Politics of Frequency: Re-mapping noise
Due to concerns around COVID-19, this Study Session will take place via Zoom. Please use the booking button to register your interest.
Study Sessions are informal and intimate discussion groups. This season our study-as-listening-sessions expand on the new research strand Sonic Continuum, and explore how sound and rhythm create forms of attunement between the self and the world. Readings and discussions explore the sonic, the auditory and the aural spanning philosophy, history, politics, finance and biology. The sessions open out the ideas and themes of our research strand and ask: how can listening practices produce sociality?
Although it is often thought of as unwanted or undesirable, noise is key to how we think about sound. By separating the concept of noise from sound, certain voices are amplified while others are silenced. As a concept, noise can evoke affective resonances, ethical problems, political questions and aesthetic strategies. In this study session, we use noise as a critical filter through which to think about auditory technocultures and touch on themes such as listening, aesthetic moralism and sonic normativity.
Through an introductory talk, a range of audiovisual and written materials and discussion, this study session seeks to map out noise’s environmental, communicative, political and artistic echoes.
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Marie Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Lincoln’s School of Film and Media. She is the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience (Bloomsbury, 2013). She is a founding participant (with Annie Goh) of Sonic Cyberfeminisms, an ongoing project critically and creatively interrogating the relationship between sound, gender, technology and feminism. Thompson is currently working on a collaborative project on tinnitus, auditory knowledge and the arts.
Event:
Politics of Frequency: Re-mapping noiseDates:
14 Apr 2020, 6.30pm–8.30pmSupported by:
