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Upcoming activities The Sound Environment Center annually organises symposias, workshops or networking meetings in areas related to sound environment and where researchers and interested people from different disciplines are invited to speak and meet. Watch our seminars and activities on YouTube
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities - 2026-08-25
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES NIKOLAOS GEORGIOS VARDAXIS Acoustics refers to the science of sound, its properties and propagation, while the same term is often used to refer to sound qualities of an environment, an indoor space or somewhere outdoors. This lecture offers an introduction to basic acoustic concepts such as sound pressure levels, which is the most essential quantity when de
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/introduction-acoustic-concepts-relevant-sound-studies - 2026-08-25
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES CARLA J. MAIER This talk will address politics of sound and ethics of listening by situating sound studies and music within postcolonial theory, popular culture and ethnographic practice.Drawing from Maier’s book Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation, she will discuss the concrete sonic techniques and performati
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES SANNE KROGH GROTH The talk introduces to the artistic field of sound art and how it relates to sound studies. Within sound art we find many artists working as or imitating the practices of researchers. In this type of work, the artistic idea is driven by a (research) question and the artistic process is designed as an experiment, but the outcome is ideally
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/sound-laboratories-artistic-practice - 2026-08-25
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES EMILIE STROH The talk will guide you through sound and noise's different impact on physiological and psychological health and wellbeing.How, where and to what kind of noise are we exposed? How will this affect our current, and future, health? What are the noise effects for the society, population and individual?Why do we experience noise and sounds differen
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/physiological-and-psychological-impact-sound-and-noise - 2026-08-25
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES MERI KYTÖ This lecture will tackle themes of listening and sensory agency in everyday spaces that are affected or produced by code. We will examine issues of sensory experience, attention and distraction in relation to different kinds of media technologies and machine listening. See the lecture MERI KYTÖ Meri Kytö is a senior researcher and an adjunct profe
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/talk-machine-listening-smart-spaces - 2026-08-25
Research support and incentive funding The Sound Environment Centre regularly announces grants to support researchers and employees at Lund University in expanding their knowledge in the fields of sound and sound environments. Current announcements are published on this page. We don't currently have an application round open. In spring 2026, we announced grants in the following categories:Grants
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research-and-funding - 2026-08-25
WELCOME TO SIT DOWN ON THE SOUND BENCH The sound work "Taking Seat" by Robert Willim, will be experienced from a specially designed ‘sound bench’ placed outside Skissernas Museum. Combining manipulations of words and field recordings the work reflects practices of sitting. What are the forces set in motion by sitting? What are the technologies and techniques of sitting? Anthropologists argue that
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/taking-seat - 2026-08-25
Sound Installation by Tove Möller. Skissernas Museum, Lund, October 12–18 2020. Tove Möller has been inspired by the justice movement towards giving a legal right status to water. Rivers in New Zealand, Bangladesh, India and Colombia have gained these rights the past years but how their voices will be expressed is not yet fully clear. The Ocean, the Mire, the Brook, the Plash and the River are gat
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/light-flowing-circumstances - 2026-08-25
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA FROM THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE The Sound Environment Centre’s publications are published in a publication series. Our published works include seminar proceedings and research reports. The texts in the report series are produced in connection with interdisciplinary seminars organised by the centre on matters concerning sound and sound environments in our society. Most of o
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/communication - 2026-08-25
Book Launch: Negotiating Noise Subversion in sound arts Listening to Everyday Sounds The Sound Bench: The Garden The Sound Bench: Wave The Sound Bench: Metamorphosis An Attuning Approach to Sound Art and Design in Public Spaces Exploring visual art auditively Sonic affordances : the perception of density and calm in Indian cities Publication: Negotiating Noise Traces of Sound
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021 - 2026-08-25
What is sound when it is not perceived as audible? How does it affect us? What can it tell us and reveal? And how do you investigate it? At a half-day seminar with invited speakers, the Sound Environment Center at Lund University, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and The Royal Swedish Academy of Music, focuses on "inaudible" sound. We will hear about music archeology's
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/traces-sound - 2026-08-25
Postal AddressThe Sound Environment Centre at Lund UniversityDepartment of Arts and Cultural SciencesBox 192221 00 LundSwedenInternal mailing code at Lund University: 30 Visiting AddressDepartment of Arts and Cultural Sciences, LUXHouse C, level 3: Department of Arts and Cultural SciencesHelgonavägen 3Lund, Sweden DirectorPhilip Doddsdirector [at] lmc [dot] lu [dot] se (director[at]lmc[dot]lu[do
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/contact - 2026-08-25
The application period is closed Grants for writing research applications in the field of sound and sound environmentsThe announced amount of incentive funding for writing project applications for research in sound and sound environments is SEK 50,000 per application and will be paid as a lump sum to the main applicant's department upon receipt of the submitted application. Interdisciplinary proj
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research-and-funding/incentive-funding-research-applications - 2026-08-25
The application period is closed Grants for organising activitiesThe grant aims to enable employees at Lund University to organise activities and invite guests with the aim of raising awareness of sound and sound environments. The activities may be aimed at an academic audience and/or the general public. Examples of activities include seminars, lectures, conferences, exhibitions or events in coll
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research-and-funding/call-proposals-grants-organise-activities - 2026-08-25
For several years Jonna Hägg has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. In many landscapes, anthropophony dominates and drowns out the sounds of nature. Everything we build, our machines, engines and houses create new sounds that are integrated into the
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/garden - 2026-08-25
VISUALISATION OF SOUND IN SOCIETY, RESEARCH, ART & MUSIC 2019-05-24 Sound Environment Centre's "See the Sound - visualisation of sound in society, research, art & music" seminar Visual representations of sound have become both important and common with the digitization of sound and signal processing and is today a tool for managing and studying the world of sound. Visual representations of sound a
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2019/see-sound - 2026-08-25
THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE’S PUBLICATION SERIES The Sound Environment Centre’s publications are published in a publication series. All our publications can be downloaded at OBLU (Open Books at Lund University). Link to OBLU The texts in the report series are produced in connection with interdisciplinary seminars organised by the centre on matters concerning sound and sound environments in our so
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/media/publications - 2026-08-25
FREE ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: MAY 20 - MAY 21, 2021 The symposium brings together researchers, cultural workers, and artists to address topics around the auditive exploration of art, the use of sound, etc. in the context of visual primacy. It will include presentations of existing, ongoing and planned projects, and shall particularly give room to the discussion of related challenges and possibilities. Ex
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Marie Koldkjær Højlund Webinar 22 september 13:15-15:00 "Working with sound design, music composition and sound art in various public spaces and across art forms call for an ecological and enactive methodology entailing investigations of actors and their interrelations with their respective environments as attuning and explorative agents. Based on my Ph.D.
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/attuning-approach-sound-art-and-design-public-spaces - 2026-08-25
