Sound Studies Lab

Tomorrow, on Tuesday 22/10, 15.15CEST, Lucy Cathcart Frödén (Postdoc, University of Oslo, NOR) - who recently started her time as a.g guest researcher with the Sound Studies Lab at KU - joins us on Zoom to speak about her research on aspects of carceral listening.

Through short vignettes from collaborative research encounters in Scotland (through the Distant Voices project), Norway and Ireland (through the Prisons of Note project), her presentation will explore some of the paradoxes and tensions in prison-based music projects, and ask:

how might we understand attentive listening as an ethical intervention in this context?

Join us (zoomlink can be found directly on the webpage!)

https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/sound-studies-lab/calendar/2024/carceral-listening/

Next week, on Tuesday 8/10, 15.15CEST, Paulus von Horne joins us on Zoom to speak about their research on an alternative trajectory in voice technology by resurrecting and cloning the distinctly artificial voices of 70s and 80s home computers.

Is it possible to embrace these "unnatural" voices and thereby to transcend the tech industry's relentless pursuit of "natural" synthetic speech, which encodes binary gender norms?

Join us (zoomlink can be found directly on the webpage!)

Embracing Unnaturalness Presenter: Paulus van Horne (PhD, University of Boulder, Colorado, USA).