PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES EMILIE STROH The talk will guide you through sound and noise's different impact on physiological and psychological health and wellbeing.How, where and to what kind of noise are we exposed? How will this affect our current, and future, health? What are the noise effects for the society, population and individual?Why do we experience noise and sounds differen

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/physiological-and-psychological-impact-sound-and-noise - 2025-07-25

PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES MERI KYTÖ This lecture will tackle themes of listening and sensory agency in everyday spaces that are affected or produced by code. We will examine issues of sensory experience, attention and distraction in relation to different kinds of media technologies and machine listening. See the lecture MERI KYTÖ Meri Kytö is a senior researcher and an adjunct profe

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/talk-machine-listening-smart-spaces - 2025-07-25

Research support and incentive funding The Sound Environment Centre regularly (normally 1-2 times per year) grants incentive funding to support researchers and employees at Lund University in broadening their knowledge in the field of sound and sound environment. Current calls are published on this page. At the moment, no calls for applications is open.On the page below you will find a list of pre

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research-and-funding - 2025-07-25

WELCOME TO SIT DOWN ON THE SOUND BENCH The sound work "Taking Seat" by Robert Willim, will be experienced from a specially designed ‘sound bench’ placed outside Skissernas Museum. Combining manipulations of words and field recordings the work reflects practices of sitting. What are the forces set in motion by sitting? What are the technologies and techniques of sitting? Anthropologists argue that

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/taking-seat - 2025-07-25

Sound Installation by Tove Möller. Skissernas Museum, Lund, October 12–18 2020. Tove Möller has been inspired by the justice movement towards giving a legal right status to water. Rivers in New Zealand, Bangladesh, India and Colombia have gained these rights the past years but how their voices will be expressed is not yet fully clear. The Ocean, the Mire, the Brook, the Plash and the River are gat

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/light-flowing-circumstances - 2025-07-25

PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA FROM THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE The Sound Environment Centre’s publications are published in a publication series. Our published works include seminar proceedings and research reports. The texts in the report series are produced in connection with interdisciplinary seminars organised by the centre on matters concerning sound and sound environments in our society. Most of o

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/communication - 2025-07-25

Book Launch: Negotiating Noise Subversion in sound arts Listening to Everyday Sounds The Sound Bench: The Garden The Sound Bench: Wave The Sound Bench: Metamorphosis An Attuning Approach to Sound Art and Design in Public Spaces Exploring visual art auditively Sonic affordances : the perception of density and calm in Indian cities Publication: Negotiating Noise Traces of Sound

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021 - 2025-07-25

What is sound when it is not perceived as audible? How does it affect us? What can it tell us and reveal? And how do you investigate it? At a half-day seminar with invited speakers, the Sound Environment Center at Lund University, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, focuses on "inaudible" sound. We will hear about music archeology's

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/traces-sound - 2025-07-25

Postal AddressThe Sound Environment Centre at Lund UniversityDepartment of Arts and Cultural SciencesBox 192221 00 LundSwedenInternal mailing code at Lund University: 30  Visiting AddressDepartment of Arts and Cultural Sciences, LUXHouse C, level 3: Department of Arts and Cultural SciencesHelgonavägen 3Lund, Sweden  DirectorPhilip Doddsdirector [at] lmc [dot] lu [dot] se (director[at]lmc[dot]lu[do

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For several years Jonna Hägg has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. In many landscapes, anthropophony dominates and drowns out the sounds of nature. Everything we build, our machines, engines and houses create new sounds that are integrated into the

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/garden - 2025-07-25

VISUALISATION OF SOUND IN SOCIETY, RESEARCH, ART & MUSIC 2019-05-24 Sound Environment Centre's "See the Sound - visualisation of sound in society, research, art & music" seminar Visual representations of sound have become both important and common with the digitization of sound and signal processing and is today a tool for managing and studying the world of sound. Visual representations of sound a

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2019/see-sound - 2025-07-25

THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE’S PUBLICATION SERIES The Sound Environment Centre’s publications are published in a publication series. All our publications can be downloaded at OBLU (Open Books at Lund University). Link to OBLU The texts in the report series are produced in connection with interdisciplinary seminars organised by the centre on matters concerning sound and sound environments in our so

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/media/publications - 2025-07-25

FREE ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: MAY 20 - MAY 21, 2021 The symposium brings together researchers, cultural workers, and artists to address topics around the auditive exploration of art, the use of sound, etc. in the context of visual primacy. It will include presentations of existing, ongoing and planned projects, and shall particularly give room to the discussion of related challenges and possibilities. Ex

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/exploring-visual-art-auditively-art-language-and-sounds-museums-and-culture - 2025-07-25

PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Marie Koldkjær Højlund Webinar 22 september 13:15-15:00 "Working with sound design, music composition and sound art in various public spaces and across art forms call for an ecological and enactive methodology entailing investigations of actors and their interrelations with their respective environments as attuning and explorative agents. Based on my Ph.D.

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/attuning-approach-sound-art-and-design-public-spaces - 2025-07-25

WHAT DOES THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE DO? The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University is an interdisciplinary centre focused on initiating, coordinating and stimulating interdisciplinary research on sound and sound environments and how people and society are impacted by these. The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University was established in March 2005. The centre is the first of its kind, b

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/organisation - 2025-07-25

Talk to the machine: listening to smart spaces In Light of Flowing Circumstances Politics of Sound & Ethics of Listening in Urban Dance Music and the Public Sphere Negotiating Noise - Malaysia The physiological and psychological impact of sound and noise Underwater sounds - sonic perspectives on oceanic ecologies Introduction to acoustic concepts relevant to sound studies The Sound Bench: Taking S

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020 - 2025-07-25

PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Marcel Cobussen Webinar 29 september 14:15-16:00 "I will speak of two projects I'm working on: The first one is an e-pub on everyday sounds and sonic materialism, comprising of a collection of brief texts, soundfiles, and photos, and the second one consists of reports on the potential sonic improvement of seven public spaces in the city center of Rotterdam.

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/listening-everyday-sounds - 2025-07-25

PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Christine Guillebaud Webinar 10 november 13:15-15:00 "I am an anthropologist of sound milieus’. By milieu, I mean a composite world made up of sounds produced, perceived, and listened to either intentionally or coincidentally. This simple definition, centred on the idea of experienced ‘sound worlds’, is inscribed in a wider anthropological undertaking. Vehi

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/sonic-affordances-perception-density-and-calm-indian-cities - 2025-07-25

PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Cathy Lane Webinar 3 November 13:15-15:00 "This presentation is part of a wider research project into the ways in which contemporary sound artists are re-cycling existing material – real and imaginary - in this case song, in order to subvert the listeners’ habitual responses and highlight hitherto ignored, unnoticed or unknown elements attached to that song

https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/subversion-sound-arts-your-dna-sound-arts-and-song - 2025-07-25

The Sound Bench is a custom-made bench for sound art in the public space, created by Jonas Wahlström after an idea by the sound art company Audiorama. The Sound Bench is currently located in the northeast corner of the UB park in Lund (outside the auditorium of the Centre for Languages and Literature). The Sound Bench plays specially commissioned sound works on various themes. At the bottom of thi

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