[ecrea] CFP: Sounding Science Fiction

>Sounding Science Fiction
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>Call For Papers: New Edited Collection
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>Closing Date: July 1st 2008
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>Sounding Science Fiction will be an edited 
>collection that examines the way that sound, in 
>all its aesthetic and technological forms, is 
>deployed to audio-sense a science fiction 
>encounter, world, or universe. The collection 
>will be concerned with sound design and sound 
>signification, and with affect and feeling, so 
>that questions of form, style, narrative, 
>authorship, production, subjectivity, and 
>embodiment, will all work their way into the 
>book. Science fiction film and television, live 
>cinema, music video, computer games, 
>advertising, weblogs, digital art, mixed media 
>installations, radio, and music, are all 
>potential sites of investigation and analysis.
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>The questions that energise this call for papers centre on:
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>How does one sound science fiction?
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>How do the sounds of science fiction affect/move/interpolate audiences?
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>What semiotic, ideological, spatial, 
>phenomenological, psychoanalytical relations are 
>in play when one sounds science fiction?
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>What is the relationship between science fiction 
>sound and image, or sound and space, or sound and exhibition context?
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>When one hears (but does not see) science 
>fiction, what images are brought to the mind, 
>what feelings of the 'future' are created?
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>Essays could take any number of approaches to the topic, but could include:
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>Otherworldly sounds
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>Hearing the uncanny
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>Sound as prophecy and enlightenment
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>Alien sounds and otherness (sex, race, gender, class)
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>Sound design (and full future world immersion)
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>Sound effects/affect
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>Composition/composers
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>Sounding future weapons/warfare/cities/movement/travel/invasions/space
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>Sounding Global (catastrophe)
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>The interiority of science fiction sound (existential sound)
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>Sound as trauma, loss, dystopia
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>Sounding science fiction paranoia
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>The carnality of science fiction sound
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>Posthuman sound
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>Sounding cyborg
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>Contrapuntal music and the science fiction image/artefact
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>Sounding scientific/rationalist (in dialogue, speech, voice-over)
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>Live science fiction sound
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>The sound image
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>The 'moment' of sound (close textual analysis of a key sequence)
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>Authoring science fiction sound: key auteurs of sound design
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>Cultish science fiction sound
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>Sounding Science Fiction's multi-disciplinary 
>and multi-site focus will build on the work done 
>in single case studies such as William 
>Whittington's Sound Design and Science Fiction 
>(2007), and on edited collections such as Philip 
>Hayward's Off The Planet: Music, Sound And 
>Science Fiction Cinema (2004), which take 
>film/cinema as their central/sole text.
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>Proposals of approximately 500 words can be sent 
>electronically, preferably as a word attachment, to:
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>Sean Redmond: (sean.redmond /at/ vuw.ac.nz) <mailto:(sean.redmond /at/ vuw.ac.nz)>
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>Senior Lecturer in Film Studies,
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>Victoria University of Wellington,
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>New Zealand
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>Closing Date: July 1st 2008
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