The Continuum of words, voice and music.

This text offers some principal and methodogical issues on studies of timbre in words, music and vocal performance. Timbral relationships between word and music can be conceptualized as a continuum following an fictive axis running from meaning and timbre of words, through melody and music to performance. Sometimes the order might be different, but the ingredients will always be there. To get a grip on the totality of timbre and meaning involved in the songs and performances of one single artist, Swedish balladeer Olle Adolphson, a study was conducted along this research design. The interplay between the inherent timbres in vowel sounds and melody were firstly studied in the songs themselves and relationships were noted that showed signs of systematic appearance. Perspectives from these observations were intergrated with analyzes of timbral bearings on meaning and signification in words and musical settings of a number of songs. Following the axis to performance, aspects of timbre were studied with aid of visual representations of the signal as waveforms, melograms and spectograms, verifying observations and as tools for identification and discussion. The study points further towards timbre and emotional cues in vocal performances as signs of individual/envi¬r¬o¬ment interactions

Sound, mind and emotion - research and aspects

Sound, mind and emotion Rapport nr 8 (seminarier 1 jan, 11 april resp 25 maj 2008) Innehåll: Patrik Juslin: Sound of music - Seven ways in which the brain can evoke emotions from sounds, Ulf Rosenhall: Auditory problems - not only an issue of impaired hearing, Sören Nielzén, Olle Olsson, Johan Källstrand & Sara Nehlstedt: The role of psychoacoustics for the research on neuro-psychiatric states - Theoretical basis of the S-Detect method, Gerhard Andersson: Tinnitus and Hypersensititvity to Sounds, Kerstin Persson - Waye: "It sounds like a buzzing wasp in my head" - children's perspective of the sound environment in pre-schools, Björn Lyxell, Erik Borg & Inga-Stina Olsson: Cognitive skills and perceived effort in active and passive listening in a naturalistic sound environment, Åke Iwar: Sound, Catastrophy and Trauma, Kerstin Bergh Johannesson: Sounds as triggers - How traumatic memories can be processed by Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. 138

Förföriska ljud

Foreword to texts on sound design by Kristine Jörgensen: Musikk og lyd i dataspill, Adam Arvidsson: Operationella ljud, medievetenskapliga perspektiv, Ulf Tureson: Kommusikation, Mikael Strömberg: Ljud och manipulation

Buller i blåsväder : texter om ljud från vindkraftverk

Gösta Bluhm, Institutet för miljömedicin, Karolinska Institutet: Ljudstress, vindkraft och hälsa, Eja Pedersen, Halmstad Högskola & Lunds universitet: Närboendes upplevelser av ljud från vindkraftverk, Stefan Larsson, Rättssociologi, Lunds universitet: Vindkraftsutbyggnaden – vem bestämmer och baserat på vilken kunskap? Erik Skärbäck, avdelningen för landskapsarkitektur SLU, Alnarp: Hur mycket vindkraft tål det svenska landskapet? Christian Sejer Pedersen, Henrik Møller, Steffen Pedersen, Akustik, Aalborg Universitet, Danmark: En analyse av lavfrekvent støy fra store vindmøllor, Bertil Persson, tekn. Dr, docent i byggnadsmaterial, Bara: Skyddsavstånd till bostad vid bulleremission från vindkraftverk. 94

Ord om Ljud : Skriftställare om ljudmiljöer och ljud

Så vad kan det innebära att skriva om ljud och ljudmiljöer? Hur förvandlas eller tolkas ett medium av ett annat? Skriftställaren, akustikern, musikforskaren, litteraturvetaren, journalisten måste alla brottas med uppgiften att skriva om ljud. Ljudmiljöcentrum samlar i denna volym ett antal skriftställares tankar om ord om ljud.Medverkande: Anders Mildner, Johan Stenström, Annika J Lindskog, Louise Wassdahl, Mikael Strömberg och Ola Stockfelt.Förord av Mats Arvidso

Virtualiteter : sex essäer

Sex forskare från olika humanistiska discipliner skriver varsin essä kring temat virtualitet

Ljudmiljö, hälsa och stadsbyggnad

Texter om Ljudmiljö, hälsa och stadsbyggnad av Björn Hellström, Gunnar Cerwén, Patrik Grahn, Peter Währborg, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Jonas Björk, Jonathan Stoltz m.fl. Förord av Erik Skärbäc

Taube och Olle Adolphson

Adolphson has grown up in the shadows (and light) of Evert Taube litterarily since he from childhood been a friend of Evert Taubes son Sven Bertil. He has gone deep into the songs and poetry of Evert Taube. This study focuses on the phychological impact Adolphson inherited from Taube as well as the darker sides of the personalit

STM 2004

Review on Brocken book on Brittish Folk Music, Folk Reviva

Interdisciplinary Studies and sound environmental comprehension

Listening Lund Sound environment centre at Lund university in Sweden is known to be the first interdisciplinary centre created with an aim to coordinate research on sound and sound environmental issues. Ranging från acoustics to medicin to juridics as well to humanities as musicology and ethnology sound environmental research adresses many interdepentent areas and topics. To be able to get a more complete comprehension our soundscapes these have to be synchronised and be put in relation to each other. Interdisciplinary research of this kind is however adressing problems such as administrative, organizational and economical. How do we get researchers from disciplines to work together, to take of their precious time and sometimes even having to compete with the own disciplines and individual institutions for research funding. One of the main problems is: How to develop an organizational framework for interdisciplinary cooperation on soundscape issues that will be satisfying to both researchers and public