Sonology - Definition and Overview

Studio BEA 5 at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands. (photo Kees Tazelaar)

Sonology is the study of sound. There are many approaches, but generally it can be divided into the artistic and the scientific approaches. It is related to fields such as electronic music, electronics, informatics, composition and psychology.

The Royal Conservatory of The Hague has an institute of sonology.

External links

• Center of Computational Sonology (http://www.dei.unipd.it/ricerca/csc/)
• RMIT Interactive Information Institute - Sonology (http://www.iii.rmit.edu.au/sonology/)
• Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (http://www.koncon.nl/public_site/220/SOmain.html)
• Church of Sonology (http://www.sonology.net/)