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The Roker Hotel, Seaburn Special rates for Sounding Out 4 delegates SO4 delegates can book rooms at the Roker Hotel at preferential rates if they book before 1st July: Single Rooms - £60 p.n. (including breakfast) [usual price £73]* Double...

The Roker Hotel, Seaburn Special rates for Sounding Out 4 delegates SO4 delegates can book rooms at the Roker Hotel at preferential rates if they book before 1st July: Single Rooms - £60 p.n. (including breakfast) [usual price £73]* Double Rooms - £70 p.n. (including breakfast) [usual price £85]* To book these rooms, delegates should contact Gillian Trodden (Reception Manager) on TEL: 00 44 1919 567 1786 or EMAIL: gillian.trodden@hotmail.co.uk To receive these special rates please state that you are attending Sounding Out 4 at the University of Sunderland when you contact Gillian. *This offer will not apply after 1st July 2008. Availability is limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. tag:www.soundingout.sunderland.ac.uk,2008://35.3961 2008-06-24T10:57:52Z 2008-06-24T10:59:10Z

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Download file]]> Ira Bhaskar : The Song in Indian cinema One of the most distinctive and distinguishing features of the Indian cinematic form is the presence of songs in almost all mainstream films. This feature is not linked to just specific genres, for songs are a conventional feature of the cinema itself. The music and film industries have had linked histories from the beginning of sound cinema with Alam Ara in 1931. The song has also been used creatively by film makers of the different art cinemas of India. Drawing upon examples from the different periods and genres of Indian cinema, the paper will investigate the origins of this performative idiom; the affective charge that it carries, the emotional force-field that it creates and its impact on narrative and cinematic form. In discussing the privileged position that is given to the performance of the song in Indian cinema, the paper will also look at the aesthetics of bhava and rasa, so central to Indian art and attempt to explain how the song enables the foregrounding of emotion and its aesthetic rendering. Audience expectations are so tied in to the music / songs of the film that often it is the songs that can make or break a film. Moreover, while the songs are crucial to a film, they also have an independent life of their own, and decades later audiences still hum the most popular songs of an earlier period. As a crucial feature of the Indian cinematic form, songs then have a life in popular culture that exceeds cinema itself. Neil Brand: Adventures in the Missing Sense - Silent Film, Radio and Audience Expectation This paper seeks to reconcile the contrasting worlds of silent cinema and radio drama by investigating their common theme – the missing sense. In both cases the point at which the imagination has to take over aural or visual imagery is aided by written or performed stimulation which does not attempt to represent reality, more a widely-recognised shorthand influenced, certainly in the case of the speaker, by our common experience of film and TV. Using a wide range of examples from Neil Brand's own work as writer and silent film musician, the paper investigates how far we can gauge ‘common experience’ and what constitutes a truly satisfying experience which must, by its nature, be partially rendered in the mind. Richard Dyer: And the Wind Blows: the Wind in Fellini The wind is a persistent feature of Fellini's films, the sound of it and the visible effect it has. This persistence can in part be explained biographically (the wind is often the wind heard and felt on beaches or piers, drawing on Fellini's childhood in the seaside town of Rimini) and in part symbolically (as in the wind that carries away the words of Guido's potential saviour at the end of La dolce vita or that promises renewal at the beginning and end of Amarcord). However I want to try and understand these dimensions and the presence of the wind in Fellini more in terms of its affective value. It is a sign of movement, always a central felt value in Fellini's work, at once joyous energy and debilitating restlessness. But part of what makes the wind fascinating is also that it is something that can be heard and felt but cannot be seen except, residually, in its effects. It is this quality of the wind that gives it importance in relation to the feeling of movement, linking it to Fellini's sense of the reality of magic and mystery in his portrayal both of the social world and of the artifice of circus and cinema. Sean Street: Radio, the Sound of Poetry and the Poetry of Sound An examination of how poets from the early nineteenth century onwards have frequently used the partnership with their reading audience to create sound images through words, sometimes created by the poets themselves, but germinated by the imagination of the reader. This is compared to the ways that radio partners this ambition by creating sound worlds that are themselves poetic. tag:www.soundingout.sunderland.ac.uk,2008://35.3621 2008-04-29T13:12:28Z 2008-04-29T13:14:54Z

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Download file]]> Sounding Out 4 Delegate Rates Delegate Rates when booked before 1st July Full Fee with Accommodation (& conf dinner) £300 Full Fee with no Accommodation (not dinner) £230 Student Fee with Accommodation (not conf din) £150 Student Fee with no accom. (with meals, not conf din) £90 UoS Staff, no accom (with meals, not conf din) £90 UoS Student Rate, no meals or accom. £35 Conference dinner (Friday night @ National Glass Centre: 3 course meal) £25 This is paid as a supplement to all the above rates with the exception of the £300 package. Delegate Rates when booked after 1st July Full Fee with Accommodation (& conf dinner) £320 Full Fee with no Accommodation (not dinner) £250 Student Fee with Accommodation (not conf din) £160 Student Fee with no accom. (with meals, not conf din) £100 UoS Staff, no accom (with meals, not conf din) £100 UoS Student Rate, no meals or accom. £40 Conference dinner (Friday night @ National Glass Centre: 3 course meal) £25 This is paid as a supplement to all the above rates with the exception of the £280 package. Cancellation charges: Cancellation 1st July-31st July: 80% Booking fee returned Cancellation 1st August – 15th August: 60% Booking fee returned Cancellation 16th August- 31st August: 40% Booking fee returned Cancellation after 1st September: 20% Booking fee returned _____ The early booking reductions do not apply to day rates. Day Rates (Full Fee): Thursday: Tea, Wine Reception, dinner £60 Friday: 2 x Teas, Lunch £85 Saturday: 2 x Teas & Lunch £85 Thursday & Friday £140 Friday & Saturday £160 Day Rates (Reduced/Student Fee): Thursday: Tea, Wine Reception £30 Friday: 2 x Teas, Lunch £40 Saturday: 2 x Teas & Lunch £40 Thursday & Friday £65 Friday & Saturday £75 tag:www.soundingout.sunderland.ac.uk,2007://35.2890 2007-11-13T14:13:05Z 2007-11-13T14:18:12Z

Please find attached a PDF Call for Papers for Sounding Out 4 (4-6 September, 2008) Download file...

Download file ]]> Call for Papers & Presentations (deadline: 14th March 2008) SOUNDING OUT 4 - An International Symposium on Sound in the Media 4-6 September, 2008 – University of Sunderland Sounding Out will return to the University of Sunderland’s Media Centre in September 2008, hosted by the Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies. The conference aims to promote links and dialogue between practitioners, students and academics concerned with SOUND as communication, entertainment and creative practice across various media: including film, radio, television, video, audio-books, electro-acoustic music, sonic art, new digital media and computer games. Sounding Out 4 is particularly interested in the twin themes of sound and memory, sound and history but these are by no means exclusive and the debate is expected to be as wide-ranging and forward-looking as on previous occasions. The conference will include a selection of keynote speakers drawn from a variety of media (theory and practice), presentations of audio and audio-visual work, plus 14 panels of papers by delegates (a total of 40 papers). Keynote presentations will be given by: Simo Alitalo Finnish Sound Sculptor Ira Bhaskar Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Neil Brand Playwright, radio dramatist, author, silent film accompanist & film music composer. Richard Dyer Professor of Film, Kings College London. His books include Stars (1979), Now You See It (1990), Only Entertainment (1992), White (1997) and Pastiche (2007). Sean Street Professor of Radio, Bournemouth University, radio poet & producer, author of A Concise History of British Radio (2002). Hildegard Westerkamp Vancouver-based composer and sound ecologist, a key member of the World Soundscape Project in the mid-seventies, a founder member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), and co-editor of Soundscape – The Journal of Acoustic Ecology. Proposals are invited for illustrated presentations of not more than 20 minutes, which may include 5 minutes of audio or audio-visual material. For more information on this and the previous conferences, please visit our website at: http://www.soundingout.sunderland.ac.uk/ Please send your abstract of no more than 150 words by 14th March to Martin Shingler, SOUNDING OUT 4, The Media Centre, Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s, St Peter’s Way, Sunderland, SR6 ODD, United Kingdom Or email soundingout@sunderland.ac.uk Organizers: Nick Cope - Christine Gledhill – Peter M Lewis – Caroline Mitchell – Chris Priestman - Gianluca Sergi – Martin Shingler – Ulrike Sieglohr tag:www.soundingout.sunderland.ac.uk,2007://35.2807 2007-10-31T12:51:56Z 2007-10-31T12:55:20Z

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The original Sounding Out symposium at Staffordshire University in July 2002 was designed to stake out a new territory for Film Studies by raising the profile of sound within the image-sound relationship, whilst contributing significantly to the newly emerging area...

Dean Hale The original Sounding Out symposium at Staffordshire University in July 2002 was designed to stake out a new territory for Film Studies by raising the profile of sound within the image-sound relationship, whilst contributing significantly to the newly emerging area of sound studies. It aimed to bring theorists into contact with a range of sound practitioners and also to bring together (and into dialogue) a range of scholars already working on different aspects of sound, e.g., radio, video, sonic arts and electro-acoustic music. Keynote speakers and performers were chosen to represent these different areas of scholarship and practice. The event also aimed to bring scholars and practitioners together from around the world in order to identify practices and scholarship not just in the UK but also USA, Australia, Europe and India, reflecting contemporary interest in globalisation. Key themes emerged around issues such as: • New technologies of sound • Impacts and effects of media convergence • Writing and performance for sound • Voice (both media practices of recording/reproduction and its cultural significance) • Phenomenology of sound (e.g. the hierarchy of the human senses, perceptions of hearing, etc.) • The work, role and status of sound designers in the commercial film industry (mainly Hollywood) including aesthetics, narratological conventions, effects and affects. • Practices and techniques of radio drama, aesthetics and production contexts • Experimental sound practices (e.g., soundscapes, live mixing) A subsequent event, Sounding Out 2 at the University of Nottingham in July 2004, was organised to maintain this intellectual exchange and dialogue, broadening the debate out to areas such as computer games design, audiobooks, personal stereos and ipods. Papers were invited as well as keynote speakers to address three specific sets if issues (or inter-related strands): (a) The Voice, (b) Audiences, and (c) Cultural Identities. The Voice strand raised issues of the human, bodily element of speech, how listeners respond and how performers, writers and producers use these as expressive techniques. The Audiences strand examined the ways listeners used various sound media and explored the contexts and conditions of listening. The Cultural Identities strand investigated a variety of issues around gender, class, race, ethnicity, age and sub-cultural identities/groups. Key themes emerged around issues such as: • Vocabularies and methodologies scholars use to identify, describe, conceptualise and make sense of sound • Impact of Dolby stereo on recent and contemporary mainstream film production and exhibition • Sound space and proxemics (e.g., hearing and analysing spatial qualities of sound) • Silence: aesthetics and affect • Film music: aesthetics and affect • Voice-over narration in fiction films and documentaries • Listening spaces and environments • Issues regarding audience research, methodologies and interpretation • New forms and contexts of experimental radio broadcasting A third event, Sounding Out 3 at University of Sunderland in September 2006, is being planned to build upon and extend research in those areas which emerged as key issues at the previous two events. This event aims to: • Maintain and extend the dialogue between theorists and practitioners, promoting new research collaborations and sustaining emerging collaborations between practitioners, writers, performers, theorists and historians. • Identify, exchange and promote international perspectives and practices of sound. • Extend knowledge of sound practices (including consumption) to new and emerging technologies (e.g., pod-casting) • Consider the on-going effects of media convergence and to understand these in relation to the historical development of communication and the electronic mass media • Promote new and emerging scholarship on sound practices, technologies, aesthetics, perception, affect, writing and performance • Reconsider the relationship of sound and image, hearing and vision. Having formerly promoted attention to sound as a distinct medium, one motive for this third event is to refocus questions of the diverse ways sound and image interact. In Film Studies a new interdisciplinary approach to early cinema is making increasing use of the concept of ‘inter-mediality’ in order to foreground the relations between film and other media (theatre, music-hall, radio, etc.) thus adding a historical dimension. In Radio Studies, scholars are reframing perceptions of radio and ‘radiobility’ in response to the text and images of digital and web radio. This would seem an appropriate time to investigate the relationship of sound and image, hearing and vision in the electronic media. • Dissemination of new research on sound in the mass media through the publication of an anthology of papers from all three Sounding Out events. tag:myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk,2006:/blogs/soundingout//35.520 2006-03-15T16:47:25Z 2007-11-18T09:41:45Z

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY Sunderland is a dynamic, modern university with high standards of teaching and research and a growing reputation as the university for enterprise, employment and opportunity. Our ambitious city is a great place to live and work –...

Dean Hale ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY Sunderland is a dynamic, modern university with high standards of teaching and research and a growing reputation as the university for enterprise, employment and opportunity. Our ambitious city is a great place to live and work – right at the heart of the buzzing North East of England. Sunderland is a breath of fresh air, with a stunning coastline and breathtaking countryside nearby as well as all the nightlife, leisure and cultural opportunities you’d expect from a major city. Sunderland has an international outlook and students from across the globe choose to study with us - either on campus or on our accredited programmes in partner institutions. Sunderland is ideally positioned in the North East of England with two International Airports in the North East and excellent supporting transport links. Find Sunderland in the UK For full directions to the St. Peter's Campus visit the University of Sunderland website and click on Find Us or download the University of Sunderland North East or Sunderland Maps. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL LINKS Newcastle International Airport (24.7 miles from University Campus) Durham Tees Valley International Airport (36.3 miles from University Campus) The Tyne and Wear Metro Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) The Train Line]]> tag:myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk,2006:/blogs/soundingout//35.516 2006-02-17T15:07:16Z 2007-11-18T09:41:57Z

Following the success of Sounding Out at Staffordshire University in 2002 and Sounding Out 2 in 2004 at The University of Nottingham, Sounding Out 3 is to be held in September 2006 at the University of Sunderland in the state...

Dean Hale “I’m delighted that the University of Sunderland is hosting Sounding Out, helping to bring together people from across the media sector, new and old. This is an important and timely event which will consider a host of fascinating developments in different media.” Lord Putnam of Queensgate CBE The Symposium Organisaing team, led by Dr. Martin Shingler (Senior Lecturer in Radio and Film Studies), and the University will make this years conference a huge success, that builds on experiences of the first two conferences and makes a strong impact on attendees and the industry as a whole. “The success of the previous two conferences has positioned Sounding Out as a major event in the Industry’s calendar. The University of Sunderland’s media department has an international reputation for the quality of its teaching and research activities. An exciting programme has been put together and, through our links with other institutions throughout the world, we have already secured the services of several of the leading figures on sound research and development, film and radio, from across the UK, USA and Europe as conference speakers.” Dr Martin Shingler Conference Organiser and Senior Lecturer in Radio and Film Studies]]> Sounding Out 1 at Staffordshire University in 2002 Sounding Out 2 University of Nottingham in 2004