Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.
Grounded in a conviction that how we listen matters deeply in the context of ongoing social, political, and ecological crises, Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.
Drawing the parameters of sound studies broadly, this 15-chapter book is written entirely collaboratively, and from a multidisciplinary perspective, and seeks to investigate the relationships between the listening body and the politics of place, space, and culture. Each section includes scores for situated listening, which take the form of diagrams, instructions, exercises, images, and meditations. The scores offer alternate modes of sharing the central ideas of the associated chapters, inviting the reader to shift from theory into practice. This book contributes to decolonial, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist scholarship in the field of sound studies, by centering listening as a situated and relational practice.
Situated Listening brings together a roster of accomplished, international contributors, making it essential supplementary reading for advanced undergraduates and researchers in sound studies. It will also be of interest to sound artists, as well as faculty and students in the fields of Music, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, and Urban Design.
Part 1: Methodologies of Listening
1. Listening to Noise: Lines of
Affinity and Feminist Sono-Techno-Political artivisms from the South
2.
Listening to our Listening: Deep Listening in Critical Sites
3. Unlistening
4. Listening With, or the Impossibility of Inhabiting Anothers Ears
5. The
weak power of listening: a conversation between Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri
and Rolando Vįzquez Part 2: Apparatuses of Listening
6. Audible Ghosts
7.
Technologies, Precariousness and Coloniality
8. Addressing Deep Code
Problems: Listening to Opera Through the Worlds Liveness
9. Endarkened
Listening
10. Amplified States: Listening as Coming to Know Part 3: Cultures
of Situated Listening
11. The Sound of Hate: White Nationalist Epistemology
and Neo Nazi Nation Building on Telegram
12. Mythic Sonic Beings: A
Multitrack Conversation
13. The Sonic Sensorium. Listening with the
un(der)heard
14. Transperceptive Listening: Sonic Meditations for a
Pluriverse
15. Collaborative composition: An exchange of sounding
Stephanie Loveless is a media artist whose research centres on practices of listening. She is senior lecturer in Arts, Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and editor of A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros.
Tullis Rennie is a composer, improviser, recordist, and researcher in socially engaged sound practices. His creative work encompasses audio composition, installation, participative community projects, and live/improvised performances presented in over 20 countries. He is senior lecturer in Music at City St Georges, University of London.
Morten Sųndergaard is an internationally acclaimed curator and Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the head curator at Momentum Biennial 2025 and founder of the conference series POM Politics of the Machines. He has published on sound- and media art and curated exhibitions including ZKM, Eyebeam, and Roskilde.
Freya Zinovieff is a sound artist, researcher, and curator. Freya's research covers the intersections of sound, violence, ethics, and activism. Freya holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University, a First-Class Honours degree from Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University, and an MFA from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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