Sound, Media, Ecology

Milena Droumeva is Assistant Professor in Communication and Glenfraser Endowed Professor in Sound Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, specializing in cultural sound studies and sensory ethnography. She works across the fields of urban soundscape research, sonification for public engagement, as well as gender and sound in video games.Randolph Jordan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. His research, teaching, and creative practice reside at the intersections of soundscape research, media studies, and critical geography. He has published widely on the ways in which the fields of acoustic ecology and film sound studies can inform each other.

• 1. Sound, Media, Ecology: Introduction in Three Acts, Milena Droumeva and Randolph Jordan.- Section I: Acoustic Ecology: Foundations and Critical Responses.- 2. Acoustic ecology and the World Soundscape Project, Barry Truax.- 3. The Disruptive Nature of Listening, Hildegard Westerkamp.- 4. Local Eardonances: The Contribution of Acoustic Ecology to the History and Present-Day Practice of Noise Abatement, Karin Bijsterveld.- 5. Multimodal Scholarship in World Soundscape Project Composition: Toward a Different Media-Theoretical Legacy (Or: The WSP as OG DH), Jonathan Sterne.- Section II: Environment and Community.- 6. Nothing Connects Us But Imagined Sound, Mitchell Akiyama.- 7. Havana’s Falling Tanks and Flooded Laneways: Examining the Acoustic Community, Vincent Andrisani.- 8. Acoustic Ecology and Ecological Sound Art: Listening to Changing Ecosystems, Leah Barclay.- 9. Listening toEcological Interference: Renewable Technologies and their Soundscapes, Linda O’Keeffe.- Section III: Media and Society.- 10. The Uncanny Soundscapes of the Palestinian Exile: Rethinking About Technics, Memory, and Sound, Özgün Eylül İşcen.- 11. Responsive Listening: Negotiating cities of sirens, smartphones and sensors, Sarah Barns.- 12. Listening to Traffic with Guts and Antennae, Andra McCartney.- 13. Acouscenic Listening, Sean Taylor and Mikael Förnstrom (Softday).- 14. Evening of Sounds: Cultures in Call-in Programmes, Heikki Uimonen.