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Last January, the youngest members of the Artsoundscapes project travelled to southern Spain to examine first-hand the possibilities of archaeoacoustics in caves containing Palaeolithic rock art…
Last July, members of the Artsoundscapes psychoacoustics, neuropsychology and ethnomusicology research groups worked together on making a series of high-quality musical recordings…
There are always a many uncertainties when analysing human interaction with sacred places, since a wide variety of physical, social and cultural factors needs to be considered at the same time. Such uncertainties are even more difficult to elucidate when…
By Raquel Aparicio, PhD Candidate; Samantha López, PhD Candidate; Dr Carles Escera, Senior Staff. There has always been a close relationship between art and humans. In Europe there are some claims...
Por Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Principal Investigator Artsounscapes y Neemias Santos da Rosa, Junior Postdoctoral Researcher. Del 5 al 13 de octubre el Proyecto Artsoundscapes volvió a salir de trabajo...
By Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Principal Investigator Artsounscapes and Neemias Santos da Rosa, Junior Postdoctoral Researcher. The Artsoundscapes Project was out in the field again from 5 to 13...
By Samantha López, PhD Candidate; Raquel Aparicio, PhD Candidate; Dr José Valenzuela, Artsoundscapes Collaborator; Dr Carles Escera, Senior Staff. Under the auspices of the Artsoundscapes project,...
By Dr Marina Peterson and Dr David Novak Questions and introduction by Ana-María Alarcón-Jiménez, Junior Postdoctoral Researcher This blog post presents a critical conversation on “soundscape”...
By Laura Fernández Macías, Junior Researcher
If this 2020 will be remembered for anything, it will be for this terrible pandemic of Covid-19, which has the whole world on tenterhooks…
By Neemias Santos da Rosa, Postdoctoral Researcher. How does acoustics fit into the process of rock art production? Before answering this question, we need to clarify a fundamental matter: what is...
By Adriano Farina, Angelo Farina and Enrico Armelloni.Brief history of acoustical measurements. The field of acoustics was first formalized at the end of the nineteenth century by American physicist...
By Tommaso Mattioli, Senior Researcher I always take notes on everything during rock art surveys and today, as I was reading my own observations, questions and thoughts recorded during the last...
By José Valenzuela, Doctoral Researcher. How can we understand the psychological response to sound in a prehistoric rock art landscape? The Artsoundscapes project seeks to analyse soundscapes to...
By Mathieu Picas, Research Assistant On the 22 and 23 of November 2019, a special two-day seminar on Music Archaeology in Latin America was held at the Senate House of the University of London. This...
By Ana María Alarcón Jiménez, Postdoctoral Researcher During these past months, there have been a number of discussions in professional groups like the Society for Ethnomusicology and the American...
By Doerte Weig, Senior Researcher. What might a San person or group have heard moving around the Daureb inselberg in Namibia around 4000 BP? Which kinds of sounds might they have made, gathering and...
By Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Postdoctoral Researcher. As our days in Siberia were full and we generally worked every day from morning to evening, we did not have much time for leisure. Our free time...
By Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Postdoctoral ResearcherOverwhelming, breathtaking landscapes. A very long way from home. Those are the words that come to mind whenever I think about the Artsoundscapes...
By Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Principal Investigator The ERC Artsoundscapes project started ten months ago, what it seems now like a long time. These past few months have been full of activities...