Acoustic Ecology

  • Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

    Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature;…

  • Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    Scott Sherk | Listening to:

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days, compilation Part 2

    Sonic, Social, Distance and Soundtracks for Strange Days, compilation Part 2

        Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have gone behind them–time has…

  • Covid Backyard | Dirk de Bruyn

    Covid Backyard | Dirk de Bruyn

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distanc As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    Urban Auscultation: Perceiving the Action of the Heart

    New article by Shannon Mattern at Places Journal on urban soundscape and the importance of listening to the city nowadays. “For months, the Covid-19 virus has passed from body to body around the world. Its corporeal work is silent, but…

  • Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…