Polisonics

Matt Lewis is an artist and researcher based in Margate and London. Informed by a background in music, he is passionate about the importance of coming together in groups to make things happen. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths and works at the Royal College of Art in London, where he teaches sound and is part of the Voicing Sound research group.Manal Massalha is a London-based sociologist, urban ethnographer, and social documentary photographer/videographer. Manal holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and her practice explores the everyday and the mundane, the human and the urban, the cultural and the social, and the political and the economic.

• Introduction 1. Sounding and Listening in Place: Four Events in the Nottingdale Community After the Grenfell Tower Fire 2. A Manifesto for Integrating Audio Description in Design Practice 3. For Sound to Emanate from Sites: Or, Some Notes on Black Sonic Bildung 4. Re-Situating Machine Listening: The Question of "Justice" in the Voice Biometry Apparatus of the German Asylum System 5. Speaking Thr-o-ugh: Putting It Out, Speaking, Listening, Disrupting? 6. Hearing the Difference: Tradition, Futurity, and the Black Time of Sounding in Channel One Sound System’s Sessions 7. Ethnographies of Listening: Settler-Colonial Violence, Erasure, and Convivial Possibilities 8. Noise (Unk)now(n) 9. Soundwashing