[Sci-tech-public] Fri., Oct. 22 Sensing the Unseen @ MIT - "The Elusive: Listening"

[Amberly Steward]

Please join us this Friday, October 22, for the second meeting of Sensing
the Unseen, a seminar series to discuss current scholarship on the sensory
and media modes that people employ to access realms of existence and
experience outside the immediately visible. 



All seminar meetings are free and open to the public - no registration is
required. 

The Elusive: Listening <http://web.mit.edu/unseen/species/elusive.html> 
Friday, October 22, 2:30-5:00 pm  
@ MIT 56-114 (Whitaker Building #56 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=56> , Room
114)

Speakers: Steven Feld and Hillel Schwartz

Discussants: Wayne Marshall (MIT) and Jimena Canales (Harvard) 
 
Steven Feld, Acoustemologies

Listening to histories of listening, encountering sound as a way of knowing
(that is, as an acoustemology), and recounting practices of recording and
playback as dialogic auditing, Steven Feld will give a tour of such
encounters in rainforest New Guinea, pastoral Europe, and urban Ghana in
order to pose questions about the ways sonic ephemerality and materiality
become one.


Hillel Schwartz, Cross Polytopes & Octaphons More Agreeable: Toward A
Taxonomy of Sounds All Around But Not Quite There
One-line teaser: Bombard the notion of surround-sound until it bursts, then
listen to what happens.

 

A Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures to be held at MIT in
2010-2011, Sensing the Unseen is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and hosted by MIT Anthropology. Our website provides more details, including
upcoming seminars:  http://web.mit.edu/unseen/ 

Maps & directions to the Sensing the Unseen seminar can be found here:
http://web.mit.edu/unseen/directions.html
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