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Bike Sounds in the Urban Space of Wrocław The bike as one of very few vehicles produces the most natural sounds that don’t interfere with the city’s auditory environment. As the sounds are quiet and pleasant, they can easily be an antidote to the traffic noise. In Wrocław there are more and more people who tend to ride a bike, which is undoubtedly a consequence of an improved infrastructure. The bike sounds can be heard all over the urban space all day long. What makes Wroclaw unique is for sure the number of bike related initiatives, most of all the collective monthly bike rides during the so called Critical Masses and the annual Wrocław Bikers Fest. They give a chance to listen to a mosaic of bike-produced sounds as well as bike-dedicated music.
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Janówka Village in the District of Augustów as an Instance of the Rural Soundscape in the Memory of its Inhabitants The article presents sounds of the Polish countryside illustrated by Janówka village in the district of Augustów, in the region of Podlasie. It describes the annual and family cycle with a particular emphasis put on sounds and includes changes to the rural soundscape that have taken place over several decades. Musical practices present in the phonosphere periodically, independently of the above mentioned cycles, are also an important part of the description. Beside the musical activity, the article describes sounds typical of the countryside, connected mainly with farming. Silence is another presented phenomenon – less and less common in our native soundscape.
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Venetian texts” in nineteenth-century Russia employed a certain conventional model. Its image of Venice, both visual and auditory, consisted of several consistently reproduced elements. Only at the turn of the twentieth century did more individualized works begin to emerge, breaking stereotypes, and above all offering a deeper reflection on the Venetian soundscape. Writers at tend to the city’s unique auditory space, especially the silence that dominates it. Venetian silence, despite its strangeness or even theatricality, is perceived by the artists as positive, in contrast to the bustle of tourism, which is treated as unnatural: an undesirable interference with the unique sonic environment of the city
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Monastery as an Example of Acoustic Design In my paper I am analyzing the acoustic design of space in cloistered monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church. I am showing the phenomenon of building monastic establishments far from the urban tissue in the context of the polyvalent concept of silence which Christian theology applies. In order to present the existential value of silence I am referring to figures of authority in the fields of philosophy (Plato, S. Kierkegaard, L. Wittgenstein), religion (Gnostic mythology, Meister Eckhart) and aesthetics (R. M. Schafer, J. Cage). Following different attempts to define the term “asceticism”, I am interpreting “acoustic asceticism” not as an attempt at sound annihilation but rather as a thoughtful ordering of the existing sonic environment. I am elaborating on various examples of acoustic restrictions in the form of vows of silence in hermit orders. I am presenting my analyses against the background of religious studies, which always see a moment of danger in the structure of the sacred. The sacred always requires a borderland between the sacred and the profane. The monks’ preoccupation with keeping silence is an example of that borderland at the acoustic level.
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Introduction to the issue about Digital Revolution in Music
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What is important for humans can also be noticed and utilized by today’s marketing industry. Capitalist economy seduces its customers, i.e. consumers, with increasing sophistication, offering ever newer or freshly presented products and services. Contemporary, holistic marketing employs knowledge about humans, whose need to valuate everything they perceive is an inherent feature. One way to persuade customers of a given offer’s uniqueness is to refer to a particular customer group’s system of values. Silence, although physically experienced, is primarily a cultural construct with strong references to axiology. As such, it can become a widely shared carrier for aesthetic or vital values. Along with such references to cultural values, it is sometimes used to build the economic value of a product or service. The article attempts to show these dependencies and explain how the sale of such a completely immaterial and difficult to normally describe phenomenon as silence might work.
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The article presents a research project that was prepared by members of The Soundscape Research Studio at the Institute of Cultural Studies of the University of Wrocław for the NPRH grant competition of 2015. The goal of the project was to describe transformations of the soundscape of Wrocław and the role it played in the institutional, artistic and everyday life of the city’s inhabitants. Although the grant application was unsuccessful, the project has defined one of the research areas explored by the Studio.
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Soundscape Perspectives of the Toy Piano Gallery
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Soundscapes in the Literary Works of Stanisław Lem and Science Fiction Film Soundtracks The purpose of this paper is to analyze the complex and heterogeneous soundscapes of Stanisław Lem’s literary works, filled with many sounds and many voices: “the absolute silence of the cosmos”, “the overwhelming hum of the future”, “the unsettling knocking on a space station”, “the furtive whisper of a robot”. These are the sounds of Lem’s worlds, in which he conjures up his futurological speculations, shaping them into sci-fi stories about humans, who - among other things - listen. Lem’s space fantasies have inspired film directors and playwrights (particularly radio dramas), posing a challenge for composers and sound producers facing the problem of translating the shape of things to come, emerging from the futurological stories written by the author who gave us Solaris, into the language of sound and music. A peculiar sonic distinctiveness of electronic sonority rises from this genre-oriented and continuous creative practice in film and radio science-fiction with all its earmarks: spaceships, robots, advanced technologies, laboratories, and extraterrestrial worlds – all sounding “electronic,” and thus exotic and distinct to those enjoying this type of fiction in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
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Taking into consideration the experience of the Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro in Riva presso Chieri (Turin, Italy), this article deals with the role of sound and music in a cultural environment, considering both the process of changing of traditional music and the issues of folk revival, in order to improve a sustaina- ble and non-nationalistic sense of belonging to a place and to raise awareness of the relevance of sound in human and non-human life. It also deals with the opportunity to join the existing digital networks of museums of musical in- struments, without affecting the museum’s distinctive features and those of the musical instruments it hosts.
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The paper is an attempt to identify the wide array of contexts and problems associated with the presence of sound in contemporary culture. These contexts are described using the most significant questions in given problematic fields. The main objective is to draw a map delineating the varied field of research on sound. In the paper, questions coexist related to philosophy, aesthetics, musico­ logy, anthropology, acoustics, ecology and architecture.
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Listening to Museums. Several Remarks on the Presence of Sound in Exhibition Space
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The article is a case study of visually representing the phenomenon of ‘music’ in a museum exhibition. For the purpose of this analysis, the Museum of Writ- ing and Kashubian-Pomeranian Music in Wejherowo (Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej w Wejherowie) is identified as the sole muse- um in Poland that includes the word ‘music’ in its official name. The problems described centre around two issues: definitions connected with the ethnic (re- gional) and thematic specificity of a museum collection in the region of Kashu- bia, and technical exhibition strategy in the context of ‘Kashubian-Pomeranian music’. The phenomenon of ‘music’ undergoes a process of reification at the museum exhibit, but it also remains a living phenomenon that integrates the local community owing to the museum’s active engagement in various forms of musical activity.
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