...Emma W. Olson This article explores the sounds of cultural encounter and colonial violence dramatically rendered in the 13th-century Chronicle of Henry of Livonia during the Baltic Crusades. In his chronicle, Henry claims to provide an eyewitness account of the sonic weapons the Germans deployed...

... and where he sees the relationship between AI and musical creativity going in the future. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 AI music creativity Nao Tokui sound Nao Tokui is an artist, researcher, and DJ who has been finding interesting new ways of integrating...

...Mhamad Safa; Gascia Ouzounian This conversation, which took place at The Showroom, London, on March 8, 2022, brings together the sound producer and architect Mhamad Safa and the sonic theorist Gascia Ouzounian in exploring Safa’s work on sound, trauma, and acoustic jurisprudence, with a focus...

...Rafael Frumkin An essay of creative nonfiction about sound and queerness, including descriptions of trans and queer culture as they apply to the sonic arts. I got a double mastectomy in the summer of 2021, also referred to as top surgery. When they put me out, I was still unsure if I wanted...

...Malcolm Ogden This paper argues that the album/playlist LEGO White Noise , released on Spotify in 2021, can be understood in relation to various other kinds of self-care oriented audiovisual media that have proliferated online in recent years, such as ambient, sound-healing, and ASMR. Beginning...

...Miniature Malekpour This study examines the role of sound and the cultural dialogue of “transnational status” in pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, and more specifically, in the film-Farsi period. This study contributes to the literature because it mainly investigates how gender consciousness...

... the most effective option for activism and engagement. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 sound protest civil rights quiet activism The case is often described as a love story. In June of 1958, in Washington, DC, Mildred Jeter married Richard Loving. Though...

...Carter Mathes Rachel Fernandes’s essay in this issue, “Listening to Loving: Mildred Loving and the Case for Quiet Activism,” offers many openings for further contemplations of the oscillating frequencies moving between sound, the multidimensionality of being, and visual representation...

...Whitney Johnson An aesthetic controversy regarding the value of conceptual and ambient sound art opens this theoretical investigation into sensation, perception, and understanding. The contrast between valuing sound through language or listening calls on aesthetic philosophy and social...

...John F. Barber This essay considers the role of sound, as in spoken voice, in two multimedia memorials to individuals killed by violence in the United States. The first is Remembering the Dead , a memorial to victims of mass shootings from the 1880s to the present. The second is Say Their Names...

...Carter Mathes This response offers a critical engagement with and reflection on the work of photographer D. Michael Cheers, specifically his essay on sound and photography, “Listening for the Pictures: Capturing History in Real Time,” in conjunction with selections of his photographic work...

... carry a significant importance as narrative elements. Taking five music-related documentary films into account— Lot 63, Grave C (Sam Green); Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (Fatih Akin); Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, and Jessica Joywise); The Decline of Western...

.... This article examines the gentrification of Berlin’s former working-class neighborhood Prenzlauer Berg in terms of sound. We present the Knaack Klub as a sonic case study symbolizing the erasure of the voices and culture of Berlin’s long-term residents and argue that contestations over sound, brought...

...Michele Hilmes In the 1990s, thanks to digital convergence, many disciplines centrally concerned with the mediated uses of sound from a variety of different orientations—communication, musicology, speech, ethnography, history of technology, journalism, theater and drama, and art, to name a few...

...Marina L. Peterson; Vicki L. Brennan We propose a sonic ethnography that focuses on listening, departing from an investigation of a soundscape to one that attends to how people listen. This, we suggest, is crucial for an anthropological approach that understands sound as processual and relational...

...Ivoline Kefen Budji This paper examines how women of the northwestern Grassfields of Cameroon transpose and deploy lamentation sounds as a means of nonviolently resisting, challenging, counteracting, and controlling the audio-sphere hitherto militarized through the weaponization of the sounds...

...Christoph Cox This essay considers the politics of sound on the model of migration and borders, that is, as concerning flows and codes, inclusions and exclusions. A rigorously materialist analysis of sound would consider it as one of the many flows that constitute nature and culture. On this model...