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.

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

Locked grooves

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.

By Mike Callander

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

Noisy interference in the becoming-generic of sonic alerts

This audio paper considers 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.

By sound braid

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

A city we can get up and go to work in

This audio paper is a provocation in response to the political provocation of generic aural gentrification.

By Macon Holt

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

Azan, a call to prayer

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.

By Pei Ann Yeoh

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

Resonant gender performativity

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.

By Luca Soudant

PEER audio paper09.11.2024

A slight case of self

This audio paper explores choric settings of generic voices as a vehicle for contemplating and deconstructing concepts of Being and subjectivity.

By Katharina Schmidt

PEER audio paper31.01.2024

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.

By Carlos Manrique Clavijo

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Olya Zikrata

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Vita Zelenska

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Andile Lindokuhle Sibiya, Kevin Gordon, Matthias Kispert

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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

By Morten Poulsen

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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

By Emery Petchauer , Ruth Nicole Brown

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Francisco Mazza

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted

PEER audio paper11.12.2023

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.

By Ania Mauruschat

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Lament is like a safe lap

In this audio paper, we are focusing on a guided lamenting circle, and explore on the meanings that the participants in the circle give to the lament.

By Elina Hytönen-Ng, Emilia Kallonen

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Secrets and pop

This audio performance paper queries if the application of sound and music has the potential to evoke and relieve the pain of intergenerational grief.

By leon clowes

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Sonic worlds collide – sounds from Ukraine

In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.

By Milena Droumeva , Svitlana Matviyenko

PEER audio paper23.08.2023

Creating grief and lamenting on stage

This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.

By Viliina Silvonen, Emmi Kuittinen