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  Home page JSS (2022) author(s): Journal of Sonic Studies published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  Home page of the Journal of Sonic Studies
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  JSS TOCs (2022) author(s): Journal of Sonic Studies published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  Table of contents JSS issues
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  Sounds of the Balkan - Editorial (2022) author(s): Diana Grgurić published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  Sounds of the Balkan - Editorial
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  Listening against "The Transition" (2022) author(s): Theodore Teichman published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  This is an archive of places, but it is even more an archive of the materiality of listening. This constitutes a larger inquiry and fascination with the listening as performance and the various “instruments” and “scores” that shape or encode this sonic event of the performance of the image. In particular, this project uses this arts-based research approach to engage critically with the concept of "The Transition," which has shaped the geography and imaginary of Ex-Yugoslavia. This is a collection of recordings made and then composed into soundscapes between September 2018 and May 2019 in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Through these techniques I propose an approach soundscape practices to engage materially the constitutive world of listening and the narration of time-worlds.
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  Soundscapes of Stalinism: Acoustical Experiences in Bucharest in the 1940s and 1950s (2022) author(s): Błażej Brzostek published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
  In this paper I point out phenomena related to the perception of sounds in Bucharest during the Stalinist period (1948-1956). I refer to personal accounts – diaries and memoirs – of representants of the city’s former social elite, sentenced to various deprivations under the communist regime. I focus on descriptive accounts of sounds in the city’s everyday life. The sounds are treated as an expression of the mental experiences of their listeners. In the sources collected here, the key experience is a reduction of agency, associated with existential anxiety.
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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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