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  A Spectral Geology (2022) author(s): D.A. Calf published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  Monuments exist as loci of official history, designed to be resilient and permanent. However, the world around them is in constant flux, questioning their continued significance. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at monument (spomenik) sites in the former Yugoslav republics of the Western Balkans, together with archival sources, A Spectral Geology is a creative outcome of a continuing speculative investigation into sound and its potential contribution to alternative historical narratives. In imagining sound as a geological, sedimentary medium with the potential to transmit and sequester memory, it considers the possibility of hearing the murmured traces of the past through its excavation.
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  What is the Affect of a Merry Genre? The Sonic Organization of Slovenian Folk Pop as a (Non)Balkan Sound (2022) author(s): Robert Bobnič, Natalija Majsova, and Jasmina Šepetavc published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  This article examines Slovenian folk pop: an allegedly “national Slovenian” musical genre and sound. We analyze the political discourses, sonic organization, and affect of Slovenian folk pop, applying the theoretical perspectives of cultural studies, sonic studies, and affect studies, to decouple the affect of Slovenian folk pop from spontaneously ideological associations with the nation and its borders. We advocate for a layered analytical lens accounting for the sonic and sociocultural dimensions of music, concluding that analyses of modern, (seemingly) locally-specific genres, should consider how and to what ends affect is territorialized and inscribed into the framework of the nation.
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  The Right to Polished Sound: Age and Class in the Viennese Balkan Music Scene (2022) author(s): Ondřej Daniel published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  This study explores the musical sounds that link contemporary Vienna to the countries of the former Yugoslavia. For this purpose, I uncover a layer of South Slavic sounds in the Austrian capital and analyze two musical contributions to the city by migrants from this former socialist federation. I consider Vienna’s residents from the former Yugoslavia to be a distinct acoustic community; the two sound objects are in particular analyzed regarding age and class of both their producers and consumers.
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  Contextualities of Listening to Soundscapes: The Past and The Present Converging in Sarajevo (2022) author(s): Maja Zećo published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  This article discusses the relationship between autobiographical memories and personal and group identities in the post-conflict soundscape of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The discussion will focus on the perspectives of residents and their intersecting narratives, collected in interviews, on the city's soundscape. I will relay intimate experiences of the city's soundscapes, contextualized from the position of a listener who is native to the city. The ways in which memories of the recent war (1992-1996) inform conversations reveal links between traumatic memories and experiences of environmental sounds. From the religious calls of mosques and churches to inhabitants pleading for help on the streets of Sarajevo, the complexity of contexts that play a role in knowledge production about the city will be explored through listening and writing. The article, in the form of praxis, aims to accentuate the importance of local knowledge of soundscape as a means of decolonizing the sonic arts discourse. An interest in the ways that the city’s inhabitants engage with contemporary soundscapes and how the past informs our present knowledge about places guides this inquiry.
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  Сарајево concrète (2022) author(s): Lasse-Marc Riek published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  The recordings presented here are made in 2004 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the main focus on Sarajevo. I had come to Bosnia to find out what was still audible from the war, which at that time was ten years ago. The central core of the recordings is the documentation of everyday life: churches and mosques, streetcars, people on sidewalks and in cafes. Ten years after persecuting and murdering each other, they are living together again.
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  Multiple Perceptions of the Everyday Unfolded: The Case Study of Sunnyside (2022) author(s): Matilde Meireles published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  This article introduces the project "Sunnyside", an album and composition created using extended recording techniques inside the domestic space of my home during the initial Covid-19 lockdown in Belfast in 2020. While there was widespread public discourse around the ways in which public and outdoor spaces were changing during the pandemic, there was relatively little discussion concerning the changes occurring in indoor and domestic spaces. "Sunnyside" was an attempt to sense, analyze, and represent those changes and examine what they might mean. The following discussion draws on ideas of critical phonography, systems theory, situated knowledge, and interconnectivity to illustrate the project’s refusal of the physical boundaries of the home under lockdown. This critical reflection on everyday routines underscores the project’s relationship with memory, place, and the sonic documentation of everyday personal auditory experiences while opening up a discussion about social networks, both immediate and distributed.
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