Sound Studies Group

This is the Sound Studies Group at the SUSTech School of Design, Shenzhen. It is led by Dr. Qiushi Xu and Dr. Marcel Zaes Sagesser. Our research focuses on sound in relationship with technology, the environment, and human listening. It includes sound technology, sound studies, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), sound design, philosophy of science and technology, spatial audio, interactive audio, and creative media. The output of this team is published in prestigious international journals, at domestic and international conferences, and at international exhibitions and concert halls.

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Publications by Qiushi XU
Publications by Marcel Zaes Sagesser

Publications by Qiushi XU

Academic Journals in Chinese

Qiushi XU, 2021. The Unbearable “Lightness” of Life – Noise, Power Structure, and the Studiolization of Nature [J]. DUSHU，pp.14-22.
Qiushi XU, 2020. Performing “Noise” - The Construction and Deconstruction of Noise in the Production of Piano Sound [J]. Tsinghua Sociological Review, Vol. 14, pp. 147-170.
Qiushi XU, Trevor Pinch, Bing LIU, 2020. STS Marching in Sound Studies: “A Revolutionary Moment” [J]. Science and Society, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 81-96.
Qiushi, XU. and Bing, LIU, 2018. Sound Studies: A Brand-New Area in STS [J]. Journal of Dialectics of Nature, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 88-97.
Qiushi XU, 2017. Calling for the Metaphysics of Human Civilization – Reading the Book Daoxiangyuan Essays [J]. Green Leaf, No.5, pp. 62-65.
Qiushi, XU. and Bing, LIU, 2016. The Historiography Significance of The Death of Nature to Scientific Revolution –With Discussing the Hyperprofessionalism in History of Science [J]. Science and Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 44-53.
Qiushi, XU, 2016. Theory, Perspective and the New Study of Science Communication [J]. Science Education and Museums, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 83-84.

Articles in English

Qiushi XU, 2022.2.13. An Incredible Thinker, An Admirable Mentor, and A Much-Valued Friend: A Tribute to Trevor Pinch. Backchannels, 4S.
Qiushi XU, 2019.12. A Woman’s Masterpiece of Women: Analyzing Cindy Sherman’ Untitled Film Still # 21. Arts Autour Du Monde by Artistes autour du monde – Centre detudes interdisciplinaries en art (AAM-CEIA).
Qiushi XU, 2019.6.24. SO! Amplifies: The Electric Golem (Trevor Pinch and James Spitznagel). Sounding Out! (Sound Studies Online Publication).

Essays in Chinese

Qiushi XU. Does the Piano Sound You Hear Comes from a Piano? The Thinker, No.3, 2022.
Qiushi XU. The Sociology of Insects and Health. Meiwen, No.2, 2020.
Qiushi XU. Material, Nature, and the Environment of Human Living. Meiwen, No.2, 2020.
Qiushi XU. But There is No His Home Outside the Window. Meiwen, No.2, 2020.
Qiushi XU. The New Trend of Digital Art. China Culture Daily, May 25, 2019.
Qiushi XU. Holographic Practice of Ecological Agriculture. Liaoning Daily, March 26, 2017.
Qiushi XU. Tasting the Sweets and Bitters of Life. Chinese Science Daily, May 20, 2016.

Publications by Marcel Zaes Sagesser

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

2023 Brian House, Annie Aries, Marcel Zaes Sagesser. “Metric Displacement: The Sound of Network Friction,” MAST The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory, Special Issue: The Art of Media Research, edited by Maryam Muliaee, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2023

Non-Refereed Chapters in Edited Volumes (Book Chapters)

2022 Sagesser, Marcel Zaes. “A Digital Archive of Participatory Location Rhythm Performances: Listening as a Way of Attending to the Pandemic.” In Sounds of the Pandemic: Accounts, Experiences, Perspectives in Times of COVID-19, edited by Maurizio Agamennone, Daniele Palma, and Giulia Sarno. Waltham, MA: Focal Press, 2022.
2010 Brockhaus, Immanuel, Michael Harenberg, and Marcel Sagesser. “Schnittmuster in der Populären Musik.” In Brockhaus, Immanuel; Harenberg, Michael; Sagesser, Marcel (2010). Schnittmuster in der Populären Musik In: Brockhaus, Immanuel; Weber, Bernhard (eds.) Inside The Cut. Digitale Schnitttechniken und Populäre Musik. Entwicklung – Wahrnehmung – Ästhetik (pp. 31-80). Bielefeld: transcript, edited by Immanuel Brockhaus and Bernhard Weber, 31–80. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010. (German language)

Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed and indexed)

2023 Marcel Zaes Sagesser. 2023. Rhythms, Textures, Identities: Folding as a Technique in Kyoka’s Signature Sound. In IIPC International Insitute for Popular Culture (ISSN 1797-318X (online); ISBN 978-951-29-9427-4 (PDF)), proceedings from the IASPM International Association for the Study of Popular Music annual meeting in Daegu, South Korea, in July 2022. https://iipc.utu.fi/iaspm2022/
2023 Marcel Zaes Sagesser. 2023. Mediating Place as Staging Time in “Setting”: Sonic Interactive Mobile Technology as an Art Performance. In DIS Companion ’23: ACM Designing Interactive Systems, July 10–14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3596806/
2023 Marcel Zaes Sagesser, and Binghuang Xu. “Listening Through Technology: an Interactive Sound Walk for a Suburb in Shenzhen,” 12th International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, an affiliated Conference of HCI International 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35696-4_17/
2023 Enza Migliore, Hanyu Qu, and Marcel Zaes Sagesser. 2023. A Grain of: A Multimodal Representation of the City’s Ecology Through Material and Sound. In TEI ’23: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23), February 26- March 1, 2023, Warsaw, Poland. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3576178/
2021 Sagesser, Marcel Zaes. “#otherbeats: A Hypermediated Playback System in Web Audio.” In ICMC International Computer Music Conference 2021 Proceedings, 185–91, 2021. https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/rn3013782?locale=en#page=209/
2021 Zaes, Marcel. “#otherbeats: Performing a Participatory Archive of Social Rhythm.” In New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME 2021. Shanghai, China: NIME 2021.

Non-Refereed Magazine Essays

2020 Zaes, Marcel. “The Material Politics of Techno Punk.” Edited by Hannes Liechti. Sampling Politics Today, Norient Sound Series, 1 (January 31, 2020). ISSN: 2673-639X. DOI: 10.56513/nftg6449-19.

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