Hearing Space: Sound Technologies, Waves, and Noises
A fleeting chirp is the latest rendering of the sound caused by a collision of two black holes. A ripple in the universe over a billion years ago. A disturbance...
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Colombian Audiovisual Memory in YouTube
Among all the metaphors that can be used to understand YouTube, I choose the one of an archive because it allows me to explore the relation between media and me...
The Sound of Chip Tunes in ATX
The blasting sound of 8-bit sound waves is electrifying. Sounds crafted in retro waveform generators such as the one of the Comodore 64 and the Gameboy, can be ...
Music and Humor : The Cartoon Music Aesthetic of Carl Stalling
Although the power of music to elicit emotions has been widely recognized, the capacity of music to produce laugher has been relatively unexplored. First of all...
Sound, Space and Symmetry
Have you ever been in a concert where the pieces are played twice? Have you ever been in a museum which galleries have been turned into performance stages? Have...
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...
Peelander Z : Performing Comic Action Punk in the 21st Century
“We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium...