Anna Symanczyk

°1985
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Anna Symanczyk, M.A., studied Cultural Anthropology and Art History. She works as a research and teaching assistant at the Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie, Universität Hamburg (Institute of Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg). In her PhD project she researches processes of product sound design. She was a recipient of the 2014 Isa Lohmann-Siems Foundation scholarship in Hamburg and worked in an interdisciplinary research project called Klang-Kontakte. Zur Kommunikation, Konstruktion und Kultur von Klängen (Sound-Contact. On the Communication, Design, and Culture of Sounds). She has been teaching at the Institut für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie at the University of Hamburg and the Institut Kultur der Metropole at Hafen City Universität, Hamburg.

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  • The Sound of Stuff – Archetypical Sound in Product Sound Design (2015) author(s): Anna Symanczyk published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Through their history, materiality, and use, products gain sonic qualities and attributes, which become an integral part of contemporary sound design for these objects. Taking the example of the vacuum cleaner, this article discusses the relationship between historical material properties and product sound design as well as between listening traditions and characteristic product sounds. It concludes that there is an archetypical sound for vacuum cleaners. Following the role of sound through several examples of advertisements, this article performs a cultural analysis of sounding objects and the communication surrounding these sounds in order to better understand the effects that archetypical sounds have on buyer or user perception of product sounds.
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