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Ears Have Walls

In this article I discuss how people, as listening bodies in urban spaces, both passively (via hearing) and actively (
via listening) engage with sound and unwanted noise. The uneven generation and perception of sound presents us with an important set of spatial, social, and physiological impacts. Our bodies are guided, damaged, invited, and otherwise shielded by invisible yet powerful forces. These forces have a broad patterning, what might be termed the sonic order of the city. Within the walls of homes, offices, and streets, our experience is shaped both by natural sound and, more often, by orchestrated commercial practices such as in-store radio, muzak, and the flows of rush hour traffic. This aural stage management takes places through the planning and relative containment of socially, commercially, and industrially sourced sound. This article discusses the broad relationship between these urban soundscapes and their influence on the trajectories of the human body to ask how sound and noise shape our experience and movement through the city.
Januar 2011
https://www.academia.edu/21299253/Ears_Have_Walls


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Aether: The Journal of Media Geography