All Outputs (22)

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (2021)
Book

Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines brings together writing by 20 researchers from across Europe and South-East Asia on the slippery but fascinating topic of noise. What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with... Read More about Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines.

Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City (2021)
Journal Article

Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future (2021)
Journal Article

This article surveys the field and methodology of historical acoustemology, an interdisciplinary area of study dedicated to understanding past sounds, hearers, and listeners in their historical contexts. The article charts the field’s emergence in th... Read More about Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future.

Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter (2020)
Book Chapter

Noise (2020)
Book Chapter

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

Sound and Place: Digital Mapping and Community Listening Practice: project report for National Science and Media Museum (2020)
Report

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Conference Proceeding

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.

Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (2019)
Book

"It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced" – MADAME BLAVATSKY With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, Helena Blavatsky drew a direct connection to the dynamic energy of nineteen... Read More about Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West.

Introduction: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (2019)
Book Chapter

Optical enchantment: Oskar Fischinger and visual music (2019)
Book Chapter

Ways of hearing: sound, culture and history (2018)
Book Chapter

Organising Sound: how a research network might help structure an exhibition (2017)
Journal Article

‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the 1935 Science Museum temporary exhibition on Noise Abatement, situating it in the sound historical context of inter-war Britain, and making an argument that the ‘way of hearing’ it advanced was part of an attempt to shape aud... Read More about ‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum.

The age of noise in Britain: Hearing modernity (2016)
Book

© 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. Sound transformed British life in the “age of noise” between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to... Read More about The age of noise in Britain: Hearing modernity.

Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Inter-war Campaign against Noise (2014)
Book Chapter

Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity (2012)
Journal Article

Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism (2011)
Book Chapter

Writing on the eve of the First World War, the French philosopher Julien Benda concluded that music had become ‘a profound signature of the modern spirit’.1 According to Benda, this obsession was responsible for the anti-intellectual culture of moder... Read More about Sound and the Cultural Politics of Time in the Avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis’s Critique of Bergsonism.

Sound and the cultural politics of time in the avant-garde: Wyndham Lewis's critique of Bergsonism (2011)
Book Chapter