Sound and Epistemology
The course Sound and Epistemology explores the relationship between sound and knowledge by treating listening as an epistemological tool and understanding sound as a carrier, generator, and disruptor of knowledge. Through readings, discussions, and practice-based methods such as soundscape analysis, soundwalks, audification, and sonification, students examine the role of sound in scientific, artistic, and sociopolitical contexts.
Key Topics:
• Listening as an epistemological device (situated, embodied, forensic, and political listening practices).
• Soundscape analysis and soundwalks as countermapping (critical engagement with spatial narratives through listening and recording).
• Sonification and audification (transforming data into sound and critically examining its epistemological significance).
Students create short essays and sonic works (e.g., recordings, sound maps, sonifications) to explore how sound produces and challenges knowledge. Selected essays and sonic works may be further developed, compiled into a publication, and presented as part of the Summaery.
The course will be in a dialogue with the Fachmodule “Composing Senses” where some of the theoretical discussion will be transformed into practical sound experiments.
Lehrende: Dr. Marcin Pietruszewski, Eleftherios Krysalis