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Following the formation of the German National Socialist Party in the 1920s, various forms of sound (popular music, voice, noise and silence) and media technology (radio and loudspeaker systems) were configured as useful to the party's political programme. Focusing on the urban "soundscape" of Düsseldorf, the author makes a persuasive case for investigating such sound events and technological devices in their specific contexts of production and reception. Nazi Soundscapes identifies strategies for controlling space and reworking identity patterns, but also the ongoing difficulties in manipulating mediated sounds and the spaces of listening reception, whether in the home, workplace, the cinema, public rituals or with wartime siren systems. The study revises visualist notions of social control, and reveals the disciplinary functions of listening (as eavesdropping) as well as the sonic dimensions to exclusion and violence during Nazism. An essential title for everyone interested in the links between German political culture, audiovisual media and urban history, Nazi Soundscapes provides a fascinating analysis of the cultural significance of sound between the 1920s and early 1940s. Click "http://soundclips.humanities.uva.nl/">here for the sound clips discussed in the book.

Recently, much attention has been paid to the many different forms of collaborative or participatory practice both within, and out with the academy; from practice-based research to theoretical contributions and artistic experimentations. In terms of acoustemology as described by Steven Feld, the creative processes of collaborative soundscaping practices, developed as dialogic editing, produce theories of sound as knowledge production. Within this trend of doing anthropology in sound, sound art works aim to reconnect communities to the environment and indicate the emergence and presence of an ecological and aesthetic co-evolution. Such projects, in fostering interdisciplinary approaches, allow the development of hybrid types of knowledge through dialogic exchanges, and engage multiple agents by developing audile techniques. They also raise interesting questions within collaborative and interdisciplinary creative practice, in relation to the critical examination of the instrumentality of collaboration. By focusing on field recordings and soundscape compositions this paper discusses ecological sound art works that use collaborative creativity, new technologies, and phenomenological listening, to produce dialogic and collaborative forms of epistemic and material equity. These sound art works are the result of complex expressions of creative processes that involve multiple agents, while successfully voice their authorial presence. The interdisciplinary, collaborative and open-ended nature of these projects brings forward the social and political dimension of sound and listening, which could figure in more collaborative forms of knowledge production and inspire climate action.

Sound is one of the most direct pathways to a person's mood and emotions. Tuning the urban soundscape by enhancing the experience of existing elements or by introducing new sounds therefore allows to create more pleasant and restoring public spaces or to nudge the crowd towards a more social behaviour. For this, sounds produced by loudspeakers or mechanical systems have been used but apart from some sonic exhibitions, the installations do not allow for user interaction. This paper discusses how ICT could be introduced in soundscape design. It is based on recent findings on perception of the urban sonic environment and interpretation of the soundscape by the users of the space. Evolution in machine listening allows to adapt installations to the current state of the soundscape and open new opportunities. It is concluded that the ICT may promote urban sound planning, an often forgotten aspect of designing the urban environment. ; Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. ; peer-reviewed

Acoustic environments and soundscapes / A. Lex Brown, Truls Gjestland, and Danièle Dubois -- From sonic environment to soundscape / Dick Botteldooren, Tjeerd Andringa, Itziar Aspuru, A. Lex Brown, Danièle Dubois, Catherine Guastavino, Jian Kang, Catherine Lavender, Mats Nilsson, Anna Preis, and Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp -- Soundscapes, human restoration, and quality of life / Irene Van Kamp, Ronny Klæboe, A. Lex Brown, and Peter Lercher -- Impact of soundscape in terms of perception / Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp and André Fiebig -- Perceived soundscapes and health-related quality of life, context, restoration, and personal characteristics: case studies / Peter Lercher, Irene Van Kamp, Eike Von Lindern, and Dick Botteldooren -- Human hearing-related measurement and analysis of acoustic environments: requisite for soundscape investigations / Klaus Genuit and André Fiebig -- Mapping of soundscape / Jian Kang, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, André Fiebig, and Dick Botteldooren -- Approaches to urban soundscape management, planning, and design / J. Luis Bento Coelho -- Soundscape as part of the cultural heritage / Luigi Maffei, Giovanni Brambilla, and Maria Di Gabriele -- Applied soundscape practices / Lisa Lavia, Max Dixon, Harry J. Witchel, and Mike Goldsmith

Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context of Uyghur society in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where communities are increasingly engaging with transnational currents of Islamic ideology, and increasingly under pressure from the state that conflates religiosity with anti-state activity and extremist terrorism. The article focuses on Islamic media, in particular at the ways in which rural Uyghur women experience and reproduce globalized forms of Islamic media. It aims to understand how the most marginalized sectors of society are engaging with these changing religious ideologies and practices. The theoretical frame draws on notions of the 'soundscape', which explore the ways in which sound, practices of listening and perceptions of sound, may be central to making sense of the world around us.

Abstract: The density of major cities in Indonesia is the impact of the rapid development of the population. Increasing the population as well as their welfare make the residential and traffic environment in urban areas less healthy. Noisy, and air quality as the main indicators that can be felt to be very disturbing to the human environment. The sound quality perspective is one that is overlooked. Even though the government of the Republic of Indonesia has issued standard noise levels in Kep-48 / MENLH / 11/1996, evaluation and control of reality in the field is still lacking. The soundscape approach that is very concerned about the environment as a resource will be the most effective when applied in urban and regional planning. This paper aims to explore how sound impacts in providing an auditory experience in open space through a soundscape approach with case studies of open space or the court of the Great Mosque of Yogyakarta. This case can be an example of implementing a strategy to create peace of space in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the city. On the other hand soundscaping techniques become the needs of every city to do, and in particular there must be a spatial pattern that unites and adapts to each other between buildings, open spaces, vegetation, water elements and activities, so that the sustainability of a comfortable and calm space will last long. Keywords: space sustainability; noise; auditory experience; soundscapeAbstrak: Kepadatan kota-kota besar di Indonesia merupakan dampak perkembangan penduduk yang begitu cepat meningkat. Peningkatan jumlah penduduk sekaligus kesejahteraan mereka membuat lingkungan pemukiman dan lalu lintas di perkotaan semakin kurang sehat. Bising, dan kualitas udara sebagai indikator utama yang dapat dirasakan sangat mengganggu lingkungan hidup manusia. Perspektif kualitas suara adalah salah satu yang terabaikan. Sekalipun pemerintah Republik Indonesa sudah mengeluarkan baku tingkat kebisingan dalam Kep-48/MENLH/11/1996, namun evaluasi dan kontrol terhadap kenyataan di lapangan masih kurang dilakukan. Pendekatan soundscape yang sangat memperhatikan lingkungan sebagai sumber daya akan menjadi yang paling efektif bila diterapkan dalam perencanaan kota dan kawasan. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi bagaimana dampak suara dalam memberikan pengalaman auditory dalam ruang terbuka melalui pendekatan soundscape dengan studi kasus kawasan ruang terbuka atau pelataran Masjid Agung Yogyakarta. Kasus ini dapat menjadi contoh penerapan strategi menciptakan ketenangan ruang di tengah hiruk pikuk kota. Di sisi lain teknik soundscaping menjadi kebutuhan setiap kota untuk dilakukan, dan secara khusus harus ada pola spasial yang menyatukan dan saling menyesuaikan antara bangunan, ruang terbuka, vegetasi, unsur air dan aktifitas, sehingga keberlanjutan ruang kawasan yang terkondisi nyaman dan tenang akan bisa bertahan lama.Kata Kunci: keberlanjutan ruang; kebisingan; pengalaman auditory; soundscape

A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that gave rise to anthropological recording practices, film sound techniques, and experimental sound art, noting productive interweavings of these threads. After considering ethnographies that explore relationships between sound, personhood, aesthetics, history, and ideology, we question sound's supposed ephemerality as a reason for the discipline's inattention. We conclude with a call for an anthropology that more seriously engages with its own history as a sounded discipline and moves forward in ways that incorporate the social and cultural sounded world more fully.

Infrastrukturen, die die Entwicklung des Urbanen bestimmen, werden in der Stadt- und Architekturtheorie vor allem als technische Artefakte erfasst. Dabei gerät jedoch in den Hintergrund, wie technische Mittel der Fortbewegung, soziale Entwicklungen, politische Ereignisse und ästhetische Formen ineinander greifen und die Erfahrung der Stadt bestimmen. Die einzelnen Beiträge dieses Bandes zeigen aus dem Blickwinkel der Film-, Medien-, Kultur- und Architekturwissenschaft, wie Synergieeffekte zwischen Film, Stadtplanung und Architektur erfasst und für die Planbarkeit von Städten bedeutsam werden k