In January 2019, the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL) at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris presented the conference Sound and Music in the Prism of Sound Studies.1 A spectacular video announces the event: a heavy-metal band screams about the conference’s themes and cries out each speaker’s name, which is in turn spelt out on screen in gothic-bloody font. The band’s song lyrics note that the focus of sound studies is on topics such as soundscape, noise, silence, recording techniques and listening. Most critically, the band shouts: ‘These are issues that musicology has been dealing with for a long time. What is then the place of musicology in the wake of sound studies?’

2019 年 1 月，位于巴黎的 L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) 的艺术与语言研究中心 (CRAL) 举办了声音研究棱镜中的声音和音乐会议。1一段壮观的视频宣布了这一活动：一支重金属乐队为会议的主题大喊大叫，并大声喊出每位演讲者的名字，而这又以哥特血腥字体在屏幕上拼出。乐队的歌词指出，声音研究的重点是音景、噪音、静音、录音技巧和聆听等主题。最关键的是，乐队喊道：“这些是音乐学长期以来一直在处理的问题。那么，在声音研究之后，音乐学的位置是什么？