Call for abstracts (articles): Special issue of the SoundEffects journal
Theme: Sound and Listening Spaces
Editors: Editors Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen and Therese Wiwe Vilmar
Since what has popularly been called the spatial turn in the second half
of the 20th century, space has been considered a social, political and
cultural construct, as e.g. Henri Lefebvre points out in The Production
of Space (1974). This shift in the notion of space has also affected the
perception of artworks taking place in space. With sound studies and
soundscape theories (e.g. Murray Schafer), the temporal artform of music
has mutated into the spatial medium of sound. Whether we listen to the
sounds of natural or urban environments, online playlists, audio books,
curated sound art, muzac, or experience the tingling sensations of ASMR,
we find ourselves as listeners positioned in an affective space filled
with sound and at the same time created by sound – a social construct.
These listening spaces are at the core of this issue of SoundEffects.
The intersection of spaces and sounds is currently being renegotiated
owing to the revolution of digital media, with sound spaces becoming
even more fluid and increasingly mobile and portable. For instance,
listening to one's own exclusive playlist or a podcast when strolling
through the park creates a personal listening space. Live concerts,
soundscapes, and sound art are performative spaces that produce an
atmosphere on their own terms, although they can also be transmitted and
saved if necessary. The space of listening becomes a selective space
that changes the immanent sounds of a specific place. This mobility of
modern media, as well as a deeper concern for various aspects of
listening (affective, sociological, political, cultural,
phenomenological etc.), make it interesting to regard the experiences of
sound and music as particular listening spaces.
This special issue of SoundEffects focuses on the listening spaces that
we enter, experience and create.
We invite articles concerning the following subjects (this is not an
exhaustive list):
* The technology of listening
* Mobile listening
* The physical, social, political, phenomenological, affective,
cultural, and technological aspects of listening spaces
* Listening and places
* The philosophy of music, sound and space
* Sound as constructed listening space in learning environments,
institutions, cities, sales etc.
* The "live" space: performance and participation in listening spaces
Important deadlines:
Article deadline (subject to a positive review of the abstract): 1
August 2020
Published: December 2020
Please send your abstract to Therese Wiwe Vilmar:
twv@cc.au.dk
