080088 VU B720 Cultural Studies Workshop 2: Sound Studies. Urban Soundscapes and the sound of rupture (2026S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 02.02.2026 07:00 to Mo 23.02.2026 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Fr 13.03.2026 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 04.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 11.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 18.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 25.03. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 15.04. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 29.04. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 29.04. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 13.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 13.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 27.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 27.05. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 17.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 17.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 24.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
- Wednesday 24.06. 12:45 - 14:15 Seminarraum 2 (4.Stock) EE Hanuschgasse
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Which echo remains of a city after moments of rupture - after protests, pandemics, displacement, or collective struggle? What lingers in sounds, silences, rhythms, and everyday acoustic traces? Contemporary cultural science demands the ability to work with sensory, process-based forms of knowledge, and to translate social dynamics - often expressed through sound, silence, and atmospheres - into reflective and practice-oriented formats. This course invites students to approach the city through the key concepts of sound studies, understanding urban life as a soundscape: a socially and culturally produced sonic environment shaped by bodies, infrastructures, power relations, and everyday practices. Drawing on key concepts such as active listening, acoustic territories, and auditory fieldwork, the course introduces sound as a central analytical dimension in European ethnology and cultural anthropology. Through sound walks, active listening exercises, descriptive writing and recording students will learn how sound function as cultural analytic category and ethnographic material. By combining theoretical readings from key concepts of sound studies with practical exercises, the course aims to cultivate a critical, situated, and reflective mode of sensorial perception of the urban space. No practical pre-knowledge is required.
Assessment and permitted materials
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung. Anwesenheitspflicht ( 2 x Fehlen erlaubt)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Für den erfolgreichen Abschluss der LV sind zumindest 51 von 100 möglichen Punkten zu erreichen. Alle Teilleistungen sind zu erbringen.
Notenskala:
> = 92 sehr gut (1)
> = 80 gut (2)
> = 65 befriedigend (3)
> = 51 genügend (4)
< 51 nicht genügend (5)
Notenskala:
> = 92 sehr gut (1)
> = 80 gut (2)
> = 65 befriedigend (3)
> = 51 genügend (4)
< 51 nicht genügend (5)
Examination topics
This course assessment is based on continuous participation, engagement with theoretical materials, practical exercises, and an individual sound project with a short reflective text.The final grade will be awarded according to the following criteria:Active participation (regular attendance and informed contribution to class discussions): 20 points
Participation in exercises (engagement in in-class practical exercises): 20 points
Reading of required literature (preparation and critical engagement with the mandatory texts): 20 points
Final sound project (sound work accompanied by a short reflective text): 40 pointsTotal: 100 points
Participation in exercises (engagement in in-class practical exercises): 20 points
Reading of required literature (preparation and critical engagement with the mandatory texts): 20 points
Final sound project (sound work accompanied by a short reflective text): 40 pointsTotal: 100 points
Reading list
Augoyard, J.-F., & Torgue, H. (2005). Sonic experience: A guide to everyday sounds (A. McCartney & D. Paquette, Trans.). McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Campos, S. (2018). Noise, sonic experimentation, and interior coloniality in Costa Rica. In A. Madrid, A. L. Ochoa Gautier, & M. Moore (Eds.), Experimentalisms in practice: Music perspectives from Latin America (pp. 161–185). Oxford University Press.
Carreras, J. J. (2021). Musicología, sound studies, sound history. In A. F. Conde, V. de Sá, & R. T. de Paula (Eds.), Paisagens sonoras históricas. Publicações do CIDEHUS.
https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cidehus.17517
Chion, M. (2015). Audition and ergo-audition: Then and now. In D. Daniels & S. Naumann (Eds.), See this sound: Audiovisuology – A reader. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute.
Ferrarini, L. (2017). Embodied representation: Audiovisual media and sensory ethnography. AnthroVision, 5(1).
https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.2514
LaBelle, B. (2010). Acoustic territories: Sound culture and everyday life. Bloomsbury Academic.
Oehme-Jüngling, K. (2014). Auditive Feldforschung. In C. Bischoff, K. Oehme-Jüngling, & W. Leimgruber (Eds.), Methoden der Kulturanthropologie (pp. 351–366). Haupt.
Oliveira, P., & Vieira de, J. S. (2020). Dealing with disaster: Notes toward a decolonizing, aesthetico-relational sound art. In S. Piekut & B. Thompson (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of sound art. Bloomsbury Academic.
Piekut, B., Lara, R., & García, J. D. (2024). Estudios sonoros más allá de los sound studies: Conversación entre Rossana Lara, Jorge David García y Benjamin Piekut. Revista del Instituto Superior de Música, 25, e0064.
https://doi.org/10.14409/rism.2024.25.e0064
Schafer, R. M. (1994). The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Destiny Books.
Toro, R., & Hernández Castellanos, D. (2023). Decolonial listening and the politics of sound: Water, breathing and urban unconscious. Journal of Sonic Studies.
https://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.1912894
Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to noise and silence: Towards a philosophy of sound art. Bloomsbury Academic.
Campos, S. (2018). Noise, sonic experimentation, and interior coloniality in Costa Rica. In A. Madrid, A. L. Ochoa Gautier, & M. Moore (Eds.), Experimentalisms in practice: Music perspectives from Latin America (pp. 161–185). Oxford University Press.
Carreras, J. J. (2021). Musicología, sound studies, sound history. In A. F. Conde, V. de Sá, & R. T. de Paula (Eds.), Paisagens sonoras históricas. Publicações do CIDEHUS.
https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cidehus.17517
Chion, M. (2015). Audition and ergo-audition: Then and now. In D. Daniels & S. Naumann (Eds.), See this sound: Audiovisuology – A reader. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute.
Ferrarini, L. (2017). Embodied representation: Audiovisual media and sensory ethnography. AnthroVision, 5(1).
https://doi.org/10.4000/anthrovision.2514
LaBelle, B. (2010). Acoustic territories: Sound culture and everyday life. Bloomsbury Academic.
Oehme-Jüngling, K. (2014). Auditive Feldforschung. In C. Bischoff, K. Oehme-Jüngling, & W. Leimgruber (Eds.), Methoden der Kulturanthropologie (pp. 351–366). Haupt.
Oliveira, P., & Vieira de, J. S. (2020). Dealing with disaster: Notes toward a decolonizing, aesthetico-relational sound art. In S. Piekut & B. Thompson (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of sound art. Bloomsbury Academic.
Piekut, B., Lara, R., & García, J. D. (2024). Estudios sonoros más allá de los sound studies: Conversación entre Rossana Lara, Jorge David García y Benjamin Piekut. Revista del Instituto Superior de Música, 25, e0064.
https://doi.org/10.14409/rism.2024.25.e0064
Schafer, R. M. (1994). The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Destiny Books.
Toro, R., & Hernández Castellanos, D. (2023). Decolonial listening and the politics of sound: Water, breathing and urban unconscious. Journal of Sonic Studies.
https://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.1912894
Voegelin, S. (2010). Listening to noise and silence: Towards a philosophy of sound art. Bloomsbury Academic.
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