Sonic Media and Ways of Hearing, with Milena Droumeva from SFU

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#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 7: Sonic Media and Ways of Hearing, with Milena Droumeva from Simon Fraser University

In this episode, I speak with Milena Droumeva, professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, about how our relationship with sound is shaped by culture, the audio in audio/visual media literacy and the role technology plays in mediating our acoustic environments.

Milena Droumeva, Assistant Professor of Communication and Glenfraser Endowed professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University specializing in mobile technologies, sound studies and multimodal ethnography, with a long-standing interest in game cultures and gender. She has worked extensively in educational research on game-based learning, as well as in interaction design for responsive environments and sonification. Milena is a sound studies scholar, a multimodal ethnographer, and a soundwalking enthusiast, published widely in the areas of acoustic ecology, media and game studies, design and technology. 

Her current SSHRC-funded project is called “Livable Soundscapes” and it explores best practices for soundscape design in cities and civic participation approaches to storytelling with sound. She is co-editor of a newly published edited collection “Sound, Media, Ecology” with Palgrave Macmillan which updates practices and theories of acoustic ecology through the work of contemporary researchers. Milena has been working on sonification for public engagement since 2015, crossing over cultural studies of sound and data representation.

Milena at TedTalks -Sounding out Sexism in Video Games- https://www.ted.com/talks/milena_droumeva_sounding_out_sexism_in_video_games

Milena on twitter: @natuaural

Milena’s website is  natuaural.com

More on Milena’s work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milena-droumeva-46415010/


SHOW NOTES

R. Murray Schafer, The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project, Simon Fraser University - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

World Soundscape Project Archive, Toronto Niennial of Art - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/r-murray-schafer-emc

About Simond Fraser University’s Music and Sound programs - https://www.sfu.ca/sca/programs/music---sound.html

Professor Barry Truax - https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/

Sound Ecology: A web documentary on noise pollution and our inability to endure silence, National Film Board of Canada - https://www.nfb.ca/interactive/sound_ecology/

Bringing Sound into Urban Public Place Design, McGill, Urban Sound Symposium - https://urban-sound-symposium.org/USS2019/slides/305_Christine_Kerrigan.pdf

Listening as Intervention; Livable Soundscapes, Milena Droumeva - https://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/currentprojects.html

The media literacy movement’s debt to Marshall McLuhan - Alexandar Kuskis, University of Toronto - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298794462_The_media_literacy_movement%27s_debt_to_Marshall_McLuhan

About Foley (Filmmaking) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)

Foley artist shows how sounds effects are made - youtube/E0pOLuklB4s

How to add sound to TikTok videos - Get Savvy with Social - https://getsavvywithsocial.com/how-to-add-sound-to-tiktok-videos/

Buzzfeed Listicles on sound - https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/photos-you-can-here-just-by-looking-at-them

The Social Dilemma, IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/

Sound memes - https://www.memesoundboard.com

The Social Dilemma, Milena Droumeva - Sounding out Sexism in Video Games -kjnhttps://www.ted.com/talks/milena_droumeva_sounding_out_sexism_in_video_games?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

New Wireless Noise-Canceling Tech Is Faster Than the Speed of Sound - https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/noisecanceling-techs-edge-is-faster-than-the-speed-of-sound

Headphone transparency mode on AirPods, Bose, Sony and more: How and when to use it, CNET - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/headphone-transparency-mode-on-airpods-bose-sony-and-more-how-and-when-to-use-it/

The COVIDvoice Project Share your voice. Crush COVID. - https://covidvoice.net

What is lithotripsy?, Hopkins Medicine - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/lithotripsy

#MeToo Sonification Excerpts, Milena Droumeva - https://soundcloud.com/ambient-sonic/sets/metoo-sonification-excerpts

Sounding Out Blog - https://soundstudiesblog.com

Radio Aporee - sound archives https://aporee.org/

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