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 and sound art.
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.
Our platform appears in the Danish, the Norwegian, and the Finnish registers for scientific journals.
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.
Seismograf is supported by the Danish Arts Council, Danish Composers’ Society and Independent Research Fund Denmark.
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.
To uncover the various layers of knowledge production within the process of generating an academic article, Seismograf Peer intends to make the peer review process transparent, aiming for a dialogue instead of a one-way communication. In practice this means additional publications in direct relation to the final article that display, reflect and communicate the processes of knowledge production (e.g. the reviews), giving the published articles additional dynamic perspectives. All involved in this process are acquainted with the selected material before the final publication.
- Standard: Articles and bibliographies have to follow the Harvard style (in-text) of referencing.
- Length: The editors recommend 4-8,000 words or 12-15 minutes for audio papers, but shorter and longer contributions will also be taken into account.
- Abstract: Abstracts of 100-150 words are required for all articles and audio papers submitted.
- Language: Only contributions in English are accepted.
- Multimedia: Embedded videos, photos, sound files and links to online platforms are welcome. Copyrights need to be cleared by the authors.
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