Symposium of Sound

An interdisciplinary conference on the study of sound. 3–4 September 2018, Durham University.

[Symposium of Sound @sound_symposium]

Yes: thank you to everyone (delegates, keynotes, performers!) for a wonderful two days! It was great to have you all in Durham. And thank you to @Northern_Bridge too! Photos + various bits coming soon here: https://t.co/3FrIzHoSF5 #sympsound 🎧

[Symposium of Sound @sound_symposium]

Photos from the conference are UP! Have a look here, and thanks again everyone for attending and helping to make @sound_symposium such a good couple of days! #symposund 🎧 https://t.co/EhaFM8CKKB

[Duncan Whitley @DuncanWhitley]

Latest featured recording from This is Highfield Road online sound archive... #binaural #archive #phonography #acousticcommunication "He comes from Coventry, he's better than Henry!" @getsomechalk @saru_brookes @sound_symposium @soundarchive

[Symposium of Sound @sound_symposium]

Reminder: feedback forms are due back by tomorrow! Calling all SoS-ers who have yet to make their voices heard. We'd love to hear what you thought of the conference! 📢 #sympsound 🎧

[Symposium of Sound @sound_symposium]

And the feedback forms have been sent out! 😀 Please do give as much information and detail as possible: all very useful in terms of planning future events and reporting back to our funders! #sympsound 🎧

[Symposium of Sound @sound_symposium]

SoS-ers! Feel free to send any photos you may have taken at the conference to our email address, or to us on Twitter (using #sympsound 🎧), as we plan to create an online photo gallery soon!

[Helen Abbott @HelenAbbott1]

Au revoir Durham! #hometime

[Jamie Fenton @jjwfenton]

Had a thrilling time at @sound_symposium. Heading home with foghorns and frenglish nursery rhymes ringing in the ears. Thanks to the organisers!

[Emily Rowe @emi_rowe]

GS moves on to a case study of the iconic voice of newsreel commentator E. V. H. Emmett - 'the voice of wartime commentary on the home front' #sympsound 🎧

[Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22]

The Man With The Dramatic Voice, or how E.V.H Emmett’s perceived authority in his voice made him the de facto wartime newsreel commentator. @GStephensonHist #SympSound

[Arts&Humanities HE @AHHEresearch]

S/o for #SympSound conf. ‘sound’: its creation,imitation & relationship with language; brill tweets & photos:wish I were there!

[Helen @HelenCliff]

Some Whitman now - but Tarantino’s Alabama Whitman in True Romance, who is plagued by the earworm ‘you’re so cool’ #sympsound

[Emily Rowe @emi_rowe]

'iPod therefore I am' -- EA moves from Walt Whitman to Quentin Tarantino, from Stravinsky to Sean Paul. What makes an earworm so 'sticky'? #sympsound 🎧

[Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22]

Ned Allen on earworms; sticky tunes linger on certain notes, and the tune doesn’t jump all over the place when it moves. #sympsound

[Helen @HelenCliff]

(Very happy with my own unintended verse there) #sympsound

[Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22]

“A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare/A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare/A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare/Punch in the presence of the passenjare!” #MarkTwain comes out of the woodworks with a catchy jingle (copied from a newspaper @chiaramex ). #sympsound

[Helen @HelenCliff]

Fantastic Simon Jarvis citation about rhyme here #sympsound

[Helen @HelenCliff]

Looking at a cut line from Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’ which editors Ricks and McCue gloss as an echo of AYLI’s ‘In the spring-time, the only pretty ring-time’. Eliot’s editor dismissed it as a little jingle #sympsound

[Helen @HelenCliff]

First question tests the thesis that earworms are not just sonic events but textual events #sympsound

[Emily Rowe @emi_rowe]

The @sound_symposium team demonstrating that we are much better at organising conferences than group photos #sympsound 🎧