1st Edition

Soundwalking Through Time, Space, and Technologies

Edited By Jacek Smolicki Copyright 2023
218 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

218 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

218 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Focal Press

Soundwalking brings together a diverse group of contemporary scholars, artists and thinkers in one of the first comprehensive studies of soundwalking – the practice of moving through space while carefully listening to what it has to say – to address urgent challenges and concerns of an environmental, ethical, social and technological nature. Besides gaining insight into the historical... Read more

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jacek Smolicki

1 – Soundwalking in the Phonocene: walking, listening, wilding

Usue Ruiz Arana

2 – Walking with sound: race and the prosthetic ear

Louis Chude-Sokei

3 – Walking and narrating SoundBorderscapes: an experience in Hong Kong

Elena Biserna

4 – Throwing Stones at Nothing

Patrick Farmer

5 – Soundwalking extinction: listening on borrowed time

Milena Droumeva

6 – Aural border thinking as a decolonial soundwalking methodology

Amanda Gutiérrez

7 – Paths of dependance: welcoming the unwelcome

Tim Shaw

8 – Soundwalking on the edges: land, safety, and privilege in São Paulo

Paola Cossermelli Messina

9 – Traversing the concrete marvel: walking the un-sung city

Katt Hernandez

10 – ‘Our voices reached the sky’: sonic memories of the Armenian Genocide

Gascia Ouzounian

11 – Composing, recomposing, and decomposing with soundscapes

Jacek Smolicki

Biography

Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, designer and educator. His work brings historical, critical and existential dimensions to listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human contexts. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from Malmö University and is currently a postdoc researcher at Linköping University. He is also a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Simon Fraser University, and 2022/2023 Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. In 2019, he co-founded the Walking Festival of Sound.