The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.

During the Spring term 2009, we will be reading and discussing a number of key texts in sound theory. All meetings are in room 308, School of English and Humanities Building, 30 Russell Square, London WC1

Monday 26th January, 12.00
Jacques Attali, ‘Recording’, from Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985)

Monday 9 February, 12.00
Michel Serres, ‘Boxes’, from The Five Senses, trans. Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley (London: Continuum, 2008)

Monday 23 February, 12.00
Alain Corbin, Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside, trans. Martin Thom (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press), pp. 95-158, 298-308

Monday 23 March, 12.00
T.W. Adorno, ‘The Radio Symphony’, ‘The Curves of the Needle’, Music in the Background’, from Essays on Music, ed. Richard Leppert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Aesthetic Theory, ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (London: Athlone, 1997), pp. 225-29, 248-54, 258-61; Minima Moralia: Reflections From A Damaged Life, trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (London: Verso, 1978), p. 247

If you would like to join the London Sound Seminar or help develop its activities, please contact Steven Connor