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DEGEM News – FWD – [ak-discourse] Call for (Audio) Papers: Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds, Seismograf Peer

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Call for (Audio) Papers: Sound and the More-Than-Human Worlds

Seismograf Peer

Abstract deadline: 1 October 2024

Seismograf Peer invites proposals for audio papers (see below for outline and forms of audio paper, etc.) exploring how sound mediates relations with the human and the more-than-human worlds. As such, we intend a wide range of interpretations
as to what the more-than-human is, not limiting the definition to other animals, but embracing all kinds of living and non-living phenomena. A focus on the more-than-human also affords a decentering of the anthropocentric bias of much traditional scholarship.
This may entail approaches that include animist beliefs as well as a wide range of artistic practices and research methods. Proposals may address, but should not be limited to, topics such as

listening practices
inter-species communication
acoustic ecology and bioacoustics
animism
technologies and AI
mythologies of the more-than-human
inter-subjective relations with non-human as well as human beings
psychogeographies
narratives and art related to climate change and ecosystems
urban soundscapes
place-making, including participatory and autoethnographic approaches.

We welcome proposals building on various kinds of knowledge production across the arts and sciences, which may address the role of sound from historical, creative, and socio-cultural perspectives.

Audio papers could build on field-recordings or pre-existing artistic work, such as sound walks, radiophonic art works, audio documentary, site-specific art and installations, in combination with theoretical perspectives, and shall critically
and creatively interrogate the boundaries between artistic and academic practices. Proposals may explore the specific epistemologies of sonic as opposed to written forms of presentation. Papers should critically engage, where relevant, with post-colonial and
indigenous perspectives related to the more-than-human, opening routes to a decolonization of knowledge.

Editors of special issue

Stefan Östersjö

Professor of Music Performance and head of subject at Piteå School of Music, Luleå University of Technology

stefan.ostersjo[at]ltu.se

Bennett Hogg
Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, UK .
bennett.hogg[at]newcastle.ac.uk

Federico Visi
Assistant lecturer at Luleå University of Technology
federico.visi[at]associated.ltu.se

Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
Postdoctoral fellow at the Intelligent Instruments Lab at the University of Iceland
hallasteinunn[at]gmail.com

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AUDIO PAPERS

ABSTRACT

Deadline
October 1, 2024

Required elements
Audio abstract, 60-90 sec.
Written abstract, 150-200 words
Bibliography
Biographies for all authors

Please transfer / send audio file (MP3) and the abstract file including bibliography and biography (Word) to peer[at]seismograf.org

Editorial response

After editorial review of the received abstracts, a selection of authors will be invited to send in audio papers.

AUDIO PAPER

Deadline
December 16, 2024

Required elements

Audio paper, length 12-15 minutes
Written abstract, 150-200 words
Bibliography, Style guide: Harvard Standard
Biographies for all authors, max. 100 words for each author. Portraits are welcome, but optional (please include photo credit)

FORMAT OF THE AUDIO PAPER

The audio paper is a 12-15 minute-long audio production presenting a research question or focus. The audio paper combines speech and narratives with “sonic argumentation” which can be composed through sound recordings, sound productions or
any other sound practices, voice practices, the audible use of one’s body, everyday tools, gadgets, musical instruments, computer software or all kinds of objects and agents. All audio papers are being peer reviewed by reviewers within the given field. The
reviewers are asked to assess after these guidelines: A clear and contextualized research question / focus of exploration; a clear and vivid argumentation and exploration of the research question / focus; meaningful and original use of sound as medium and
content to support, present and anesthetize the argumentation; coherence between dramaturgical composition (tempo, density, narrative structure) and content; appropriate references in the accompanying text (abstract and bibliography) and/or in the audio production.

Please visit seismograf.org/fokus/fluid-sounds for further thoughts on and examples of audio papers.

All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Submitted contributions must be original and not have been previously published or submitted
elsewhere during the review process.

SUBMISSION

Please send/transfer the audio paper file (MP3) with the abstract file including bibliography and biography (Word) to peer[at]seismograf.org no later than December 16, 2024

ABOUT SEISMOGRAF PEER

Seismograf Peer is a peer-reviewed online platform devoted to practical and theoretical issues in relation to contemporary music and sound art. Seismograf Peer covers a broad range of topics including sonic materialities, modes of listening,
philosophy of sound and music, aesthetics, technology and audiovisuality as well as performative, curatorial and archival matters related to the sonic arts.

Seismograf Peer encourages a wide spread of methodologies and theoretical discourses, ranging from the more established academic approaches such as sound studies, musicology, cultural studies and performance studies to artistic research,
practice-based research, artist writing and media archaeology.

Seismograf Peer is hosted by Seismograf, a Danish magazine with a long and proud tradition of publishing essays, interviews and reviews by music journalists and critics as well as academics and composers, acting as an inspiring and important
platform within the field. Seismograf Peer is a natural development of this tradition, acknowledging the demands of publication within universities, music academies and art schools.