Sound, Media, Ecology

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This volume reads the global urban environment through mediated sonic practices to put a contemporary spin on acoustic ecology’s investigations at the intersection of space, cultures, technology, and the senses. Acoustic ecology is an interdisciplinary framework from the 1970s for documenting, analyzing, and transforming sonic environments: an early model of the cross-boundary thinking and multi-modal practices now common across the digital humanities. With the recent emergence of sound studies and the expansion of “ecological” thinking, there is an increased urgency to re-discover and contemporize the acoustic ecology tradition. This book serves as a comprehensive investigation into the ways in which current scholars working with sound are re-inventing acoustic ecology across diverse fields, drawing on acoustic ecology’s focus on sensory experience, place, and applied research, as well as attendance to mediatized practices in sounded space. From sounding out the Anthropocene, to rethinking our auditory media landscapes, to exploring citizenship and community, this volume brings the original acoustic ecology problem set into the contemporary landscape of sound studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Sound, Media, Ecology: Introduction in Three Acts (Milena Droumeva, Randolph Jordan)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Acoustic Ecology and the World Soundscape Project (Barry Truax)....Pages 21-44 The Disruptive Nature of Listening: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow (Hildegard Westerkamp)....Pages 45-63 Local Eardonances: Raymond Murray Schafer’s Contribution to the History and Present-Day Practice of Noise Abatement (Karin Bijsterveld)....Pages 65-84 Multimodal Scholarship in World Soundscape Project Composition: Toward a Different Media-Theoretical Legacy (Or: The WSP as OG DH) (Jonathan Sterne)....Pages 85-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Nothing Connects Us but Imagined Sound (Mitchell Akiyama)....Pages 113-129 Havana’s Falling Tanks and Flooded Laneways: Examining the Acoustic Community (Vincent Andrisani)....Pages 131-151 Acoustic Ecology and Ecological Sound Art: Listening to Changing Ecosystems (Leah Barclay)....Pages 153-177 Listening to Renewable Energy Technologies (Linda O Keeffe)....Pages 179-195 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 The Uncanny Soundscapes of the Palestinian Exile: Rethinking Technics, Memory, and Sound (Özgün Eylül İşcen)....Pages 199-216 Responsive Listening: Negotiating Cities of Sirens, Smartphones and Sensors (Sarah Barns)....Pages 217-231 Listening to Traffic with Guts and Antennae (Andra McCartney)....Pages 233-241 Acouscenic Listening (Sean Taylor, Mikael Fernström (Softday))....Pages 243-259 Evening of Sounds: Auditory Cultures in Radio Call-in Programmes (Heikki Uimonen)....Pages 261-284 Back Matter ....Pages 285-294