The relatively young discipline of Sound Studies has been rapidly developing since the turn of the millennium. The SSC supports research that bridges the varied emerging and established discourses from worlds of sound art, the humanities, the social sciences, and the exact sciences. In both the physical spaces of the SSC as well as in the relationships and connections that it generates in the wider world, we encourage a robust research community in which these varied strands of sound-oriented discourse interact with, reinforce, and provoke one another.

At the SSC, professors, postdocs, PhD candidates, and MA and BA students from the disciplines of sound art, musicology, composition, anthropology, area studies, art history, and technology studies work together with invited artist-researchers from outside the academic world on projects that contribute to the ongoing dialogue within these developing sound studies discourses.

Alongside its research activities, the SSC also hosts the Journal of Sonic Studies, which since 2011 provides a platform for sound scholars and artists to present their ideas on sound, sound studies, and sound art.