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 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.

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.