In the last few years, the topic of music in the Punic world in general, and in particular in Ibiza, has attracted some scholarly attention…
In search of the sounds and music of the Punic sanctuary of Es Culleram (Ibiza)
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Acoustical physics
Crossing boundaries: A tale of an acoustician’s first fieldwork among archaeologists in the Drakensberg mountains, South Africa
An acoustic engineer tells us about his experience of doing archaeoacoustics fieldwork in the Drakensberg Mountains in spring 2022
Artsoundscapes conference 2022: Exploring multidisciplinary approaches in the field of archaeoacoustics
On 20 and 21 October 2022 the ERC Artsoundscapes project organised the “Past sounds: new perspectives in the field of archaeoacoustics” conference …
Acoustics and rock art sites, an enigma to be resolved
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…
From neural action to the human experience. How can we measure mental states with electroencephalography?
By Raquel Aparicio, PhD Candidate; Samantha López, PhD Candidate; Dr Carles Escera, Senior Staff. There has always been a close relationship between art and...
Artsoundscapes in Catalonia: Exploring its rock art
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…
How we take acoustical measurements in the Artsoundscapes project, and how we got there
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...
Fieldwork in Catalonia… at a Time of Coronavirus
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...
Artsoundscapes in Siberia. An expedition about rock art, acoustics and human limits (Part II)
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...
Artsoundscapes in Siberia. An expedition about rock art, acoustics and human limits (Part I)
By Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Postdoctoral ResearcherOverwhelming, breathtaking landscapes. A very long way from home. Those are the words that come to mind...
10 months of Artsoundscapes – the who, the what and the when
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...