Article ID: CBB000651381

Speaking of Sound: Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers (2004)

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Porcello, Thomas (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 34
Pages: 733--758


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Special Issue: Sound Studies
Language: English

This paper examines the role of speech-about-sound in sound-recording practice and the training of prospective sound engineers. The shift from apprenticeship to institutional learning in the mid-1980s is described as an effect of the digitization of the recording process, and provides a background to discussing how recording degree programs teach “professional audition” to students via processes of instruction and internships. Two conversations recorded during a studio session are then analyzed to uncover the range of linguistic resources that novices and professionals use to talk about sound and to illustrate how talk about work is fundamental to the process of work. The paper concludes by suggesting that the institutional instructional model reconfigures the profession's tacit knowledge by making explicit discussion of sound more ingrained in professional training.

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Authors & Contributors
Bijsterveld, Karin
Danielsen, Anne
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild
Marshall, Owen
En-Chieh Chao
Jackson Pope
Concepts
Sound
Engineering, audio
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Music
Technology and music
Sound recordings
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
Modern
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Havana, Cuba
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Tokyo (Japan)
Singapore
London (England)
United States
Institutions
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
European Sound Studies Association
Cornell University
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