Journal of Sonic Studies

About this portal
The portal is used to publish contributions for the online OA Journal of Sonic Studies, the storage of A/V materials, and the storage of previous issues.
contact person(s):
Marcel Cobussen 
,
Vincent Meelberg 
url:
http://sonicstudies.org/about
Recent Issues
Recent Activities
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JSS Book reviews
(2025)
author(s): Journal of Sonic Studies
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
JSS Book reviews
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Een geluidsbelevingsonderzoek naar de radarpost in Wier
(2025)
author(s): Marcel Cobussen
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Tussen oktober 2023 en juni 2024 hebben Marcel Cobussen (Universiteit Leiden) en Tjeerd Andringa (SoundAppraisal) in opdracht van het Ministerie van Defensie een geluidsbelevingsonderzoek gedaan naar de radarpost in Wier.
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Geluid en geluidsbeleving in Vlietland
(2025)
author(s): Marcel Cobussen
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Van september tot en met december 2024 heeft Marcel Cobussen (Universiteit Leiden), gedeeltelijk in samenwerking met enkele collega’s en in opdracht van de Provincie Zuid-Holland een geluids(belevings)onderzoek gedaan naar de actuele en mogelijk toekomstige geluidsomgeving in Vlietland, met nadruk op tracédelen 1 en 2.
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Sonic Citizenship: About the Messy and Fragile Negotiations With and Through Sound
(2024)
author(s): Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Anette Vandsø and Morten Breinbjerg
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
In this article we propose the concept of "sonic citizenship" as a framework for the multitude of ways in which we, in the rhythms of our everyday lives, form the aural background of each other, and how citizenship is practiced, negotiated, and maintained through everyday sonic activities. With examples of messy, fragile, and difficult interactions with sound from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that the effort of tuning the soundscapes of the world needs to be complemented by an attuning approach that focuses on the negotiations we are constantly involved with in our everyday lives. The soundscape approach in the tradition of R. Murray Schafer implies that the soundscape is there as a landscape that we can uncover and tune. Conversely, the attuning approach of sonic citizenship understands soundscapes as relationships and dynamic configurations to which we must continuously attune, and which are themselves reconfigured via breaks in habitual attunements.
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Noise Pollution and Sound Beyond “Sound”
(2024)
author(s): SHLUK
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
The Artistic Research project SHLUK focuses on the topics of noise pollution and sound beyond sound. For this purpose, it questions the (mis)conceptions behind the ideas of audible spectrum and “unwanted sound”. The group aims to put forward a proposal for political involvement with the environment, namely through the practice of field recordings. In this case, the collection of sounds in a specific neighborhood in Prague (Barrandov) carries the bond to discuss these practices. Moreover, the group proposes the idea of “deep recording“ as a device for a necessary acoustic revolution towards a less anthropocentric understanding of ecology.
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JSS26 Editorial
(2024)
author(s): Vincent Meelberg
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Every now and then JSS publishes a non-themed issue. What happens in general is that, over several months, people have submitted papers outside of a call for papers, or outside a thematic issue that is planned. After having collected enough of those papers, we start the usual (external) peer review and editing processes and publish an issue that has no focus on one theme which will be explored in depth, but one that presents the versatility and width of contemporary sound studies and/or sound art.