This project will examine the role played by the media and their different mediacy (the single medium’s distinctiveness as a medium) in acoustic experience and knowledge. Within this remit it will be relevant to consider concepts such as mobility , both as physical mobility – the freedom new media technologies offer in terms of transporting sound material physically from place-to-place and also the mobility of digitalised sound between media. Another perspective worth consideration is emotional experience and the possibility that - due to the emotional bias of musical experience – such experience can be ‘medialized’ via the media’s musico-acoustic staging.
Iben Have (born 1970) is associate professor in the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University. She has an MA in Aesthetics and Culture and a Ph.D. in Musicology. Iben’s main research interest is music and sound as aesthetic and communicative devices in public media. For several years she has studied underscore music in relation to TV documentaries as well as addressing broader acoustemological questions about how reality, knowledge and emotions are realized, mediated and experienced through sound and music in audio-visual media. Recently, her studies have focused on the relation between the use and reception of underscore music in TV documentaries about contemporary senior Danish politicians.
Iben wrote Lyt til tv (Listening to Television, 2008) and among her other recent publications are “Aestheticizing Politics. Non-verbal Political Communication in Danish Television Documentaries” (2008). “Background Music and Background Feelings - background music in audio-visual media” (2008) and “Underlægningsmusik i dokumentariske politikerportrætter” (Underscore Music in Documentary Portraits of Politicians, 2009). She teaches Media and Culture Theory, Reception Studies and Aesthetic Analysis and participates in the steering committee of the Danish research groups Emotion, Knowledge and Culture and Sound as Art - Sound in History, Sound as Culture - Sound in Theory .
