A peer-reviewed platform for contemporary music and sound art
Seismograf Peer is a peer-reviewed online platform devoted to practical and theoretical issues in relation to contemporary music, sound art and sound studies. Our formats of publications are audio papers and research article.
Seismograf Peer covers a broad range of topics including sonic materialities, modes of listening, philosophy of sound and music, aesthetics, technology and audio visuality as well as performative, curatorial and archival matters related to the sonic arts.
Seismograf Peer encourages a wide spread of methodologies and theoretical discourses, ranging from the more established academic approaches such as sound studies, musicology, cultural studies and performance studies to artistic research, practice-based research, artist writing and media archaeology.
Seismograf Peer is hosted by Seismograf, a Danish magazine with a long and proud tradition of publishing essays, interviews and reviews by music journalists and critics as well as academics and composers, acting as an inspiring and important platform within the field. Seismograf Peer is a natural development of this tradition, acknowledging the demands of publication within universities, music academies and art schools.
Our platform appears in the Danish, the Norwegian, and the Finnish registers for scientific journals.
Seismograf is supported by the Danish Arts Council and Danish Composers’ Society.
Articles and audio papers published within the framework of Seismograf Peer will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by editors and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Submitted contributions have to be original and must not have been published or submitted elsewhere. We only publish contributions as part of thematic issues. Suggestions to themes, guest-editors and journal collaborations are very welcome.
12-15 minutes
150-200 words are required for all audio papers submitted.
A written bibliography has to be attached following Harvard standard (in-text).
Up to 100 words for all authors are required. Portraits are welcome, but optional (please include photo credit).
The audio paper is a 12-15 minute-long audio production presenting a research question or focus. The audio paper combines speech and narratives with “sonic argumentation” which can be composed through sound recordings, sound productions or any other sound practices, voice practices, the audible use of one’s body, everyday tools, gadgets, musical instruments, computer software or all kinds of objects and agents. All audio papers are being peer reviewed by reviewers within the given field. The reviewers are asked to assess after these guidelines: A clear and contextualized research question / focus of exploration; a clear and vivid argumentation and exploration of the research question / focus; meaningful and original use of sound as medium and content to support, present and anesthetize the argumentation; coherence between dramaturgical composition (tempo, density, narrative structure) and content; appropriate references in the accompanying text (abstract and bibliography) and/or in the audio production. Please visit seismograf.org/fokus/fluid-sounds for further thoughts on and examples of audio papers.
6000-8000 words
150-200 words are required for all audio papers submitted.
A written bibliography has to be attached following Harvard standard (in-text)
Up to 100 words for all authors are required. Portraits are welcome, but optional (please include photo credit).
Only contributions in English are accepted.
Embedded videos, photos, sound files and links to online platforms are welcome. Copyrights need to be cleared by the authors.
We are inviting written articles of a performative character. But, as with the audio paper, this does not mean that anything goes. Seismograf is an independent journal concerning aesthetics and art forms within the fields of sound, sound art and contemporary music. The readers of this journal are therefore not academics only, but cover a variety of people – dedicated listeners, artists, critics, curators etc. We are open towards written submissions that stretch the format beyond traditional academic publishing – but that are still being peer reviewed. The review guidelines concern: Strength, originality and clarity of the overall argument in the article; originality of and insight into the empirical material; strength and originality in presentation, argumentation and discussion; relevance of the literature references referred to.
Sanne Krogh Groth, Editor-in-chief of Seismograf Peer and Associate professor in Musicology, Lund University.
Rasmus Holmboe, Postdoc in Arts and Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen
Meri Kytö, Senior researcher and Adjunct professor in auditory culture studies, University of Eastern Finland.
Andreo Mielczarek, Editor-in-Chief of Seismograf
Morten Riis, Teaching Associate Professor in Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University.
Ulrik Schmidt, Associate professor in Performance Design, Roskilde University.
Holger Schulze, Professor in Musicology, University of Copenhagen.
Stefan Östersjö, Professor of Musical Performance, Luleå University of Technology.
Updated 1/10 2021
Please contact sanne@seismograf.org for further information.
Anette Vandsø,
AROS, Museum of Contemporary Art
Ansa Lønstrup
Aarhus University
Damien Harron
Leeds College of Music
Henrik Frisk
Royal College of Music, Stockholm
Jacob Kreutzfeldt
Struer Tracks
Jens Hjortkjær
Technical University of Denmark
Juilana Hodkinson,
The Academy of Music
Kersten Glandien
University of Brighton
Leigh Landy
De Montfort University
Mads Walther-Hansen
Aalborg University
Marianne Ping-Huang
Aarhus University
Michael Fjeldsøe
University of Copenhagen
Morten Breinbjerg
Aarhus University
Nicolas Collins
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ola Stockfelt
University of Gothenberg
Robert Willim
Lund University
Robin McGinley
Stockholm University
Simon Waters
Queen's University Belfast
Stefan Östersjö
Luleå University of Technology
Søren Møller Sørensen
University of Copenhagen
Tania Ørum
University of Copenhagen
Thor Magnusson
Univeristy of Sussex
Åsa Stjerna
University of Gothenberg
WHAT SOUNDS DO. New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound
Call for audio papers and research papers
Deadline 10 February 2023
For more information please contact Holger Schulze (schulze@hum.ku.dk)
GRIEF. Sonic expressions of loss, pain and sadness
Call for audio papers
Deadline 15 October 2022
For more information please contact Meri Kytö (meri.kyto@utu.fi) / Sanne Krogh Groth (sanne@seismograf.org)
(more information to come)
ECOLOGY, SOUND AND SPACE
Call opens Spring 2023 / Deadline Fall 2023
For more information please contact Stefan Östersjö (stefan.ostersjo@ltu.se)
GENERIC SOUND
Call opens Fall 2023 / Deadline Spring 2024
For more information please contact Ulrik Schmidt (ulriksc@ruc.dk) / Morten Riis (riis.morten@gmail.com)