{"id":403,"date":"2026-10-19T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/suoni\/?page_id=403"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:56:46","slug":"call-for-papers-2027","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/suoni\/call-for-papers-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Beethoven 1827\u20132027. Soundscapes of a Cultural Icon\nBeethoven in Literature, Theatre, Comics and the Contemporary Sonic Imagination, between Italy and Transnational Contexts\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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On 26 March 2027, it will be 200 years since the death of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770\u20131827), an anniversary already at the centre of international initiatives brought together under the banner BTHVN2027. These celebrations invite us to reflect on the extraordinary persistence of Beethoven\u2019s life and work in the cultural imagination over the past two centuries. The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn has chosen to present 2027 not simply as an occasion for commemoration, but as an opportunity to explore how the music and personality of this celebrated composer continue to resonate in the present.<\/p>

Suoni. Journal on Soundscapes and Musico-Literary Studies seeks to investigate this enduring presence through the deliberately broad notion of the Beethoven soundscape. This encompasses not only the actual presence of Beethoven\u2019s compositions within an environment, but also the processes of reinterpretation \u2014 through listening practices, quotations, transcriptions, silences, images and narratives \u2014 by which Beethoven has become a cultural soundscape in his own right.<\/p>

Certain fragments of his music are instantly recognisable and capable of activating a shared acoustic memory: the opening of the Fifth Symphony, with its vast accumulation of symbolic meanings surrounding the theme of \u2018fate\u2019; the \u2018Ode to Joy\u2019 from the Ninth Symphony, which has gradually evolved from a symphonic experience into a public, ceremonial and political sound associated with Europe; the Sonata quasi una fantasia, Op. 27 No. 2, known in reception history as the Moonlight Sonata; and numerous other works reworked in literature, cinema, advertising and popular culture.<\/p>

Paradoxically, the Beethoven soundscape can be evoked even by the absence of sound. Consider the composer\u2019s deafness: one of the figures who did most to shape the musical experience of modernity is also the subject around whom Western culture has constructed one of its most powerful imaginaries of silence, interrupted listening and music turned inward.<\/p>

The artist\u2019s image is thus refracted through literary, theatrical, cinematic and graphic works, extending to the latest forms of digital culture and giving rise to real and virtual sonic worlds in which Beethoven\u2019s music, life story and mythology are revisited, reinterpreted and transformed.<\/p>

Particular consideration will be given to multi- and transmedial contributions exploring the relationship between Beethoven and soundscapes, as well as the processes through which his music is evoked, experienced anew or even withheld from listening. From this perspective, Suoni welcomes proposals on the following topics, among others:<\/p>