Sonic phenomenologies studies how we experience sound. Our research questions how sound influences our experiences, how sound communicates and what it means to us. Our work explores soundscapes of the everyday (those in the world around us), as well as sounds within music, art and cinema.
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Future Sounds
What can the sounds of today tell us about the future? Can an analysis of sound and sonic practices allow us to make reliable predictions in relation to wider social phenomena? And what might they tell us about technology in a world where futurology is such a frenzied and busy field? In order to answer…
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Chaos Media
The contemporary media landscape might be described in simple terms as a digital terrain where real and virtual worlds collide. Stephen Kennedy investigates the concept of our digital space leading up to the digital turn of the 1990s to fully understand how our perceptions of orientation in space in time was altered. Chaos Media: A…
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Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound Image Media
An AHRC Funded Project which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual Audiovisual Space: Recontextualising Sound-Image Media, is an AHRC Funded Leadership Fellowship project led by Dr Andrew Knight-Hill, which aims to investigate if spatial thinking can provide new understandings of the audiovisual. The project engages a combination of ethnographic interviews with…
