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.

All meetings are in room 308, Department of English and Humanities Building, 30 Russell Square, London WC1

Animals and Sound

Monday 15th February, 4.00-6.00
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, ‘Of the Refrain’, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (London: Athlone, 1988), pp. 310-50.

Monday 8 March, 4.00-6.00
Donald R. Griffin, Listening in the Dark: The Acoustic Orientation of Bats and Men (New York: Dover; London: Constable, 1974). Extracts to be supplied.

Monday 22 March, 4.30-6.30
Oliver Messiaen, Oiseaux exotiques, (1955–56), Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956–58)
Emily Doolittle, ‘Animals in the Concert Hall: A History of Animals in Western Music’, Revista Transcultural de Música/Transcultural Music Review, 12 (2008)
If you would like to join the London Sound Seminar or help develop its activities, please contact Steven Connor