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Sonic Relations as Bulging Spheres (2021)

Sandra Lori Petersen
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In multistory housing, sounds occasionally penetrate the walls and floors separating apartments. It may seem like this is a one-way flow of acoustic waves moving through built material from one inhabitant to another. In this article, I show that acoustic waves passing among apartments often move in more ways than just through built material. I propose a conceptualization of the auditory connection between neighbors as sonic relations that consist not only of concrete sounds but also of a range of abstract emotional layers, elements of personal histories, and interpersonal conflicts. Through an exploration of the accounts of two neighbors living in an early 20th-century building in Copenhagen, I show how the sonic relation between them can be understood as interfering in the domestic-personal spheres that shape both of them.
typeresearch exposition
date02/11/2021
published02/11/2021
last modified02/11/2021
statuspublished
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copyrightPetersen
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1406993/1406994
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.1406993
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue22. Issue 22


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