Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Anette Vandsø and Morten Breinbjerg

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Marie Koldkjær Højlund is an Associate Professor of Sound Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. in Audio Design with a dissertation about sound and noise in Danish Hospitals. Marie is an active sound artist and composer and has been engaged in designing sound environments and installations for various public spaces and hospitals, including the Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture project The Overheard.  

 

Morten Breinbjerg is a lecturer in interactive sound design and software studies and holds a Ph.D. in computer music. He has worked with sonification of climate data and cultural heritage dissemination through interactive sound installations. Since 2015, Morten Breinbjerg has headed the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University.

 

Anette Vandsø is an associate professor and co-director of the research programme in Environmental Media and Aesthetics, whose work explores intersections of environmental issues, (techno-)aesthetic practices and art. She has published broadly on these matters latest in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art and Nordic Journal of Aesthetics. 

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  • Sonic Citizenship: About the Messy and Fragile Negotiations With and Through Sound (2024) author(s): Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Anette Vandsø and Morten Breinbjerg published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    In this article we propose the concept of "sonic citizenship" as a framework for the multitude of ways in which we, in the rhythms of our everyday lives, form the aural background of each other, and how citizenship is practiced, negotiated, and maintained through everyday sonic activities. With examples of messy, fragile, and difficult interactions with sound from the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, we argue that the effort of tuning the soundscapes of the world needs to be complemented by an attuning approach that focuses on the negotiations we are constantly involved with in our everyday lives. The soundscape approach in the tradition of R. Murray Schafer implies that the soundscape is there as a landscape that we can uncover and tune. Conversely, the attuning approach of sonic citizenship understands soundscapes as relationships and dynamic configurations to which we must continuously attune, and which are themselves reconfigured via breaks in habitual attunements.
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