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SUMMARY:Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Janet Cardiff
 \, Eric Clarke\, Michael Bull\, Graham Jeffrey\, Jacob Kreutzfeldt\, Julia
 na Hodkinson\, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner
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CONTACT:Benjamin Morris
DESCRIPTION:Over the past year\, the Cambridge University City Seminar at 
 CRASSH has explored diverse and enlivening topics in the study of cities\,
  urban space\, architecture\, and visual and material culture. These topic
 s have ranged widely in time and space\, from predictions for the age of t
 he supermetropolis to the use of digital technology in architectural space
  to an analysis of Mussolini's use of Rome's imperial past in the construc
 tion of its present.\nOut of these encounters emerged an aspiration to all
 ow for a more intense investigation of a particular area within this field
 . This will find its preliminary culmination in a one-day conference to be
  hosted by the City Seminar organisers at CRASSH in Lent term 2008. Taking
  as its theme the intersection of sound and the city\, this seminar seeks 
 to present theoretical\, artistic and empirical accounts of the complex re
 lationships between acoustics\, sensory awareness and performance in the c
 ontext of urban space\, landscape and the built environment (historic and 
 contemporary). But the concepts of 'sound' and 'the city' are only intende
 d to serve as departure points for more creative reflections on\, or inter
 ventions into\, this theme. A discussion of sound could well include an ac
 count of silence\, just as a description of a city or urban space might we
 ll ask where the city ends and its other begins. Consequently\, we expect 
 an eclectic and illuminating discussion stemming from a variety of differi
 ng disciplines and backgrounds and forming previously unimagined connectio
 ns.
LOCATION:CRASSH Seminar Room\, 17 Mill Lane
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