... and Friedman. Analysis of archival broadcasts suggests that the World Ear Project was a space in which composers could contribute and use the medium of field recording to interrogate their creative practices, while average KPFA listeners also steadily provided diverse soundscape recordings of environments from...

...Milena Droumeva Using the urban portmanteau terms “coffice” and “coffitivity” as a starting point, this paper examines ideas around sound and productivity with a focus on coffee shop ambiences. The project considers café soundscapes “soundscapes of productivity” reflective of changing attention...

...Joella Bitter Widely discussed among scholars of cities in Africa is the need to conceive these cities as relational formations, but rarely is the sensory addressed. Scholarship on urban soundscapes has tended to emphasize aesthetic and technological practices without grappling with their aural...

... the author’s own artistic practice, using the headphones and soundscape from a recent project Melt Me Into the Ocean, which explored connectedness to the deep ocean from land through sound walks. It also discusses the current project From a Whale’s Back, which works with video, sound, and data from the latest...