The SSI lecture series occurs once or twice a month on Wednesdays between 5:30pm and 6:30pm, and include diverse topics related to sound research, scholarship, and artistic explorations with sound
In the 2022-2023 year, we are returning to in-person events! Join us at the Sound Studies Institute, Room 3-47 in the Old Arts & Convocation Hall building. Click here for directions.
For those who cannot attend in-person, we are continuing to livestream our events online. Please visit the livestream page for more information!
We may add special events throughout the year. Please check back often!
Upcoming Lecture Series: Winter Term 2023
Stephan Moore
Wed, March 8, 2023, 5:30pm Artist talk and gallery opening with Dr. Stephan Moore, sound artist. Stephan Moore is a sound artist, designer, composer, improviser, programmer, engineer, teacher, and curator based…
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the sound of my dreams
Wed, January 18, 2023, 5:30pm the sounds of my dreams with Catherine Bevan, M.Mus While VR is poised to be an exciting medium for artistic expression, it’s not without its share…
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The Composer as Process
Wed, February 8, 2023, 5:30pm The Composer as Process, or, for a Music History Without Protagonists with Dr. Fabio Morabito The nineteenth-century composer has a persistent image problem: inspired, unworldly, male,…
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From the Voices of Children
Wed, Sep 14, 2022 From the Voices of Children with Dr. Ardelle Ries and the FVC research team team Have pandemic responses impacted the desire for the next generation to freely…
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Untamed Melodies: Songwriting, Conservation, and the Music of Alberta Birds
Wed, Sept 28, 7:00 pm Untamed Melodies: Songwriting, Conservation, and the Music of Alberta Birds with Mallory Chipman, MacEwan University Join musician and researcher, Mallory Chipman (MMus, she/they), as she shares…
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Special event: Listening to the Fur Trade
Thur, Sep 29, 2022, 5:30pm Special event: Listening to the Fur Trade with Dr. Daniel Laxer The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile…
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Ouroboros: tuning relations and invented systems of play
Wed, Oct 12, 2022, 7:00pm Ouroboros: tuning relations and invented systems of play with Imaginary Instruments Imaginary Instruments co-compose works existing between composition and improvisation that navigate sound using disparate instruments…
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SoundsOnline.ca: A collaborative web portal for sound studies online
Wed, Oct 26, 2022 7:00pm SoundsOnline.ca: A collaborative web portal for sound studies online with Dr. Stephanie Archer The goal of the SoundsOnline project is to create a web portal for…
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Wazaat? How speech changes as we age
Wed, Nov 16, 2022 7:00pm Wazaat? How speech changes as we age with Dr. Ben Tucker Does our ability to produce and understand spontaneous reduced speech change as speakers age, and…
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