Soundwalking: Through Time, Space, and Technologies

ISBN-13: 9781032044224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str.

Smolicki, Jacek

Opis

Soundwalking brings together a diverse group of scholars, artists and activists in one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking - the practice of moving through space while carefully listening to what it has to say - to address urgent challenges and concerns of an environmental, ethical, social, and technological nature.

Spis treści

1. Soundwalking in the Phonocene: walking, listening, wilding  2. Walking with sound: race and the prosthetic ear  3. Walking and narrating SoundBorderscapes: an experience in Hong Kong  4. Throwing Stones at Nothing  5. Soundwalking extinction: listening on borrowed time  6. Aural border thinking as a decolonial soundwalking methodology  7. Paths of dependance: welcoming the unwelcome  8. Soundwalking on the edges: land, safety, and privilege in São Paulo  9. Traversing the concrete marvel: walking the un-sung city  10. ‘Our voices reached the sky’: sonic memories of the Armenian Genocide  11. Composing, recomposing, and decomposing with soundscapes

O autorze

Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His work brings historical, critical and existential dimensions to listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Malmö University and is currently a postdoc researcher at Linköping University. He is also a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Simon Fraser University, and 2022/2023 Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. In 2019, he co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound.