School of Media Studies Student + Alumni Networking Social

Tuesday, March 11th – 6:30pm – 8:30pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor If you are interested in a career in media, the best way to start is to network!  The School of Media Studies and The Office of Career Development invite you to attend the Student + Alumni Networking Social, featuring an alumni panel.… Read More »

TNS’s Musical History + Event Feb. 24

Barry discovered that 79 5th Avenue, the new home of the School of Media Studies, was once the home of Edison Records’ “New York Recording Department.” Through 1929 the company’s studios were located on the 18th floor — the roof — just two floors above where SMS is now. And according to Anna Outridge,  a… Read More »

Snow Day + Schedule Alterations

Classes have been canceled on February 13 due to snow. We’ll simply push back all of our lessons by one week.  So, on February 20 we’ll address “Sounding Bodies.” Next week’s class — and all subsequent classes — will meet on campus, in 55 W 13th St., Room 909. (We can explain the Dumbo Media… Read More »

Call for Papers – Audio Mostly

Audio Mostly 2014 — Call for papers Deadline for paper submission – May 9, 2014 Audio in all its forms holds tremendous potential for interaction design. Sound can engage, inform, convey narrative, dramatize, create attention, affection and adventure. However, the abilities to interact with computer systems through and with sound are still not sufficiently explored.… Read More »

Sterne on the “Sonic Imagination” + the “Audiovisual Litany”

Jonathan Sterne calls, in the intro to his Sound Studies Reader, for “sonic imagination” – drawing from C. Wright Mills’s “sociological imagination” and Anne Balsamo’s “technological imagination” T.S. Eliot: “‘The auditory imagination’ is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, for penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word; sinking to the… Read More »

“Sexing Sound: Music Cultures, Audio Practices, and Contemporary Art” Symposium, 2/21

Sexing Sound: Music Cultures, Audio Practices, and Contemporary Art Symposium @ CUNY Grad Center, February 21 @ Martin E. Segal Theatre Regine Basha, Mark Beasley, Anya Bernstein, Maria Chavez, Cathy Lane, Annea Lockwood, Barbara London, Ellie Hisama, Peter Hitchcock, Anne Hilde Neset, Kristin Norderval, Xaviera Simmons,Valerie Tevere, Siona Wilson, JD Samson Pop and rock music has long been an important forum for experimentation with gendered performance, audience identification, and… Read More »

Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores, 2/6 – 3/8

@ James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets Free and open to the public Hours: Tue-Thu 12-7pm, Fri-Sat 12-6pm Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores will bring together a selection of audio, flyers, scores, documentation of performances, and zines of women’s sound work in the last two decades with… Read More »

Sing, Yell, Tell @ New Museum, 2/23 @ 3pm

This public panel brings together experts who will discuss the notion of voice, from technical concerns to political potential to affective possibilities. This is the beginning of a full Season exploration of VOICE, ranging from the relationships between vocal performers and engaged audiences to voice as agency in political work. Is there a connection between the… Read More »

The Stranger That Is Next to Me: Call for Radio Projects, Due 2/21

via Journal of Sonic Studies A collaboration between Echoes & Brandon LaBelle  ECHOES is a program of events for the city of Lisbon that aims to put together thoughts, experiences and interventions on the relationship between LISTENING and PLACE. Part of this program is a series of curated radio broadcasts. We want to rethink and increase the radio role in the… Read More »