Situated Listening
Attending to the Unheard

Edited by Morten Søndergaard,Stephanie Loveless,Freya Zinovieff,Tullis Rennie

ISBN13: 9781032391328

Imprint: Focal Press

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 28/05/2025

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Grounded in a conviction that how we listen matters deeply in the context of ongoing social, political, and ecological crises, Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice. Drawing the parameters of sound studies broadly, this 15-chapter book is written entirely collaboratively, and from a multidisciplinary perspective, and seeks to investigate the relationships between the listening body and the politics of place, space, and culture. Each section includes scores for situated listening, which take the form of diagrams, instructions, exercises, images, and meditations. The scores offer alternate modes of sharing the central ideas of the associated chapters, inviting the reader to shift from theory into practice. This book contributes to decolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist scholarship in the field of sound studies, by centering listening as a situated and relational practice. Situated Listening brings together a roster of accomplished, international contributors, making it essential supplementary reading for advanced undergraduates and researchers in sound studies. It will also be of interest to sound artists, as well as faculty and students in the fields of Music, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, and Urban Design.
Part 1: Methodologies of Listening 1. Listening to Noise: Lines of Affinity and Feminist Sono-Techno-Political artivisms from the South 2. Listening to our Listening: Deep Listening in Critical Sites 3. Unlistening 4. Listening With, or the Impossibility of Inhabiting Another’s Ears 5. The weak power of listening: a conversation between Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri and Rolando Vázquez Part 2: Apparatuses of Listening 6. Audible Ghosts 7. Technologies, Precariousness and Coloniality 8. Addressing Deep Code Problems: Listening to Opera Through the World’s Liveness 9. Endarkened Listening 10. Amplified States: Listening as Coming to Know Part 3: Cultures of Situated Listening 11. The Sound of Hate: White Nationalist Epistemology and Neo Nazi Nation Building on Telegram 12. Mythic Sonic Beings: A Multitrack Conversation 13. The Sonic Sensorium. Listening with the un(der)heard 14. Transperceptive Listening: Sonic Meditations for a Pluriverse 15. Collaborative composition: An exchange of sounding
  • Music
  • Audio processing
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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