We are pleased to announce details of Oxford Music Faculty’s final Graduate Research Colloquium of term—'Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science Technology and the Arts’. This will take place both online and in person on 30th November (5.15-6.30pm), and will feature Gascia Ouzounian in conversation with Isobel Anderson. All are welcome to attend.

An abstract and biographies can be found below, and booking for Zoom attendance can be found at the following link: https://forms.gle/8iWQCBwWxHvsR6oY9<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://forms.gle/8iWQCBwWxHvsR6oY9&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1638096835176000&usg=AOvVaw2F6-LbZx2_PsnqX1ouvR5y> . For further details, visit https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/graduate-research-colloquium-2021-11-30/ . We look forward to seeing you there!

With warmest wishes,

Dylan Price
Co-Convenor, Music Faculty Graduate Research Colloquia

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Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science Technology and the Arts

The relationship between sound and space has become central to both creative practices in music and sound art and contemporary scholarship on sound. Entire subfields have emerged in connection to the spatial aspects of sound, from spatial audio and sound installation to acoustic ecology and soundscape studies. But how did our understanding of sound become spatial? In Stereophonica, described as ‘an extraordinary journey through the archaeology of acoustic and auditory spatialization’ (Aura Satz), Gascia Ouzounian examines a series of historical episodes that transformed ideas of sound and space, from the advent of stereo technologies in the nineteenth century to visual representations of sonic environments today.

Developing a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective, Ouzounian draws on both the history of science and technology and the history of music and sound art. She investigates the early science of auditory space perception; examines the development of military technologies for sound location during World War I; revisits experiments in stereo sound at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1930s; and considers the relationship between Muzak and sonic warfare in the 1940s. She explores the development of multichannel “spatial music” in the 1950s and sound installation art in the 1960s; analyzes sound maps and noise maps; and investigates contemporary approaches to sonic urbanism. Mara Mills writes, ‘Ouzounian traces the propagation of ideas and tools from science to war to art (and back again) with true virtuosity.’

For this colloquium, Gascia Ouzounian will be joined in conversation by Isobel Anderson, founder of The Female DIY Musician and host of the critically acclaimed podcast Girls Twiddling Knobs.



Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, where she directs the 5-year European Research Council-funded project Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism<https://www.soncities.org/>. Since 2013 Ouzounian has co-directed the research group Recomposing the City, which brings together sound artists, architects, and urban planners in developing interdisciplinary approaches to urban sound studies and urban sonic practices. Recent projects include Scoring the City<http://scoring.city/> (2020), for which architects and artists were invited to create ‘urban scores’ responding to sites in four cities, and Acoustic Cities: London and Beirut<https://www.optophono.com/acousticcitieslondonbeirut> (2019), for which ten artists created works responding to the acoustic conditions of London and Beirut. Ouzounian’s articles on sound art, urban sound, and music technologies have been published in leading journals of music, art, and architecture. She is the author of Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (MIT Press 2021).

Isobel Anderson is a musician, artist, and host of Girls Twiddling Knobs<https://femalediymusician.com/gtkpodcast>, a critically acclaimed, Lovie Award shortlisted podcast for and about women making music with technology. Anderson’s self-produced and self-released music has amassed over 25 million Spotify streams<https://open.spotify.com/artist/1tUN2f2byOej4LZdDq1UO9>. Founder of The Female DIY Musician, an online resource helping women learn vital recording and production skills, Anderson was recently shortlisted for the TechWomen100 Champion Award. Anderson holds a PhD in Sonic Arts from Queen’s University Belfast, and she has published in academic journals including Organised Sound<https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/thoughts-in-the-field-selfreflexive-narrative-in-field-recording/1944D2C6630851B407F4005B47A7ED1B> and The Journal of Sonic Studies<https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/234645/234646>.



About the series:
The Colloquia feature leading figures, as well as younger scholars, from across the world. They present their research in papers on all kinds of music-related topics. Graduate students Marinu Leccia and Dylan Price organise the series. Presentations are followed by a discussion and virtual drinks reception. Free and open to all Music Faculty students and members. Most events are in hybrid in-person (Lecture Room B)/online format – please follow sign-up link for attendance in person and online. If you would like more information, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.

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