In and out of the sound studio

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra McCartney
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Radio Art ◽  
Music Audio ◽  
Canadian Research

This article reports on the first phase of a four-year, multi-university Canadian research project called ‘In and Out of the Studio’. The intention of this project is to study the experiences and working practices of women sound producers in Canada, and to produce a multimedia computer installation and set of articles about their ideas, approaches and philosophies. We are studying gender issues that affect the work of these women in areas as diverse as film sound recording and post-production, sound engineering, radio art, performance art, experimental music, audio documentary production, and web sound. This is a wide range of disciplines, with their associated professional formations. What links the experiences of these diverse cultural workers is their focus on organising sound, and their gender. The first phase of the research focuses on formations: the following phase will concentrate on working practices through a discussion and analysis of specific recent works produced by the participants. The second part of this article explores the working processes of Hildegard Westerkamp in her composition of Gently Penetrating Beneath the Sounding Surfaces of Another Place (1997), through an interview with Westerkamp conducted in 1997. This interview will be used as a model for the in-depth studio interviews in the present study.

A missing municipalist legacy: The GLC and the changing cultural politics of Southbank Centre

Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (74) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Kathy Williams
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
History Of ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Participatory Arts

This article analyses key moments in the cultural history of Southbank Centre and focuses on two important legacies, one which is widely celebrated and the other marginalised. It discusses the 1951 Festival of Britain and the ways in which this heritage permeates recent and current working practices at Southbank Centre, and compares this to the mostly silenced legacy of the policies of Ken Livingstone's GLC towards participatory arts and accessible public space. Drawing on a wide range of interviews, it argues that Livingstone's GLC's radical arts policies and high profile funding galvanised participatory arts at Southbank Centre, and the launch of the Open Foyer Policy in 1983 promoted democratic access to the site. This historical example of the potential of municipalism is mostly missing from discourses of cultural workers for Southbank Centre today. The prevailing silence on this period of municipal socialism is part of a wider silencing of alternatives to neoliberal capitalism.

Acoustic Art Forms in the Age of Recordability

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-206
Author(s):  
Gerald Fiebig
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radio Art

Many theoretical accounts of sound art tend to treat it as a subcategory of either music or visual art. I argue that this dualism prevents many works of sound art from being fully appreciated. My subsequent attempt of finding a basis for a more comprehensive aesthetic of acoustic art forms is helped along by Trevor Wishart’s concept of ‘sonic art’. I follow Wishart’s insight that the status of music was changed by the invention of sound recording and go on to argue that an even more important ontological consequence of recording was the new possibility of storing and manipulating any acoustic event. This media-historic condition, which I refer to as ‘recordability’, spawned three distinct art forms with different degrees of abstraction – electroacoustic music in the tradition of Pierre Schaeffer, gallery-oriented sound art and radiogenic Ars Acustica. Introducing Ars Acustica, or radio art, as a third term provides some perspective on the music/sound art binarism. A brief look at the history of radio art aims at substantiating my claim that all art forms based on recordable sounds can be fruitfully discussed by appreciating their shared technological basis and the multiplicity of their reference systems rather than by subsuming one into another.

Discursive study of Orthodox religious identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor' Yurasov ◽  
Ol'ga Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
The Russian Federation

Considers the problem of the Orthodox religious identity from the point of view of the influence of five types of discourse, widely represented in the Orthodox semiotic picture of the world: philosophical, mythological, artistic, political and ideological. Selected types of religious identity: normative, marginalized, and folkloristically, and determined what type of discourse most pragmatically strongly influences the formation of a type of Orthodox identity. The authors come to the conclusion about the existence in the Russian Federation "rural" and "urban" Orthodox discourses. The first leads to the development of social strain in the area of religious identity and is the base of the formation polarisierung religious identity. The second sets the normative Orthodox identity, avoiding archaism and development of the centaur-ideas. This study was conducted in part supported by RFBR, research project No. 18-011-00164 on "Discursive study of religious identity." Designed for a wide range of sociologists, philologists, cultural studies and religious studies, as well as for a wide circle of readers interested in questions of religion.

scholarly journals A Feeling for Systems Development Work: - Design of the ROSA Project

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (246) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Bødker ◽  
Joan Greenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Systems Development ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Working Practices

<p>This article is based on the design of a research project that will look at intuition, learning processes, language and roles in the development of computer systems. The research project, called ROSA (a Danish acronym for Roles and Cooperation in Systems Development) grew out of our interest in the informal working practices among systems developers, because it is these informal working relationships that are most often overlooked in research about computer science methods and tools.</p><p>The project applies a gender perspective to look at the informal work relations of systems developers. The concept of a gender perspective means that we do not intend to look for, or prove, the existence of differences between men and women, but rather to use gender awareness to ''listen to'' and get a ''feeling for'' how systems developers work together. Our research methods are interdisciplinary and based on action-oriented, participatory methods that help system developers reflect on their own working practices.</p>

scholarly journals MAKING GENDER A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION - A MISSION (IM) POS-SIBLE IN THE 21TH CENTURY?! STUDENTS OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES AS AN EXAMPLE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ACADEMIA

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113
Author(s):  
Sabine Klinger ◽  
Ines Findenig
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Educational Science ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Educational Studies

Higher education is supposed to create open-minded graduates within social topics. General assump-tions about educational science transfer a quiet sensitive picture across in particular gender issues and the awareness of gender inequalities. In contrast to other disciplines, scientific debates about gender issues do have a long tradition, even if not always thematised as such. The curriculum of educational science offers a wide range of so called gender-seminars, where students can spend time on gender related topics and the awareness of gender equality. Women are overrepresented among educational students and regarding to a “new deal for young women” (McRobbie 2009), which may influence the way young woman and men think about the importance of gender-related topics, the question about the relevance of gender and gender issues for the discipline of educational studies often remains vague. According to this following research questions arose: how do students of educational science discuss gender issues, how does a de-articulation form gender issues, and how is rhetoric equality produced among university students of educational science. The data are based on a qualitative empirical survey composed of four group discussions carried out with 14 university students of educational studies from German speaking universities. The aim was to reconstruct and analyse both - an individual and collective - understanding or interpretations regarding gender issues. The findings of this study have revealed that the reflection of gender issues and talking about gender is somehow caught between gender equality, difference and usurpation. This takes into account the mechanisms and masking effects of neoliberal activation. Deliberations about how educational studies can handle these challenges should imply a gender-reflected understanding of learning and educational processes. Key words: gender, de-examination of gender issues, higher education, university students

scholarly journals All Parts of the Same Thing: Dispatches from the Creativity Everything Lab

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gauntlett ◽  
Mary Kay Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Multiple Media

We established the Creativity Everything Lab at Ryerson University in 2018 as a place that would support and unlock “all kinds of creativity for all kinds of people.” In this article, we detail the transdisciplinary roots of our work and outline some of our activities and the thinking behind them. As a team of researchers developing projects and experiences that embrace a wide range of creators and creative practices, we are fashioning the lab to facilitate the actions of doing and making in a range of spheres: in everyday life, professional creative practice, and in learning and research. Three case studies – our ongoing efforts at supporting learning for students, a research project on platforms for creativity, and the community outreach of the 2019 Creativity Everything #FreeSchool – explore how teaching, research, events, and collaborations in multiple media intersect in a multifaceted system for relating to, and engaging with, creativity. Our studies suggest that creative practice as research helps people make connections that fuel curiosity and experimentation. We argue that engaging in multiple perspectives of the “everything” of creativity better equips our students, university, and public to reap its benefits and rewards.

The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Daniel Dennett ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Daniel C. Dennett began publishing innovative philosophical research in the late 1960s, and he has continued doing so for the past 45 years. He has addressed questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, the possibility of freedom, and the significance of evolution to addressing questions across the cognitive, biological, and social sciences. This book explores the intellectual significance of this research project, bringing together the insights of 11 researchers who are currently working on themes that are relevant to Dennett’s philosophical worldview. Some of the contributions address interpretive issues within Dennett’s corpus, and they aim to bring increased clarity to Dennett’s project. Others report novel empirical data, at least in part, in the service of fleshing out Dennett’s claims. Some of them provide a fresh take on a Dennettian theme, and others extend his views in novel directions. Like Dennett’s own work, these papers draw on a wide range of different methodologies, from appeals to intuition pumps and scientific data, to turning the knobs on a theory to see what it can do. But each of them aims to be readable, and approachable. And as a whole, the volume provides a critical and constructive overview of Dennett’s stance-based methodology, as well as explorations of his claims about metal representation, consciousness, cultural evolution, and religion.

Making a bricolage: An immanent process of experimentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 146394911985937
Author(s):  
Nina Odegard
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Recycled Materials ◽  
Early Childhood Research ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hierarchical Relationships ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Early Childhood Pedagogy

This article draws on a new materialist paradigm to explore bricolaging data from an early childhood research project through an immanent ethical lens. This lens enables the researcher to stretch towards non-hierarchical relationships in between subjects and objects, thinking and doing. A bricoleur explores and builds different knowledge-production pathways, allowing experimentation with a wide range of methods and theoretical perspectives. The argument presented here is that bricolaging data could be a non-hierarchical tool through which the researcher considers materiality and artefacts as intra-active participators. Empirical matter – such as videos, photographs, dialogue transcripts, scribblings, sounds, vibrations, bodies and recycled materials – becomes visible through several reviews and rereadings. Here, the bricoleur explores how various data can be read by bricolaging it together, resulting in several narratives that may disrupt and challenge dominant discourses and present alternative perspectives in early childhood pedagogy.

scholarly journals Afraid to leave the house: issues leading to social exclusion and loneliness for people with a learning disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-175
Author(s):  
Liz Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disability ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

Purpose Tackling social exclusion, which can lead to social isolation and loneliness, is an important current issue. People with a learning disability have a right to be full members of their communities, yet often experience social exclusion. Community connections play a key role in people developing reciprocal relationships. It is therefore important to know the barriers to full inclusion. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach This paper builds on an inclusive research project exploring these issues (Mooney et al., 2019) and aims to place that study’s main findings in a broader academic, policy and practice context. Findings Whilst there is a wide range of literature about social exclusion, lack of friendships and loneliness experienced by people with a learning disability, there is a gap in knowledge regarding some of the specific social barriers that prevent wider social inclusion, and therefore opportunities to make and keep friends. Originality/value This paper relates the findings of an inclusive research project to the current literature. It identifies the social barriers that limit community involvement and draws on the experience of people with a learning disability to find possible ways forward.

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