Sonic Urbanism – Contents

Preface
&beyond collective

Introduction
John Bingham-Hall

The State of Things
Sara Rodrigues

Attuning to Disturbance
Towards a multi-species sonic ecology
Nicola Di Croce

Critical Disturbance
Nastassja Simensky

Lockdown Sonics
A conversation
Matilde Meireles and Gascia Ouzounian

The Background Buzz
Listening to electrical substations
Juan Guillermo Dumay and Ruth Oldham

Communities of Electromagnetic Resistance
More-than-human responses to the wireless world
Matt Parker

Interspecies Intersections
Natasha Nicholson

Listening With
A podcast of sound strategies for survival
Listening With collective

Radio Gardening in Lagos
T-Shine-baba, Tushar Hathiramani, Monaí de Paula Antunes, Niko de Paula Lefort, Seetal Solanki

Your Mating Call Is Important To Us
The Sousrealists

Listening to Pigeons
A history of an avian typology
Ahmed bin Shabib and Rashid bin Shabib

For an Ec(h)o-politics of Noise
The protest songs of “invasive” parakeets
Nuno da Luz

When Parrots of Tehran Confess
A sonic relationship in three acts
Sepideh Karami and Elahe Karimnia

More Than Human Publics
John Bingham-Hall

Conclusion
Sonic urbanism(s) in practice
John Bingham-Hall

Contributors

The Political Voice is the second publication in the Sonic Urbanism series edited by &beyond for Theatrum Mundi.

Published in 2020, the contributors to this issue explore the role of the human voice in defining public space as a contested political arena. From chanted shout or song to overheard speech and even silence, voices reverberate through these pages allowing us to hear our cities anew. The Political Voice is designed to be read and heard across print and digital formats.

Introduction
George Kafka, &beyond collective

As Far as the Ear Can Hear
Listening to the social city
Grégoire Chelkoff

Polyvocality
On the mechanical separation of body and voice
Eleni Ikoniadou

The Movement Exists in Voice and Sound
Political reverberations between Damascus and Athens
Kareem Al Kabbani and Tom Western

The Cries of London
On costers, pedlars, hawkers,
fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys
Duncan MacLeod

Resonant Bodies
A discussion about listening in museums
Eric de Visscher and Gascia Ouzounian

The Commons and the Square
A Politics of Resonance
Ella Finer

Post-Conflict Soundings
Noise and voice in Abidjan
Fabien Cante

Scoring the Social Voice
Lin Chi-Wei’s “Tape Music”
Jonathan Packham

But Can It Talk Back?
Conversations with the city
John Bingham-Hall with Alexandra Lacroix and Saskia Sassen

Contributors