When Generic Sounds Become Data
A questioning of the very idea of ‘generic sound’ in the face of the ever growing datafication of the mundane.
A questioning of the very idea of ‘generic sound’ in the face of the ever growing datafication of the mundane.
Informed by DJ practice and practice-led research, this audio paper shares historical examples of locked grooves alongside loop-based compositions and a new installation work.
This audio paper consider how human activity as a possible vehicle of interference serves as a resistance agent against the speculated becoming-generic of alert sounds in public and private spaces.
This audio paper is a provocation in response to the political provocation of generic aural gentrification.
This audio paper investigates the private and public ways in which we encounter or engage with sounds, questioning the particularity of sound events as they enter our acoustic boundaries.
An audio paper on the historical scold’s bridle: a Late Middle Ages' torture instrument used by European men to silence European women and enslaved Africans.
This audio paper explores choric settings of generic voices as a vehicle for contemplating and deconstructing concepts of Being and subjectivity.
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.
This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.
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.
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.
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