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Postal AddressThe Sound Environment Centre at Lund UniversityDepartment of Arts and Cultural SciencesBox 192221 00 LundSwedenInternal mailing code at Lund University: 30 Visiting AddressDepartment of Arts and Cultural Sciences, LUXHouse C, level 3: Department of Arts and Cultural SciencesHelgonavägen 3Lund, Sweden DirectorPhilip Doddsdirector [at] lmc [dot] lu [dot] se (director[at]lmc[dot]lu[do
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/contact - 2025-09-29
Open call The grant aims to enable employees at Lund University to work on a project application for research in sound and sound environments. Call for applications for funding to write research applications in the field of sound and sound environments The announced amount of incentive funding for writing project applications for research in the field of sound and sound environments is SEK 50,000
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research-and-funding/incentive-funding-research-applications - 2025-09-29
For several years Jonna Hägg has been exploring how the soundscape of the world in general is changing. Human sounds have become so pervasive on earth that we have created a third category just for them: anthropophony. In many landscapes, anthropophony dominates and drowns out the sounds of nature. Everything we build, our machines, engines and houses create new sounds that are integrated into the
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/garden - 2025-09-29
VISUALISATION OF SOUND IN SOCIETY, RESEARCH, ART & MUSIC 2019-05-24 Sound Environment Centre's "See the Sound - visualisation of sound in society, research, art & music" seminar Visual representations of sound have become both important and common with the digitization of sound and signal processing and is today a tool for managing and studying the world of sound. Visual representations of sound a
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2019/see-sound - 2025-09-29
THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE’S PUBLICATION SERIES The Sound Environment Centre’s publications are published in a publication series. All our publications can be downloaded at OBLU (Open Books at Lund University). Link to OBLU The texts in the report series are produced in connection with interdisciplinary seminars organised by the centre on matters concerning sound and sound environments in our so
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/media/publications - 2025-09-29
FREE ONLINE SYMPOSIUM: MAY 20 - MAY 21, 2021 The symposium brings together researchers, cultural workers, and artists to address topics around the auditive exploration of art, the use of sound, etc. in the context of visual primacy. It will include presentations of existing, ongoing and planned projects, and shall particularly give room to the discussion of related challenges and possibilities. Ex
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Marie Koldkjær Højlund Webinar 22 september 13:15-15:00 "Working with sound design, music composition and sound art in various public spaces and across art forms call for an ecological and enactive methodology entailing investigations of actors and their interrelations with their respective environments as attuning and explorative agents. Based on my Ph.D.
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/attuning-approach-sound-art-and-design-public-spaces - 2025-09-29
WHAT DOES THE SOUND ENVIRONMENT CENTRE DO? The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University is an interdisciplinary centre focused on initiating, coordinating and stimulating interdisciplinary research on sound and sound environments and how people and society are impacted by these. The Sound Environment Centre at Lund University was established in March 2005. The centre is the first of its kind, b
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/organisation - 2025-09-29
Talk to the machine: listening to smart spaces In Light of Flowing Circumstances Politics of Sound & Ethics of Listening in Urban Dance Music and the Public Sphere Negotiating Noise - Malaysia The physiological and psychological impact of sound and noise Underwater sounds - sonic perspectives on oceanic ecologies Introduction to acoustic concepts relevant to sound studies The Sound Bench: Taking S
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020 - 2025-09-29
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Marcel Cobussen Webinar 29 september 14:15-16:00 "I will speak of two projects I'm working on: The first one is an e-pub on everyday sounds and sonic materialism, comprising of a collection of brief texts, soundfiles, and photos, and the second one consists of reports on the potential sonic improvement of seven public spaces in the city center of Rotterdam.
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/listening-everyday-sounds - 2025-09-29
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Christine Guillebaud Webinar 10 november 13:15-15:00 "I am an anthropologist of sound milieus’. By milieu, I mean a composite world made up of sounds produced, perceived, and listened to either intentionally or coincidentally. This simple definition, centred on the idea of experienced ‘sound worlds’, is inscribed in a wider anthropological undertaking. Vehi
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/sonic-affordances-perception-density-and-calm-indian-cities - 2025-09-29
PART OF THE SOUND STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Cathy Lane Webinar 3 November 13:15-15:00 "This presentation is part of a wider research project into the ways in which contemporary sound artists are re-cycling existing material – real and imaginary - in this case song, in order to subvert the listeners’ habitual responses and highlight hitherto ignored, unnoticed or unknown elements attached to that song
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2021/subversion-sound-arts-your-dna-sound-arts-and-song - 2025-09-29
The Sound Bench is a custom-made bench for sound art in the public space, created by Jonas Wahlström after an idea by the sound art company Audiorama. The Sound Bench is currently located in the northeast corner of the UB park in Lund (outside the auditorium of the Centre for Languages and Literature). The Sound Bench plays specially commissioned sound works on various themes. At the bottom of thi
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench - 2025-09-29
15-16TH JANUARY 2020 AT UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM IN MALAYSIA The subject of unwanted, unruly, or otherwise transgressive sound has proved to be fertile but problematic territory across a wide range of academic disciplines, professional practices, and creative endeavours. At one end of the scale, acousticians and sound designers aim to eliminate and control unnecessary environmental sound, working
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/activities/activities-2020/negotiating-noise-malaysia - 2025-09-29
RESEARCH COVERAGE Sound environment centre have three focus areas were reports about current involvement from members of the board have been presented. Noise exposure and health is one of these areas were PhD Kristoffer Mattisson, member of the board, have had the responsibility to report. Kristoffer work at Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) part time as researcher (at Lund University)
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research/noise-exposure-and-health - 2025-09-29
The butterfly develops through a process called metamorphosis. The term is also used to describe general transformation or change. A new phase where something is left behind. Jacob Kirkegaard - Metamorphosis (2021) Metamorphosis is a soundtrack which uses sound recordings of butterfly wings combined with names of extinct butterfly species, whispered in Latin. The sound recordings of butterfly win
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/metamorphosis - 2025-09-29
Within the groups involved in the Sound Environmental Center, acoustic research is going on at the acoustics groups at LTH (in Lund) and at DTU (the Technical University of Denmark, in Lyngby, Demark). The group in at LTH is conducting research in, e.g., building acoustics, and have during the last years reported several interesting projects in this area. I will however concentrate this report on
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research/acoustics-sound-environment-centre - 2025-09-29
WEBCAST: 25 NOVEMBER, KLOCKAN 10:00 - 11:00 (CET) The event will be in English What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with it? These questions are answered in very different ways in the book Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines that came out in September 2021. The book is a result of transdisciplinary conversations at two workshops – one at Lund University a
TO TEST STRESS-REDUCING SOUND ENVIRONMENTS WITH ELEMENTS OF NATURE IN WORK PLACES The project focuses on how to experimentally investigate stress recovery, using typical sounds from nature (such as wind, bird song and sounds from a brook), in a natural context, in an indoor environment. If the study shows that natural elements can accelerate the recovery from high levels of stress, such environmen
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/research/project-soundscape - 2025-09-29
EXPLORING SOUND SOLASTALGIA The piece “Wave - exploring sound solastalgia” for the Sound Bench seeks to give sense and explore basic affects related to our sonically changing life worlds Nature sounds are often seen as relaxing, and understood as reconnecting our minds and bodies with something primeval. Such sounds are used for stress recovery in the fields of medicine and psychology, as well as
https://www.lmc.lu.se/en/sound-bench/wave - 2025-09-29
