Sounds of Another Home: Telepresence, COVID-19 and a Bioscience Laboratory in Transition
(2021)
author(s): Rebecca Carlson
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Based on an ethnography of a bioscience laboratory in Tokyo before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper focuses on telepresence, and the growing demand for workers to maintain extended simultaneous presence in multiple electronic, or electronically augmented, spaces. In contrast to views promoting the liberating affordances of telework in the maintenance of healthy work-life balance (reduced commute time; increased “presence” in family life), an analysis of sound reveals the way the home becomes reorganized, and ultimately de-prioritized, under work demands. In particular, online meetings, which privilege discrete information exchange, position the home as a barrier to productive communications. Receding the soundscape of the home in this way reflects a normalization of the neoliberal imperative to find self-realization in workplace forms of sociality.
The Soundscape of Quarantine: The Role of Sound During a Public Health Crisis
(2020)
author(s): Braxton Boren
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people must remain indoors for a very long period of time. To mitigate the deleterious effects of a quarantine, several recommendations are proposed here to improve the soundscape for those under lockdown. Some voluntary and non-voluntary suggestions are offered to reduce low frequency noise transmission in adjacent apartment units. In addition, it is argued that reverberation and binaural rendering would provide a needed change of soundscape for those stuck indoors. Even these small measures may help make a long quarantine more tolerable so that more people stay inside until the crisis is over.
Mapa das Emoções
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): MAAR
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Nesta proposta, estamos interessadas em observar quais são as emoções convocadas no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19. Buscamos articular poéticas digitais ao campo da pesquisa (auto)biográfica de forma a criar um Mapa das Emoções numa plataforma digital para visualização artística de dados , de forma interativa, com livre acesso, em que as pessoas poderão compartilhar relatos e imagens associados a emoções específicas. Para isso, partimos das emoções que figuram na Roda das Emoções proposta pelo psicólogo Robert Plutchik (2001).