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There are a few places left on this workshop. If you would like to attend please contact the organiser, Dr Annie Jamieson, University of Leeds ([log in to unmask]).
 
Audible Concerns: hearing risk, hearing protection and technology in the sound and music industries – a one day interdisciplinary workshop
Wednesday 3 June 2015, 10:00 – 16:30
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
 
Audible Concerns is a research project exploring the history of hearing risk and hearing protection in the music and sound industries, showing how our understandings of the potential risks to hearing have developed, how, when and why various technological responses have emerged and how these solutions have been accepted (or not).
 
The research focusses on the professionals who both produce the music that can potentially damage hearing and also often serve as role models for music fans, especially the young, who may also be at risk. Musicians and sound engineers also present an interesting case in occupational health since they face the dilemma that, whilst the very sense that underpins their creative and professional lives can be damaged through their work, there are also concerns that use of hearing protection might compromise the fine aural discrimination required to do their jobs effectively. An understanding of the attitudes and behaviour of these groups towards hearing risk and protection is therefore an essential element of the project.
 
This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers and stakeholders to come together to exchange ideas and explore the issues around hearing risk and music, to discover how academic research might best engage with and assist the sector and to inform ongoing research and facilitate the development of future working relationships. Participants might include academic researchers (including post-graduate students) in a range of disciplines (including but by no means limited to STS, History of Science, Psychology, Psychoacoustics, Music, Musicology, Sociology, Disability Studies), working sound engineers and musicians, manufacturers of amplification and hearing protection equipment, educators and students in music and sound technology, venue management, authors of policy documents, occupational health professionals, clinical audiologists.
 
The workshop will take the following format:
  1. Short presentations from selected participants from different sectors to illustrate the range of perspectives on the topic.
  2. Guided group discussions based on pre-circulated themes that will be generated from responses to an online survey that has been carried out to collect information on professionals’ attitudes and behaviour with respect to hearing risk and hearing protection.
  3. Round table discussions based on broad questions and concerns (to be established in advance by consulting participants) and on the potential for collaborations and future funding bids.
 
This event is funded by the Cultural & Creative Industries Exchange, University of Leeds
and supported by Opera North/DARE
 
There is no registration fee and refreshments will be provided throughout the day but, unfortunately, we cannot cover your travel costs. Please forward this message to any colleagues who may be interested.
 
Thanks
 
Dr Annie Jamieson
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Philosophy, Religion and  History of Science University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
 
Tel: 0113 343 0463