What Sounds Do

Sounds are ever present. They envelop and move through us in every single moment. What agencies drive those sounds? What personae are performed, in historical periods as well as in the near future? What new social relations occur as a result? In this four-day conference researchers from the Sound Studies Lab at the University of Copenhagen and international scholars such as Andrey Smirnov, Jordan Lacey and artists like Ayesha Hameed or Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard explore these questions of an anthropology of sound. Keynote lectures by Salomé Voegelin and Dylan Robinson, workshops by Jenny Gräf Sheppard, Ania Mauruschat, and Giada Dalla Bontà as well as roundtable discussions contribute to the Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, currently developed by Michel Bull, Jennifer Stoever and Holger Schulze.