[Air-L] Sonic Spaces webinar on 'Sound & Technology' -- December 2nd

[Jennifer O'Meara]

*With Apologies for Crossposting *



I'm pleased to share the next event in the *Sonic* *Spaces* *webinar series*,
in conjunction with the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research
Institute
<https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/media/news/articles/2020-11-02-Sonic-Spaces.php>
. The second webinar on *Sound & Technology* may be of interest to list
members.



Date: Wednesday, 2nd December, 7–8pm (UTC), on Zoom. Please register here.
<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tiG9M4L-SvOPmVjRkEk13g>


Event description:



Wind-up music boxes; phonograph cylinders; gramophones; microphones; radio;
magnetic tape; compact discs; MP3 players; synthetic voices. These are just
a few of the sound technologies that have framed our experience of
listening since the 19th century until the present day. And while
audio transmission and recording processes have increasingly moved from
analogue to digital systems, the cross-disciplinary nature of sound
technologies remains. Frequently dependent on the technical expertise of
audio engineers, such technologies heavily shape the media industries and,
indeed, our daily lives.

This event will bring together a diverse panel of experts to discuss their
experiences of employing sound technologies in creative ways: *Enda
Bates*, deputy
director of Trinity’s Music and Media Technologies programme, who will
discuss his use of spatialized audio in 360-degree music videos; *Zeynep
Bulut* (Queen's University Belfast) whose ‘Map A Voice’ sound art project
included the re-assembling of voices using an auto-composer code; *Mattia
Cobianchi* (Goldsmiths University and acoustic engineer at Bowers &
Wilkins) on his historical sound project ‘London Street Noises’; and *Neasa
Ní Chiarain*, from Trinity’s Phonetics & Speech Laboratory, who
will discuss the ABAIR.ie Irish language learning website, and the
development of synthesized voices for Irish.

The panel will be chaired by *Linda Doyle*, Professor of Engineering & The
Arts at Trinity, and the founder Director of the SFI Research Centre
CONNECT, a national research centre focused on telecommunications.



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The ‘Sonic Spaces’ webinar series will run from November 2020-April 2021. The
series aims to consider the creative possibilities of audio and sound
culture as they relate to issues of society, technology, the environment,
and the body. The series will include contributions from researchers and
practitioners working in the Arts & Humanities, Engineering, Architecture
and the Creative Technologies, among others.



Upcoming webinars include:

December 2nd: Sound & Technology

February 10th: Sounds of the Environment

March 10th: Gendered Soundscapes

April 14th: Culture on the Radio



The Sonic Spaces series is organised by Jennifer O’Meara, School of the
Creative Arts, Trinity College Dublin.



Best wishes,
Jennifer


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Dr Jennifer O’Meara
Assistant Professor in Film Studies

Director of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, School of Creative Arts
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland.
jennifer.omeara at tcd.ie

www.tcd.ie/creative-arts