[ecrea] Call for Papers "Sounds, Music & Soundscapes“

Call for Papers: „Sounds, Music & Soundscapes“

Deadline for Articles: 17. March 2014



We are happy to accept articles for the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary 
Yearbook of Immersive Media (Jahrbuch immersiver Medien). The 2014 issue 
is entitled „Sounds, Music & Soundscapes“.

Research on forms of media experience tend to concentrate on visuals. 
Owing to this, mainly pictorial forms such as panoramas, stereoscopic 3D 
media, dome projections or the HMD  are treated as scenarios of 
immersion. This focus on visual immersion is even apparent when the 
discourse focusses on multimodal forms of media such as the film or the 
video game. Yet it is not just the visual parameters that allow an 
immersive experience. Sergei Eisenstein, for instance, stressed that a 
fusion of film and audience can only succeed through sound, and he did 
this some years before his emphatic article about stereoscopic Raumfilm. 
In this regard, he wrote of an acoustic embrace of the space of the 
cinema by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, to immerse the audience 
completely into the sonic world of a Wagnerian orchestra. This relevance 
of acoustics for the creation of immersive and atmospheric phenomena can 
be extended in a variety of media types and space types, be it the 
emotional mood of an empty space, be it the importance of the soundscape 
for the experience of a film or the significance of music for the 
preservation of the flow-experience in a video game.



The yearbook of immersive media is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary 
publication aimed at an international academic readership. The Yearbook 
invites to send articles dealing with themes like music, sound studies, 
sound effects, sound design, film, virtual reality, game studies etc. 
applied to the concept of acoustic immersion and atmospheres.

Submitted articles must be original contributions that engage with 
recent studies dealing with immersive theory and practice, the 
production and reception of atmospheres, or the concept of presence. 
Contributions should be 5000 to 8000 words in length. Please send an 
abstract, a brief biographical information and contact details and your 
article to Dr. Patrick Rupert-Kruse via: (immersive-medien /at/ fh-kiel.de). 
The deadline for articles is the 17. March 2014. A style sheet can be 
obtained through our website at www.immersive-medien.de.



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