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Aural and Visual Cultures

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Aural and Visual Cultures is an interdisciplinary field that examines the interplay between sound and visual media in shaping human experiences, identities, and social practices. It explores how auditory and visual elements influence perception, communication, and cultural expression across various contexts and technologies.
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Aural and Visual Cultures is an interdisciplinary field that examines the interplay between sound and visual media in shaping human experiences, identities, and social practices. It explores how auditory and visual elements influence perception, communication, and cultural expression across various contexts and technologies.

Key research themes

1. How do cultural backgrounds shape perceptual and neural processing in aural and visual modalities?

This research theme explores how cultural context influences the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying auditory and visual perception, including cross-modal sensory integration. Understanding these effects illuminates how culturally shaped experiences modulate perceptual representations and brain activity, advancing theories of sensory cognition and informing approaches in multicultural education, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction.

Key finding: Using fMRI and multivoxel pattern analysis, this study showed that individuals from East Asian and American cultural backgrounds exhibited distinct patterns of neural representations in visual cortical areas (Brodmann areas... Read more
Key finding: By employing inter-subject correlation analysis of fMRI data during naturalistic audiobook listening, the study found higher synchronization of hemodynamic activity in auditory, language-related, and visual imagery brain... Read more
Key finding: Behavioral experiments demonstrated that bilingual individuals experience the McGurk effect—a classic audiovisual speech integration phenomenon—more robustly than monolinguals. This heightened audiovisual integration was not... Read more

2. What roles do auditory culture, sound studies, and ecological sound perception play in understanding human auditory experience beyond representational and ontological approaches?

This theme investigates the interdisciplinary frameworks and critiques regarding the study of sound, contrasting 'auditory culture' and 'sound studies' with philosophical ontologies of sound. It emphasizes understanding how sound functions in cultural, social, and ecological contexts rather than solely as an ontological entity. This approach enriches the analysis of human auditory experience by incorporating socio-cultural and environmental factors.

Key finding: This paper critically examines the 'ontological turn' in sound studies, particularly the Deleuzian-inspired ontologies of sound proposed by Goodman, Cox, and Hainge. It argues that these ontological approaches neglect the... Read more
Key finding: The author defends a complementary relation between ontology and cultural analysis in sound studies, critiquing the conflation of ontology with colonialism and racism. The essay advocates for recognizing ontological... Read more
Key finding: Through qualitative analysis of participants’ reports on complex soundscapes containing auditory displays, this pilot study highlights the importance of ecological validity and cultural context in auditory display design and... Read more

3. How do sensory and multisensory experiences, including emotional and cultural factors, shape human interactions with aural and visual stimuli in urban and natural environments?

This theme focuses on the psychophysiological and cognitive interplay between sensory modalities, such as vision and audition, in the perception of environments enriched or degraded by natural and artificial elements. It addresses how multisensory integration and cultural differences affect emotional responses, well-being, and environmental assessments, offering insights into design, urban planning, and cross-cultural psychology.

Key finding: Combining psychophysical and physiological measurements, the study evidenced that natural visual contexts enhance auditory pleasantness judgments of urban soundscapes and vice versa. Measures such as heart rate and facial... Read more
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Key finding: This cross-cultural developmental study demonstrated that 3-to-6-year-old American and Chinese children exhibit consistent emotional responses to manipulated environmental sounds via acoustic attributes such as pitch,... Read more
Key finding: By analyzing linguistic cross-cultural data, this paper reveals intrinsic limits and cultural variability in how sensory experiences are described and conceptualized across languages. The study shows that language both... Read more

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This essay explores the intersections between hypnosis, poetic imagination, and human consciousness, drawing inspiration from Gaston Bachelard’s reflections in The Wakeful Sleeper. Far from being a mere secondary function, imagination is... more
Le paysage est abordé de manière linéaire par ses utilisateurs. Que ce soit à pied, à cheval, en voiture … on se déplace linéairement dans le paysage et on le perçoit donc le long d'itinéraires : le déplacement et le rythme qu'il induit... more
El artículo analiza el habla del expresidente de México, An-drés Manuel López Obrador, como expresión narrativa melodramática que articula los imaginarios de vida históricamente excluidos por la economía escrituraria. Propone... more
Nelle pagine che seguono, verrà fornita una prima introduzione al metodo dell’analisi narrativa applicata ai Vangeli. Si tratta – nella prima parte – di una presentazione sommaria dei principali conce!i implicati nel metodo, corredati da... more
Far from functioning merely as accompaniment or effect, sound can deeply inform its visual counterpart, sometimes even calling for its withdrawal. This creates a tension that holds particular significance in the formal choices of various... more
This article focuses on the role of the visual aspects in the poetics of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), an avant-garde poet who, in the 1930s, became the so-called absurdist writer. The reminiscences of Kazimir Malevich’s art that we can find... more
LA TEMPORALITE AU RALENTI ET LA SPATIALITE L'UTILISATION DU MEDIUM PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ENTRE LA MISE EN SCENE ET LE STYLE DOCUMENTAIRE
This paper looks at Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) through the eyes of Walter Benjamin, reading the film in conjunction with his classic cultural studies essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). It... more
Nota publicada en la revista Jusur (año 2, número 2), editada por la Muslim World League, con sede central ubicada en Roma. La nota explora los modos en que las personas ciegas se ubican, mueven e interrelacionan con otros sujetos en los... more
In order for the renewal of classical cities and traditional culture to be successful, it must be accompanied by the richness of classical architecture. We need museums, courthouses, city halls, libraries, theaters, symphony halls, post... more
This essay explores the equivalence of various, occasionally contradictory and hybrid perceptions of materiality experienced in physical and non-physical contact. This includes the manifestation of materiality, such as the shadow of an... more
Les images reproduites ici sont des détails prélevés sur des images de la série photographique TR 34 ; ISTANBUL, créée par Maria Sewcz à Istanbul durant la période extrêmement tendue qui s’étend entre la tentative d’un coup d’état en... more
This paper explores women’s expression, pleasure, skill, and individuality in tepsijanje practices of singing accompanied by the spinning of a copper tray, both past and present. It examines how these practices, often occurring in private... more
caráter de marco referencial de uma determinada realidade histórica. Entendemos que tais imagens têm em comum a relação que estabeleceram com o arquivo de memórias e experiências das sociedades retratadas construindo, para este público,... more
Dans cet article, nous proposons une réflexion sémiotique sur le concept d’identité afin d’articuler les subjectivités discursives avec les sémioses expérientielle et communicationnelle. Nous prendrons appui sur la proposition théorique... more
Dans le cadre d’un projet universitaire soumis à la faculté de Rennes, ce travail explore le paradoxe ontologique de l’horizon afin de comprendre l’origine du sentiment de fascination que peut susciter une peinture de paysage. À travers... more
Resumen: La crítica literaria francesa del siglo veinte está marcada por embargo, su diálogo nunca fue fácil y la impresión es que entre ellos nunca hubo un encuentro. Tomando 1953 como un año crucial, este artículo intentará situar tanto... more
Beginning with a consideration of the special architectural environment and setting of the Abbey Church in Conques, this analysis outlines the method of data collection, production and recording of an impulse response, and the formula and... more
Quiero aclarar, en primer término, que este artículo no tiene un formato de contenido específicamente académico, sino que es una invitación a la reflexión. Si la lectura pudiera conducir a mayores profundizaciones en términos académicos,... more
Psychoacoustics is a very ancient branch of science whose origins date back to ancient times. However, it got this name about a hundred years ago. In general, it corresponds to the concept of "auditory perception". It is studied under the... more
Book Review: Black Noise: Technologies of the Sound Diaspora by Brian D’Aquino
La instalación «Fósil acústico» de los artistas Santiago Reyes Villaveces y Daniel Villegas Vélez transforma el espacio de exposición al interior de las murallas de Cartagena en una cámara de resonancia—un medio ambiente sonoro... more
littérature et pratiques rituelles : le statut sémiotique des signes mystiques Résumé : cet article s'inscrit dans notre projet de recherche portant sur l'analyse des pratiques sociales telles qu'elles sont configurées dans la trame des... more
Voilà la dimension politique de la relation entre image et texte et de leur disposition lorsque les paupières se ferment. Seul celui qui cesse de regarder peut commencer à agir. La compassion générée par les images crée une communauté... more
Se busca demostrar la existencia de una socialidad puramente sonora que no es producida por una personalidad o una idiosincrasia –aunque esta atravesada por ellas–, sino por condiciones espaciales de proximidad y distancia. Asi, se... more
Revue interdisciplinaire d'études hispaniques médiévales et modernes 48 | Juin 2024 Animaux et violence (Époques médiévale et moderne) / Porosités et circulations dans les espaces d'enfermement (XVI e-XVII e siècles)
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen raja- ja aunuksenkarjalaisilta 1900-luvun vaihteen molemmin puolin muistiinmerkittyä kanteleimprovisaatiota, runolaulukulttuurin kanteleperinteen ylirajaista olemusta ja taustaa sekä perinteen muuntumista... more
L'article fait l'hypothèse que la peinture, généralement assimilée à la représentation, doit plutôt être considérée comme une métamorphose. La métamorphose étant adoptée comme modèle théorique afin d'argumenter la capacité de... more
During the first two decades of new millennium Serbian frula playing has been transformed from traditional to neotraditional practice, grew from aural to digitally mediated musical expression and shifted from a relative continuity with... more
On commence par examiner la question de la singularité pour établir le lien qu'elle entretient avec la complexité.On aborde alors dans le cadre d'une sémiotique multi-points de vue leproblème de la coexistence de singularités multiples.... more
Admettons comme définition minimale, voire minimaliste, du mot « science » qu'il se rapporte à un ensemble de discours, de théories et de pratiques soumis à une intention de connaissance. Cette approche prudente, parce qu'intimidée devant... more
Drawing on two essential concepts of surrealism—the dream and the transformation of reality—this article seeks to establish a link between the aforementioned concepts and the epistemological discourses of posthumanism, through an analysis... more
RESUMO: Este artigo propõe considerações sobre a experiência a partir do texto Experiência e Pobreza, de Walter Benjamin, publicado em 1933, no qual o intelectual alemão desenvolve argumentos relacionados à experiência e à cultura... more
on this and the next earliest copy of the text, now in Doha. 5 As a nonspecialist, I was struck that so little attention seemed to have been hitherto paid to the colophon as a problematic physical object. Once this documentary anchor had... more
The following article aims to address concepts related to archives and reflect on the organization and systematization of information.One of the distinctiveness of the contemporary archive is its versatility, it stores analog and digital... more
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Religious practice in Serbia has taken place using both indoor and outdoor sacred sites ever since the adoption of Christianity in medieval times. However, previous archaeoacoustic research was focused on historic church acoustics,... more
Pretende-se, com esta pesquisa, discutir o conceito de modernidade, a partir das formulacoes filosoficas de Walter Benjamin em suas interlocucoes com o escritor frances Charles Baudelaire. O objetivo geral consiste em compreender como, a... more
Neste artigo, procura-se pensar como a fotografia influencia e modifica nossas maneiras de ser, compreendendo-a como um modo de produção de subjetividade. Para isso, faz-se uso da obra de Walter Benjamin e das reflexões de Susan Sontag... more
Cet article vise à décrire le fonctionnement des graffitis, ainsi que des histoires dessinées présents dans les multiples favélas de Rio de Janeiro. Ces différentes sortes de dessins sont étudiées en relation à leurs valeurs esthétique et... more
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