Author Archives: f.behrendt

LSE Cities and the MacArthur Foundation invited me to their Foresight Seminar ‘Urban Governance Futures: Scenarios for London’ on 16 June 2014. I’m particularly interested in their focus on the role of big data and real-time information in relation to … Continue reading →

I’ll be giving the opening keynote at the ‘Locative media and sound art’ symposium that is happening as part of Sounding City, a leading project for international sound art in Kortrijk, 10th May 2014.

It’s finally out: Behrendt, F (2014) Creative Sonification of Mobility and Sonic Interaction with Urban Space: An Ethnographic Case Study of a GPS Sound Walk. In: Gopinath and Stanyek (eds) Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music, Volume 2, Oxford University Press: … Continue reading →

3-6 April 2014 I’ll be in Berlin where I’m invited to the ‘academy’ of “City, Religion, Capitalism. Turning Points for Civilization”, a joint project of Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Alfred Herrhausen Society, in cooperation with the LSE … Continue reading →

Based on the conference presentation ‘The Sound of Cycling’ that I gave in Vienna this summer, I was invited to write a short piece for ‘The Sound of Cycling: Urban Cycling Cultures’, the Velo City Vienna 2013 Conference Magazine that … Continue reading →

My chapter ‘Rrrring…rrrring…rrring…telephone! A Cultural History of the Ringtone’ for the German book A Century in Sound, edited by Paul and Schock is finally out this December. It comes with sound examples on DVD.

Presenting a paper on ‘Making Cycling Sound(s)’ at the European Sound Studies Conference (ESSA), Berlin, 4-6 October 2013.

The EPINET project is running a workshop titled ‘Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes ‘ in Brussels on the 5th November and I’ve been invited to talk about the smart e-bike project. This workshop will bring together designers … Continue reading →

I’ve been invited talk at the RE.WORK Cities Summit – Combining entrepreneurship, technology & science to re-work the future. London, 13 December 2013. Interesting line-up of speakers – looking forward to it.

I’m invited to Georgina Born’s ‘Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies’ conference at Oxford University and will be responding to talks on ‘Consumption’ by Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Michael Bull, (University of Sussex), Blake Durham (University of Oxford), Nick … Continue reading →