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            Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.

            Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.

            The CHR is delighted to announce that Sound Working Group Convenors, Aidan Erasmus, Valmont Layne and Lee Walters have received a joint Creative Arts Output Award for their outstanding contributions to Research and Innovation at the University of the Western Cape.

            This award was in recognition of Oscillations: Sonic Inquiries and Practices, which culminated in an exhibition by Oscillations Artists in Residence at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, between 27 April – 19 May.

            For more information about Oscillations and the Sound Working Group:
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            Oscillations is a project of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town) and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst (Berlin).

            Sponsored by the TURN2 fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

            Supported by the DAAD arts & media programme, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf and National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).

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