Sound and Anthropology

Programme

Introductions
	Professor Steven Feld, University of New Mexico Keynote Speech: Birds, bells, car horns: acoustemologies across New Guinea, Europe, Africa
	Professor David Toop, LCC Introduction to the Conference Theme: Listening Beneath Surfaces and Through Spaces
Human Sound and Environment 1
	Professor Wendy James, University of Oxford and Dr Judith Aston, University of the West of England Social Sounds: collaborative rhythms in work, music and language among Uduk speaking people (Sudan/Ethiopia)
	Peter Cusack, London, College of Communications Favourite sounds of London and Beijing
	Viv Corringham Shadow-walks in Minnesota, USA and County Cork, Ireland
	Dr Andrew Whitehouse, University of Aberdeen Towards an Anthropology of Birdsounds
Human Sound Interaction
	Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh Analysing Musicality of Sound and Gesture in Communication with Infants: finding the pulse of sociability
	Dr Tom Rice, Goldsmiths College Stethoscapes: Acoustemologies of the body in a London hospital
	Dr John Wynne, LCC Hearts, Lungs and Minds
	Dr Sara Walmsley-Pledl, Queens University, Belfast Truth, rhythm and water: the implications of a physical conceptualisation of music
	Dr Nathan Porath, Aberdeen University Attracting the Caged Bird of Consciousness: sound in the Performance of shamanic Healing in an Indigenous Sumatran Community
Sound, Silence and the Built Environment
	Dr Rupert Cox, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology The Sound of One Hand Clapping: an investigation of the acoustic dimensions of sociality in a Zen temple neighbourhood of Kyoto city, Japan
	George McQuitty, University of St Andrews On the Far Side of the Moon
	Louise K Wilson, University of Derby Sounding out the Cold War: Spadeadam and Orford Ness
	Jim Lutz, University of Memphis Turn it up Daedalus and Let’s See if it Rattles: Recent transgressions by Architects and Sound Artists
Voice, Oral History and Archives
	Peter Morin, performer and sound artist from British Columbia Performance with Sweetgrass, Liquor, Dirt and Sound Tapes
	Fiona-Jane Brown, Elphinstone Institute, Aberdeen Magic Words, Magic Ways: Recording and researching reasons for supernatural ritual amongst North-East Scotland’s fishermen
	Patrick Sutherland, LCC The Spiti Sound Archive in Northern India
	James Wyness, University of Aberdeen Field recordings from Jedburgh: midsummer celebrations through the ears of a sound artist
	Dr John Wynne, LCC Hearing Voices
Sound and Environment 2
	Dr Henry Stobart, Royal Holloway Ringing, Rocks and Roosters: communicating with the landscape in the Bolivian Andes
Sound Exchange-Moving Sound: Representation and Methodology
	Dr Barbara Truffin, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Felix Luque, Pompa Fabra University SkateOscope
	Dr Raymond Lucas, University of Edinburgh Chion’s Acousmêtre in Transit Space
	Moushumi Bhowmik, India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore Moving with the Song
	David Chapman, University of East London Hark
Plenary session
	Professor Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen Summary of Conference Proceedings

The conference also saw presentations by:

Dr Mikhail Karikis, Middlesex University
Humming within the Urban Soundscape
Dr Alex King, University of Aberdeen
Shamanism
Nalle, musicians, artists and art therapists from University of Glasgow
Metamorphosis and Interaction: the song of the soundscape
Sara Davidmann, Wimbledon School of Art
Gender Echoes: the experience of sound and transsexual presentations of the self

sound and anthropology

Programme

Introductions

Human Sound and Environment 1

Human Sound Interaction

Sound, Silence and the Built Environment

Voice, Oral History and Archives

Sound and Environment 2

Sound Exchange-Moving Sound: Representation and Methodology

Plenary session