Sonic Exploration Research Articles

Sonic discourses on Muslim Malay modernity: The Arqam sound

Not only has Nasyid music been successful in addressing questions about what it is to be a modern Muslim youth in Southeast Asia, reconciling piety with a “funky but shariah” consumerist lifestyle; it also has been expressive of political aspirations for a utopian-style communal society. This essay focuses on how, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, the Malaysian missionary movement Al-Arqam used nasyid music to articulate ideas of Muslim Malay modernity and on how nasyid music became one of the main interfaces to spread the Arqam message beyond its model villages. The focus is on Arqam’s main ensembles, Nadamurni and the Zikr, and, with the 1994 ban on Arqam’s activities, the celebrated pop group Raihan. Raihan’s sonic explorations into Muslim Malay modernity have challenged orthodox Islamic ideas, but also the entertainment industry and the secular Malaysian state at large. Nasyid culture provides us with an understanding of the larger changes that have occurred within Southeast Asian Islam, away from a previous Islamic revival and toward a post-Islamist chic and new cultural performances that successfully blend entertainment and education.

The Cambridge companion to electronic music

Musicians are always quick to adopt and explore new technologies. The fast-paced changes wrought by electrification, from the microphone via the analogue synthesiser to the laptop computer, have led to a wide diversity of new musical styles and techniques. Electronic music has grown to a broad field of investigation, taking in historical movements such as musique concrete and elektronische musik, and contemporary trends such as electronic dance music and electronica. A fascinating array of composers and inventors have contributed to a diverse set of technologies, practices and music. This book brings together some novel threads through this scene, from the viewpoint of researchers at the forefront of the sonic explorations empowered by electronic technology. The chapters provide accessible and insightful overviews of core topic areas and uncover some hitherto less publicised corners of worldwide movements. Recent areas of intense activity such as audiovisuals, live electronic music, interactivity and network music are actively promoted.

“Gotta Moan Sometime”: A Sonic Exploration of Earwitnesses to Early Pentecostal Sound in North America

AbstractSound as a historical frame provides a new historiographic turn for Pentecostal studies and a complement to spatial and temporal studies of the Pentecostal past. This article explores how sound serves as a primary marker of early Pentecostal identity, as sound blended the sound of prayer, preaching, testifying, singing, music-making, and silence. Embedded in early Pentecostal sound are primal cries, speech, music, and ambient sound which, for early Pentecostals, functioned as a circular continuum that Pentecostal soundways traveled. Encompassing more than orality, early Pentecostal sound generated a way of knowing that challenged the orality-literacy binary, the hierarchy of senses that privileged sight, and the hierarchy of the races.

音波探査法による三池炭田の地質学的研究 (第2報)

音波探査法による三池炭田の地質学的研究 (第2報)

音波探査法による三池炭田の地質学的研究 (第1報)

A number of sonic boundaries which have considerable reflection coefficent were detected between the Tertiary and the basement, according to the sonic impedances which were obtained by the velocity measurement of ultra-sonic propagation on drilling cores in the Miike coal field, Kyushu.It is unquestionable that fair response of reflections is acquired on the surface of the base-rock, near the coal seams such as the Main Seam of the Tooka Formation, the Upper Seam of Nanaura Formation, , Uppermest Seam of Kattachi Formation and so on by the result of velocity loggings and the well shootings.Utilizing the abovementioned data, the equipment improved by the author was used in the sonic exploration. Thus, particular patterns are presented such as uncomformity, monoclinic structure, fold, lava-flow, agglomerate stock, gravel bed and fault of the Cenozoic Formation in the Ariake Sea.