noise instruments" of the futurists and the electronic music synthesizer. The responses to these new instruments both among classical performers and in the realm of popular culture reveal how traditional nor…
The City of Din: Decibels, Noise, and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980
Science and technology have played a crucial role in regulating problems resulting from urban overcrowding. In the twentieth century, the decibel became a major factor in controlling, for instance, urban traffic noise in the Netherlands. "The city of din" led to the creation of the portable noise meter to measure decibels, but the urban context also set limits on its utility in noise conflicts between neighbors. Regarding neighborly noise, the tr…
Breaking into a World of Perfection: Innovation in Today’s Classical Musical Instruments
Professional music journals frequently publish descriptions of newly registered patents concerning classical musical instruments. Only a few of the many proposals for innovation actually enter production. The large number of ideas for improving musical instruments such as the violin, the flute and the bassoon contrasts strikingly with the stability of the often age-old design of these instruments. Notably, the instruments of the symphony orchestr…
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (review)
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. By Jonathan Sterne. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. x+450. $69.95/$22.95
What do I do with my tape recorder: Sound hunting and the sounds of everyday Dutch life in the 1950s and 1960s
Sound Studies: New Technologies and Music
Developments in sound technologies over the last 50 years have dramatically changed the way that music is produced and consumed. In the 19th century most music was experienced as live performance. Today most music is listened to individually through technologically mediated devices, such as a personal stereo or a personal computer that enables the downloading of MP3 files over the Internet, and in the past few decades music has been produced with…
Electronic and Computer Music (review)
Reviewed by: Electronic and Computer Music Karin Bijsterveld (bio) Electronic and Computer Music. By Peter Manning. New York: Oxford University Press, rev. ed., 2004. Pp. x+474. $35. Never did I feel the need to visit a website accompanying a book more so than when reading this book about the developments in electronic music after 1945. Whereas one chapter on Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) was sufficient in Peter Manning's first edit…
Listening to machines: Industrial noise, hearing loss and the cultural meaning of sound
Ever since the eighteenth century, physicians have claimed that the noise of hammering and other industrial activities may induce hearing loss. Protecting workers' hearing by the use of earplugs was one of the solutions proposed, particularly after the Second World War. Employees, however, often declined the medics' help. This article examines the role of the cultural meaning of sound in the clash between the expert definitions of the problem of …
Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Since the late nineteenth century, the sounds of technology have been the subject of complaints, regulation, and legislation. By the early 1900s, antinoise leagues in Western Europe and North America had formed to fight noise from factories, steam trains, automobiles, and gramo…
Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices
The series Transformations in Art and Culture is dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary transformations in arts and culture, emphasizing processes of cultural change as they manifest themselves over time, through space, and in various media.Main goal of the series is to examine the effects of globalization, commercialization and technologization on the form, content, meaning and functioning of cultural products and socio-cultural p…
Composing Claims on Musical Instrument Development: A Science and Technology Studies' Contribution
The historiography of musical instrument design has long been dominated by organology: the science of musical instruments and their classification. Recently, however, scholars from Science & Technology Studies (STS) have also taken up the study of musical instrument development. This article reviews the newest organological and STS literature on musical instruments to show which questions and approaches STS has added to the rich work of the organ…
Acoustic Cocooning: How the Car became a Place to Unwind
Since the late 1990s, car manufacturers increasingly underline their cars' interior tranquility Both this acoustic condition and the availability of car audio sets enable drivers to transform their car into a highly personal, controlled and relaxing sonic bubble Yet how could the car, once a noisy contraction, evolve into such a space for acoustic cocooning? This article studies the introduction of car radio and interior car sound design in Europ…
New Keys to the World of Sound
Sound is no longer produced only by humans and nature. New sources of sound such as the ipod and cell phones demonstrate that sounds have become personal and mobile. New sounds such as those of industrialization, automobile engine, and electronic sounds have entered the “soundscape”. Sounds can be captured in new ways, which are becoming a part of everyday life. The consequences of all of this are vast. Sound becomes more materially mediated in a…
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms. The book considers sounds and music as experienced in such diverse settings as shop floors, laboratories, clinics, design studios, homes, and clubs, across an impressively broad range of historical periods and national and cultural contexts. Science has traditionally been understood as a visual matter, a study…
Sound and Safe: A History of Listening Behind the Wheel
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving
Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage
ing »sensescapes« of cities in particular, even though sound is only one of the sensorial experiences under study. 17 From these studies we know that many conflicts about sound have involved issues of power and the right to dominate some environment with specific sounds or, conversely, to free a setting from such sounds.The urban campaigns in the late 1800s by the intellectual elite against street musicians, for instance, were an expression not o…
Soundscapes of the Urban Past
We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing…
Sounds Convincing: Modes of Listening and Sonic Skills in Knowledge Making
This article investigates the role of listening in the knowledge making practices of Western scientists, engineers, and physicians from the 1920s onwards. It does so by offering a two-dimensional typology of the modes of listening that they employ. Distinguishing between two dimensions allows us to make sense both of the purpose and of the ways in which scientists, engineers, and physicians have listened to their objects of study; and it also all…
Beyond Echoic Memory
Research Article| November 01 2015 Beyond Echoic Memory: Introduction to the Special Issue on Auditory History Karin Bijsterveld Karin Bijsterveld Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2015) 37 (4): 7–13. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2015.37.4.7 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tool…
Ears-on Exhibitions
Between March 2013 and November 2014, the Amsterdam Museum had an installation that enabled visitors to compare a recent soundscape recording of the Dam Square with simulations of how the Dam sounded in 1895 and 1935. Constructing these simulations involved virtual acoustics software, recordings of historical artifacts, and research into the urban past. This paper critically discusses how the installation was made and received by comparing the ac…
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