Noise Pollution and the Eco-Politics of Sound

Toxicity, Nature and Culture in the Contemporary Soundscape

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20486293
AutoresTom Kohut (Tom Kohut (writer, critic, curator), 48-761 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 1C5, Canada..)
Año2015
Volumen25
Páginas5-8
Fecha de publicación2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeonardo Music Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-1215 • E-ISSN: 1531-4812
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/lmj_a_00924
OpenAlexW2187002580
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas2

Sound is a political question of which the antagonisms of noise pollution are a concrete embodiment. The discourses of noise pollution tend to postulate noise as a toxin that is produced by our industrial societies and is difficult either to contain or even define precisely. Composer R. Murray Schafer contrasts this toxin with a sustaining nature, but ecological thought of the past decade suggests that nature is, in fact, unnatural. The field recordings of Chris Watson and Francisco López suggest that this natural perversity can indicate a new mode of sonic ecological sustainability

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Environmental ethics · Environmental Noise · Noise pollution · Noise reduction · Physics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soundscape · Sustainability · Watson · Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research · Computer Science · History · Law · Noise Effects and Management · Philosophy · Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology · Pollution