More Than Background

Francisco Mazza

11. december 2023

Abstract

This audio paper explores the »acoustic territory« (Labelle, 2010) of Peckham Rye Lane through my sonic journey as a Peckham resident, practitioner, and researcher. My relationship with this place has expanded throughout my studies, moving beyond the simple notion of documentation or representation from an »outsider« angle. Instead, as a resident, I have apprehended my methodologies of listening and representing sound through my everyday life of living in Peckham and my involvement with different community groups.

Peer-reviewed article

Sound as Shield

The essay probes poetics and the politics of a life-affirming operation in which Ukrainians have been self-engaged to resist subjugation and assimilation under Russian colonialism.

Olya Zikrata

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

TO WHOM IT MAY SPEAK

This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.

Olya Zikrata

11. december 2023

Guide

Mit navn er Emil Palme – vil du se min playliste?

»Jeg oplever musik som noget magisk, som en kraft der kan kommunikere via energier, der ikke nødvendigvis kan forstås eller måles på. At skabe musik er for mig at have kontakt med den kraft.«

Kortkritik

Voldsomt charmerende Volvo

»Osgood og De Udeboende kommer virkelig vidt omkring både genrer og stemninger med en sprudlende livs- og spilleglæde.«

Guide

My name is Iku Sakan – would you like to see my playlist?

»Music is the healing force.«

Guide

My name is Mike Sheridan – would you like to see my playlist?

»To me, music is about everything else.«

Guide

My name is Lucky Lo – would you like to see my playlist?

»I play music to connect people and I sing melodies to encourage community. I believe in the transformative power of music and love.«

Kortkritik

Ukraine – og Gaza? – på kanten af scenen

»En fænomenalt velsyngende og -agerende Henriette Bonde-Hansen, lød præcis, som jeg havde håbet på.«

Kortkritik

Himmelske båndsløjfer fra ambientmusikkens superstjerne

»Det var ubegribeligt smukt at høre, hvordan vokalen vågede som en strålende guddom over den profane båndoptagede verden.«

Kortkritik

Nogle børn leger bedst alene

»’Again’ er en flot plade – fyldt med detaljer og stemninger, som kun findes i Lopatins OPN-verden. Potentialet er bare ikke helt forløst.«

Kortkritik

Et blodsultent corona-genfærd

»Som et sonisk Zoom-møde bliver nye instrumenter lukket ind og ud af lokalet og bidrager til den ulmende mosekonebryg.«

Kortkritik

Hypnotisk som lava

»Der er passager i ‘Leaning Tree’, som er fuldstændig hypnotisk inspirerede. Dem er der desværre ikke nok af.«

Kortkritik

Musikkens forrygende tale

»Hvis du som jeg ikke kan få nok af freejazzet musique concrète med granulær syntese, vil du ikke gå glip af ‘Orchestra of Speech’!«

What Sounds Do

New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound

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Peer-reviewed article

Sound as Shield

The essay probes poetics and the politics of a life-affirming operation in which Ukrainians have been self-engaged to resist subjugation and assimilation under Russian colonialism.

Olya Zikrata

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

TO WHOM IT MAY SPEAK

This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.

Olya Zikrata

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed article

Democratic Noise

Democratic conversation and collectively improvised music have such pronounced similarities that improvisations can be discussed in terms of their democratic potentiality.

Zenia Børsen,
Jakob Kjær Bødker

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

The Limitations of Sonic Offer

The sound of the slogans at the demonstrations touches the body, it is impossible to hide from. The vulnerability revealed through this touch creates immediate affective responses pointing at the limitations of sonic support and solidarization.

Vita Zelenska

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed article

The human body as a space defining element of sound art

This article researches the role of the Human body in the production of sound art in the exhibition space. It focuses on the spatial path between body and sound in the exhibition space of sound art.

Andromachi Vrakatseli

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

Cochlear implantation surgery

Operating rooms are typically noise filled environments, where polyrhythms and polyphonics of human and non-human sounds collide. In this paper the operating room soundscape is used for relational ethnographic exploration, framed in critical affect theory, and brings together insights from medical sociology and sound studies.

Andile Lindokuhle Sibiya,
Kevin Gordon

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

Fear of Weakness

In the audio-paper »Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man«, artist Morten Poulsen builds on his project »Boys Will Be…« (2022), in which he met with young cis-men to have conversations about vulnerability, intimacy and masculine norms

Morten Poulsen

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

The Second Sound of Integrity

Following Ruiz and Vourloumis, this audio paper performance sounds a formless formation, exploring integrity and wholeness among Black and Indigenous collectives that organize via radical forms of togetherness outside state-sponsored institution

Emery Petchauer ,
Ruth Nicole Brown

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

More Than Background

This audio paper explores the »acoustic territory« (Labelle, 2010) of Peckham Rye Lane through my sonic journey as a Peckham resident, practitioner, and researcher.

Francisco Mazza

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed audio paper

Karaoke Collage

I went on an artist residency in Tokyo in 2018/19 for three months and ended up spending most of my time in karaoke boxes. I don’t remember what my actual project was but in the birthplace of karaoke, amateur singing of pop songs was all I could think of.

Ragnhild May,
Kristoffer Raasted

11. december 2023

Anna Kûitse Thastum and her grandddaughter playing the Inuit frame drum qilaat. Photographer unknow

Peer-reviewed audio paper

The Heartbeat of the Drum

For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia.

Ania Mauruschat

11. december 2023

Peer-reviewed article

The Lyric Ear

The article analyses the genre of listening scores – texts written in a natural language that provide the readers with instructions to listen in a certain way or to a certain kind of sounds.

Vadim Keylin

11. december 2023

Voice as Infrastructure

This audio paper explores the phenomenon of voice-based technology in the smart-home. Through ethnographic interviews we study how older people use voice-based technologies and with what effects for their experiences of the affective environment in their homes.

Marie Ertner,
Stina Hasse Jørgensen,
Signe L. Yndigegn

11. december 2023

Dynamics of Power Dynamics

It is through knowledge of the art-form and skilful weaving of networks of symbols, that creatives can dictate the terms of storytelling and thus exert their power over the audience.

Carlos Manrique Clavijo

11. december 2023

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