[ecrea] Fearful Sounds: Cross-Platforms Studies of Sonic Audio and Horror

You may be interested in the newly live special issue of /Revenant: 
Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural/.

This special issue of /Revenant/ is dedicated to reflection on the 
relationships between sound and fear, aurality and horror, the audio 
experience and the supernatural. The ‘cross-platform’ element of this 
issue describes the variety of linked and overlapping channels and 
interfaces through which performances of sound arrive to us now: on the 
radio, streaming on the internet, or in the cinema.

Each of the essays and creative pieces in this issue situates the 
phenomenon of performed sound within a medial landscape now defined by 
the crossing of boundaries, so that ‘cross-platform’ refers not just to 
boundaries between media platforms, but also to associated boundaries 
between digital and analogue, local, national and global.

That liminal space between categories or territories, the borderlands of 
culture, is where much of horror takes place, because its essential 
feature is interfacing with the unknown. Indeed many of the best scary 
stories, and many of the pieces here, engage the special terror that 
hinges on the unknown, as evoked by sound: sounds whose origins we 
cannot place; the creak on the stairs when the house should be empty; 
the voice in the dark.

/Revenant/is a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal dedicated to 
academic and creative explorations of the supernatural, the uncanny and 
the weird.

Get full open access at http://www.revenantjournal.com/ .


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