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History, Culture, Multichannel Sound

A Symposium organized by the Sound Studies Group,
Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art & Culture
Carleton University, Ottawa
March 9 – 11, 2012

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Sterne, McGill University
Dr. Tim J. Anderson, Old Dominion University

This conference is about the history and significance of stereo sound reproduction in aural culture. Stereo is everywhere: the whole culture and industry of music and sound became organized around the principle of stereo during the mid twentieth century. But nothing about this – not the invention or acceptance or ubiquity of stereo – was inevitable. Nor did the aesthetic conventions, technological objects, and listening practices required to make sense of stereo emerge fully formed, out of the blue.