Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover/Germany, December 5-7, 2013

In times of digitization, internet, and mobile communication, the humanities can build on new, empirically driven methods to gain new insights. But what are the implications of this mode of knowledge production for the various disciplines subsumed under the term humanities, their methods and research objects, and for the role the humanities should and could play in society? We would be delighted if you joined the discussion please save the date and the event in your calendar.
Confirmed speakers include:

• Gregory Ralph Crane, University Leipzig
• Iryna Gurevych, Technical University Darmstadt
• Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
• Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, University of Oxford
• Lev Manovich, City University of New York
• Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University
• Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University

You can find more information on the conference in the attached flyer and under www.volkswagenstiftung.de/digitalhumanities

We cordially invite early career researchers to participate in our event. Therefore, the Volkswagen Foundation offers Travel Grants for young researchers who wish to attend the conference. The deadline for application isAugust 15, 2013. For more information on the application process, please visit www.volkswagenstiftung.de/digitalhumanities 

We would appreciate if you forwarded this Save-the-Date and the Call for Abstracts to all colleagues to whom this conference and / or the Travel Grants might be of interest.

We do look forward to welcoming you to Hanover.

Yours sincerely,

Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General
Volkswagen Foundation

LARM er for tiden i gang med et spændende samarbejde med Arbejdermuseet om, hvordan man på en lettere måde kan formidle og få adgang til samfundets lydkilder. Målet er, at forskere, studerende og andre interesserede skal kunne udforske også lydsiden af den danske kulturarv. Indledningsvist vil det komme til at dreje sig 14 optagelser á ca. 20 timer fra Arbejdermuseet.

På Arbejdermuseets hjemmeside kan du læse mere om pilotprojektet og høre et par eksempler på optagelser. Du kan høre Statsminister Hans Hedtofts Nytårstale fra 1954 og klip fra kommunist Villy Fuglsang og maskinarbejder Lauritz Hansens erindringer.

I P1-programmet, De hemmelige arkiver, kan du fra 18.45 høre mere om museets arkiv af flere tusind timers lydoptagelser.

Vi regner med, at alle optagelserne vil være tilgængelige på LARM.fm inden sommerferien.

Projektbeskrivelse: Musik har altid udgjort ca. halvdelen af DRs samlede sendeflade, men ingen har endnu systematisk undersøgt, hvad musik gør ved radio og radio ved musik. Derfor undersøger RAMUND, hvordan radio og musikliv i Danmark har påvirket hinanden i de sidste små 100 år. Musik og radio mødes i musikradio, og projektets hovedopgave er at undersøge en lang række programmer, programserier og sendeflader. En delopgave er at analysere, hvilke typer radio musikradio omfatter, og hvordan de har forandret sig historisk. Møderne mellem musik og radio sker i lyset af en række kulturelle konventioner, artefakter, praksisser og institutioner. De kan forstås som genrekulturer, et begreb der fungerer både konkret som systematiserende og generelt som rammesættende for sociale praksisser. I møderne er radioen er blevet stadig mere dominerende, og for at forstå dens påvirkninger undersøges flere medialiseringsprocesser, som kan blotlægge, hvordan det 20.århundredes musik og musikliv i samspil med radioen har gennemgået en lang række forandringer, der ikke mindst har udfordret selve ideen om, hvad musik er. Møderne bliver undersøgt i 11 delprojekter på et kulturteoretisk grundlag på tværs af populærmusik og klassisk musik. Så omfattende indholdsstudier af dansk radio har ikke tidligere været gennemført, og projektet vil give væsentlige bidrag til både musikkens og radioens historier samt til de teoretiske felter, der ligger bag til glæde for forskere, radiomedarbejdere og offentlighed.

Her kan du se, hvad bevillingerne ellers blev givet til: http://fivu.dk/forskning-og-innovation/tilskud-til-forskning-og-innovation/hvem-har-modtaget-tilskud/2013/bevillinger-fra-det-frie-forskningsrad-kultur-og-kommunikation-juni-2012

We are glad to see many abstracts uploaded to the LARM conference site. Due to the big interest the last couple of days we decided to extend the deadline for abstracts another two weeks. Final deadline is June 15th. 

—-

Call for papers – LARM Conference

Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory

Conference, The University of Copenhagen, November 14-15, 2013

Keynote speakers:

David Hendy, University of Sussex
Karin Bijsterveld, Maastricht University
Lev Manovich, City University of New York
Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison

We welcome abstracts for our open paper sessions and for panels taking place at the conference. Sub-calls for the panels can be found by following the links bellow.

Digitization enables us to meet cultural heritage artifacts and narratives in heretofore unimagined media and platforms. Accessibility to written, visual, auditory and audiovisual sources increase dramatically. But how do we wish to access and interact with cultural heritage sources in the 21st Century? This conference focuses on practices of cultural memory in the multiform meetings between users and cultural heritage. What interfaces are established between users, be they researchers or ‘ordinary’ citizens, and the archives of cultural heritage? What possibilities are opened for interaction with cultural heritage artifacts? And what methods and scientific paradigms are relevant to order and describe such immense archives.

One aspect, which seems to have received too little treatment so far, is the question of the auditory and audiovisually based cultural heritage’s role in the construction of historical narratives. Music, film, radio, and television have become ingrained in a nation’s cultural memory, and in many, not least, European countries, state-governed national broadcasting corporations have played and do still play a vital role in narrating and interpreting the past, not least by establishing institutional production archives which give producers access to historical material otherwise inaccessible. Such reuses of historical materials afford renegotiations of the historical past(s) by valuating the new historical materials as significant historical sources. Digitization means that such historical materials, be they broadcast or other cultural heritage artifacts, are to an increasing degree accessible outside the production environment, e.g. for research. One recurring problem is that the materials are still under the editorial control of the parent institution and accessible only for some uses to some users. This motivates a new look at the question of who has the right to circulate archived material in what forms, and thus who is allowed to narrate the past. The question is relevant at all levels, from the level of national cultural politics all the way down to the concrete definition of rights for individual users in the archive or on broadcaster’s websites.

The conference wishes to contribute new perspectives to these issues, first, by focusing on (access to) digital media archives, a phenomenon that has only really come into existence over the last decades, and secondly, by focusing on auditory and audiovisual source material, i.e. data sources with an extension in time, as oppose to texts and pictures. Again, digital archives of auditory and audiovisual material are rather young compared to archives of (scanned) texts and pictures. Finally, the conference’s focus is on the digital archives’ role in the construction of cultural history as well as studies in cultural history and cultural memory. Traditionally, digital humanities have tended to focus on the internal structure of artifacts, e.g. using digital texts to investigate language systems, translations, stylistics etc.

The conference welcomes contributions from a broad range of researchers, designers and developers who work with digital archives of auditory and audiovisual media in the investigation or production of cultural history phenomena. All of these definitions shall be taken in their widest sense. A digital archive can range from enormous national archives to the archives collected by individual researchers and research groups. Similarly, the conference wishes to invite both concrete experience with collecting and using digital archives as well as theoretical reflections on the nature of digital archives. Likewise, the concepts of cultural history and cultural memory shall be taken in their broadest sense and can include both historical investigations and research within the broader humanities with either an historical or an aesthetic scope.

Papers

We welcome papers relating to the general outline of the above call. The conference will embrace three sub themes:  Interface (i.e. the construction, design and interface of the archive), Immensity (dealing with the vast amounts of data which all of a sudden are available to research that has heretofore tended to work qualitatively with rather small samples), Memory (choosing from the archives, sampling and building a coherent interpretation). Please indicate if your paper addresses one or two of the themes in particular.

Panels

Along with open and themed paper sessions, we have accepted a number of themed panels to take place at the conference.  A themed panel will consist of a minimum of 3 papers with a common research question. If you whish your paper to be taken under consideration for a particular panel, please select the panel as “category” in the Easy Chair submission form. Submissions not accepted for panels will be taken into consideration for the open paper sessions.

• The practices of exhibiting sound, organized by Christian Hviid Mortensen & Morten Søndergaard
• Infrastructural Sustainability and Curatorial Practices of the Digital Archive, organized by Luca Antoniazzi
• How to make radio and sound archives work for audiences? Organized by Zillah Watson
• Who keeps the memory? Organized by Teo Mäusli, Brecht Declercq & Petra van Dijk
• Challenging the homogeneity of ’media language’, organized by Jacob Thøgersen
• My Childhood Radios, organized by Henrik Reeh
• Transnational Radio Encounters, organized by Golo Föllmer & Jacob Kreutzfeldt
• Radio and Music/Music Radio, organized by Morten Michelsen

 

Submissions

Deadline for paper abstracts (max 200 words) 1 June 2013
Notification on acceptance will be given by the beginning of July 2013

Please send submissions via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=larm2013. Please forward the automatically generated submission confirmation to: conference@larm-archive.org.

We strongly encourage presentations of practice based and artistic projects.

Conference fee: 60 € (reduced price for students)

Affiliation

Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory is arranged by LARM Audio Research Archive. LARM is an interdisciplinary project, the goal of which is the production of a digital infrastructure to facilitate researchers’ access to the Danish radiophonic cultural heritage.

The LARM project is a collaboration between a number of research and cultural institutions: The University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Roskilde University, The University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg University, The Royal School of Library and Information Science, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, The State and University Library, Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation, Kolding School of Design and The Museum of Media.

The main purpose of LARM is to establish a digital archive with the appropriate tools and a bibliography to enable researchers to search and describe the many recordings of the radiophonic cultural heritage. Radio has played an important role in Danish lives and, today, radio broadcasts form an invaluable, yet untapped, source to Danish culture and history. LARM Audio Research Archive will allow access to thousands of hours of national and local radio broadcasts from 1925 and onwards and thus prepare them for future research.

LARM – Audio Research Archive: http://www.larm-archive.org/

Organisation

Organizers: Jacob Thøgersen, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Morten Michelsen, Per Jauert, Frederik Tygstrup & Bente Larsen

Scientific committee: Morten Søndergaard, Erik Granly, Ditte Laursen, Marianne Lykke, Birger Larsen, Erik Svendsen

Contact: for questions and enquiries please contact Jacob Kreutzfeldt (jacobk@hum.ku.dk) or Jacob Thøgersen (jthoegersen@hum.ku.dk)

Please consult the conferences website at: www.larm-archive.org/conference

Tag med radioprojektet LARM på Vallekilde Højskole og bliv reporter eller vært for en uge. Få inspiration fra nogle af landets dygtigste radiofolk inden for reportage, montage, drama og live radio og vær med til at forvandle højskolen til en pulserende radiostation med daglige udsendelser.

Kurset henvender sig både til folk med radioerfaring og dem, der vil prøve kræfter med mediet for første gang. Kurset er en uges lydlegeplads, hvor du undersøger verden med ørerne, fanger nuet og får tips til interviewteknik, optagelse og redigering. Alt sammen krydret med lyttebiograf og hyggeligt samvær.

Hele programmet kan ses her på siden inden længe.

CoSound is a strategic research project that focuses on methods and tools for an augmented audio experience and making the information actionable, i.e., enable users to interpret, organize, analyze, share, co-create, and facilitate story-telling and audio management. The project is led by the Technical University of Denmark – see this website for more information on the project and partners.

The PhD scholarship is associated to the work packages on Human-computer interactive modelling, crowd sourcing and evaluation and Music context analysis and end-use grounding, that both form integrated parts of the CoSound project. The overall purpose of the PhD project is to analyse and evaluate the automatic extraction techniques and results produced by CoSound, and to evaluate them in relation to real user needs and requirements in a music research setting. The focus should be on creating solutions for the design of personalized interaction mechanisms that can make information systems more usable and receptive to user needs by exploiting advanced interactive learning strategies and personalization (models of individuals) in combination with automatically extracted features from audio data. The project should extract representations of the user needs, and combine them with audio features based onmachine learning methods from user generated feedback striving to create and evaluate improved search and navigation based on models of individual users and groups of users. The case chosen for the project is music and music research. The PhD project is truly interdisciplinary. It should rely on methods from information science, including theories of information behaviour and methods to extract representations of the user needs, and to combine them with audio features based on machine learning methods from user generated feedback, as well as for instance genre and discourse analysis and studies of rhythm, intonation/melody, and other non-semantic aspects of music, speech and sound patterns.

The application should include a proposal outlining the overall aims and methodology of the PhD project as well as a time-plan. Follow the link for more information. Furthermore, it is expected that the candidates hold a Master´s degree or equivalent in a field relevant to information science and/or cultural studies. Programming experience, especially in interaction design and programming interfaces is a strong advantage. Experience in carrying out empirical studies is also an advantage. Fluency in English is required.
The project proposal is expected to focus on the themes outlined above in the description of the CoSound project and work packages.

For further information on the CoSound research project, please contact Associate Professor Birger Larsen (ftm448@iva.ku.dk) or Associate Professor Morten Michelsen (momich@hum.ku.dk).

For further information on the PhD programme at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, please contact PhD coordinator,Hans Dam Christensen (jbg621@iva.ku.dk).

The application deadline is August 1, 2013.

500 samtaler fra “De Ringer – Vi Spiller” er plottet ind på et Danmarkskort, dér hvor lytteren ringede fra. Kortet linker direkte til udsendelserne i radioarkivet (LARM.fm), så ved at klikke på kortet får man et indblik i, hvordan der faktisk tales på forskellige steder i Danmark.

Klik på kortet herunder for at læse mere og komme videre til det interaktive kort.

Dear ladies and gentlemen,
dear colleagues,
dear friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the 1st International Conference 
of the European Sound Studies Association ESSA with the title

FUNCTIONAL SOUNDS:
AUDITORY CULTURE & SOUND CONCEPTS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

which will take place from October 4 – 6 2013 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
in cooperation with the DFG research project Sound Studies Lab: Functional Sounds.

Please find the programme and the registration form on the ESSA website:
http://www.soundstudies.eu/2013conference/

We would be very happy if you could forward this announcement
to interested people within and outside academia.

Please apologise for crossposting.

With kind regards,

Morten Michelsen // Københavns Universitet/Denmark
Founding Chair of the ESSA

Holger Schulze // Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Founding Vice-Chair of the ESSA and
Principal Investigator of the Sound Studies Lab

Dublet’ – Værk for kirkeorgel
Sandra Boss og Jonas Olesen
Onsdag den 5. juni, kl. 20.00

Onsdag den 5. juni danner Blågårdskirken ramme for en utraditionel orgelkoncert, hvor kirkens gamle pneumatiske orgel fra 1926 forstærkes og fordobles. Jonas Olesen og Sandra Boss udforsker orglets klanglige dybder og afkroge for at skabe en ’tilstand af lyd’ i kirkerummet.

Jonas Olesen og Sandra Boss er begge elektroniske komponister og spiller her en improviseret koncert, hvor orglet møder et højtalersetup med subtilt manipulede optagelser af sig selv.

Entré: 60 kr

Koncertkirken, Blågårdsplads
http://www.koncertkirken.dk/

Det er ingen kunst i dag at få adgang til at søge i store digitale tekstkorpusser, men hvad kan man forvente at finde i korpusserne, og hvordan skal man bære sig ad for at finde det? Korpuslingvistikken har udviklet sig med rivende hast gennem de seneste årtier og dyrkes ikke længere kun blandt en lille kreds af specialister, men er blevet mainstream. Storstilede humanistiske infrastrukturprojekter lægger op til at alle og enhver skal kunne bygge korpusser selv, men hvad kan man overhovedet med et korpus, hvad kan man ikke, og hvad kræver det af brugeren eller selvbyggeren? Hvordan undgår humanister at ende som digitale amatører? I oplægget vil jeg diskutere hvad et korpus er, hvilke forskellige typer der findes, og hvilke overvejelser man har brug for at gøre sig, for at kunne få et fornuftigt udbytte af at bruge dem. Jeg vil give eksempler på konkrete undersøgelser og diskutere deres metoder og resultatfortolkning.

Dette er det ottende og sidste foredrag i en serie om ’metoder og perspektiver i digitaliseret humaniora’. Alle er velkomne.