Journal of Sonic Studies 21 - Sound at Home 1: Territory, Materiality and the Extension of Home The
editorial team of The Journal of Sonic Studies (JSS) is happy and proud
to announce that JSS21 is online now. Please click here for the Table of Contents and the links to all articles. JSS21 is
edited by Mette
Simonsen Abildgaard, Marie Koldkjær Højlund and Sandra Lori Petersen, and the papers and exhibitions in this issue question
whether the territory of the home is demarcated by its walls and floors or made
up of zones of sounds that might be designed. They question what happens when
the workplace is acoustically present in a kitchen as well as how intimacy is
distributed throughout the home, for example when private conversations take
place on a landline situated in the living room. As we learn from the papers
published here, sonic territoriality of the home implies exploring and
negotiating what makes up a home as well as the possibility of stretching and
rearranging the established order of the home. When headphones are used to
accompany the listener through the city, they might be considered a component
of a sonic shield of familiarity, with COVID-19 making the notion of the home
as a shield especially poignant. When sound becomes transportable through
electronic devices, its materiality comes to the fore – the handheld device makes
it (almost) tangible; when one’s work is building musical instruments, working
from home implies impactful changes in the sounds at home. And when the online
meeting platforms that COVID-19 has made us integrate into our working lives
filter and configure sound in a certain way, sounds that we might not have
noticed before suddenly become remarkable. Table of Contents: ANTIVIRUS !Make some domestic noise! Track I on ∏ Node - Sarah Brown and Valentina Vuksic Editorial - Sound at Home 1: Territory, Materiality and the Extension of Home - Mette Simonsen Abildgaard, Marie Koldkjær Højlund and Sandra Lori Petersen At Home in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles Festival Neighborhood - Edda Bild, Daniel Steele, Catherine Guastavino Sounds of Another Home: Telepresence, COVID-19 and a Bioscience Laboratory in Transition - Rebecca Carlson Acoustic Territories of the Body: Headphone Listening, Embodied Space, and the Phenomenology of Sonic Homeliness - Jacob Kingsbury Downs Soundwalking Homes in Design Ethnography - Stine Schmieg Johansen and Peter Axel Nielsen Fading Quietly - Nanna Hauge Kristensen Sound, Space, and the Home(less) - Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn Echoes of Subjectivity: A Literary Acoustemology of the Home - Katharina Schmidt Telephonic Territories. The Landline Phone As a “Place-Dependent” Sound Technology - Mette Simonsen Abildgaard ANTIVIRUS !Make some domestic noise! Track II on ∏ Node - Sarah Brown and Valentina Vuksic Vincent Meelberg ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Founding editor of the Journal of Sonic Studies - http://www.sonicstudies.org |