Milena Droumeva
Biographic Data
| ID | 158908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milena Droumeva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milena |
| FAMILY NAME | Droumeva |
| SIGNATURE | DROUMEVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7105-8988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elephant in the Matrix
With the maturing of sound studies, and its intersection with critical studies, more attention is being given to the Anglo-Euro-centric and hegemonic legacy of acoustic ecology, as well as the cultural dimensions of sound studies. Discord between the practice of sound inquiry and sound ethnography has thus ensued, signaling the need to reexamine language and concept limitations, long-standing methods, approaches, and assumptions embedded in sonic…
What Does the Livable City Sound Like? Analyzing Public Communication in Vancouver, Canada
Background: Livability has suffered from lack of engagement with the sensory aspects of urban life. Analysis: This article offers a content and discourse analysis of the keywords sound, noise, and livability found in two types of public communication streams in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: local news media and public city planning documents. Conclusion and implications: The analysis finds a critical missing link between neoliberal discour…
Soundscapes of Productivity
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 spans, work process, and stress management that invoke cultural histories of Muzak, personalized sonic spaces, and the sonic management of everyday life. A result of over…
The sound of the future
This sonic ecology of cities has been highlighted recently by the effects of the global pandemic: fewer cars and people on the road are letting quieter layers of the soundscape to come forward, signalling unequivocally that the urban soundscape is a direct result of anthropocenic activity. This is a time, then, to listen and reflect, and perhaps heed new models for thinking of urban sound. One barrier to such a process is the persistent and entre…
Remixing the pandemic, one sound at a time Cities and Memory, #StayHomeSounds
Established in 2014 by UK-based sound artist and field recordist Stuart Fawkes, Cities and Memories is a one-of-a-kind sonic portal dedicated to the exploration of place, sound, and memory. Except
Sound, Media, Ecology
Audible Efforts
Video games are demanding work indeed. So demanding that our screen heroes and heroines are constantly making sounds of strife, struggle, or victory while conducting surrogate labor for us running, fighting, saving worlds. These sounds also represent the very real demanding labor of voice actors, whose burnout and vocal strain have recently come to the fore in terms of the games industries’ labor standards (Cazden, 2017). But do heroes and she-ro…
Sound, Media, Ecology
Soundmapping as critical cartography
There is a kind of growing new media practice of capturing and mapping sound and an emergent global community of listeners interested in engaging with sounds of the environment, urban space, habitats and biospheres. Between user-driven Instagramming our everyday audio-visual experiences and professionally curated sound installations, there is an emergent space and a global audience for listening to ‘soundmaps’ of local and global environments. So…
Curating Everyday Life
In the last decade, the cell phone's transformation from a tool for mobile telephony into a multi-modal, computational "smart" media device has engendered a new kind of emplacement, and the ubiquity of technological mediation into the everyday settings of urban life. With it, a new kind of media literacy has become necessary for participation in the networked social publics (Ito; Jenkins et al.). Increasingly, the way we experience our physical e…
Curating Everyday Life
In the last decade, the cell phone's transformation from a tool for mobile telephony into a multi-modal, computational "smart" media device has engendered a new kind of emplacement, and the ubiquity of technological mediation into the everyday settings of urban life. With it, a new kind of media literacy has become necessary for participation in the networked social publics (Ito; Jenkins et al.). Increasingly, the way we experience our physical e…
Soundmapping as critical cartography
There is a kind of growing new media practice of capturing and mapping sound and an emergent global community of listeners interested in engaging with sounds of the environment, urban space, habitats and biospheres. Between user-driven Instagramming our everyday audio-visual experiences and professionally curated sound installations, there is an emergent space and a global audience for listening to ‘soundmaps’ of local and global environments. So…
Remixing the pandemic, one sound at a time Cities and Memory, #StayHomeSounds
Established in 2014 by UK-based sound artist and field recordist Stuart Fawkes, Cities and Memories is a one-of-a-kind sonic portal dedicated to the exploration of place, sound, and memory. Except
The sound of the future
This sonic ecology of cities has been highlighted recently by the effects of the global pandemic: fewer cars and people on the road are letting quieter layers of the soundscape to come forward, signalling unequivocally that the urban soundscape is a direct result of anthropocenic activity. This is a time, then, to listen and reflect, and perhaps heed new models for thinking of urban sound. One barrier to such a process is the persistent and entre…
Curating Everyday Life
In the last decade, the cell phone's transformation from a tool for mobile telephony into a multi-modal, computational "smart" media device has engendered a new kind of emplacement, and the ubiquity of technological mediation into the everyday settings of urban life. With it, a new kind of media literacy has become necessary for participation in the networked social publics (Ito; Jenkins et al.). Increasingly, the way we experience our physical e…
Soundmapping as critical cartography
There is a kind of growing new media practice of capturing and mapping sound and an emergent global community of listeners interested in engaging with sounds of the environment, urban space, habitats and biospheres. Between user-driven Instagramming our everyday audio-visual experiences and professionally curated sound installations, there is an emergent space and a global audience for listening to ‘soundmaps’ of local and global environments. So…
Sound, Media, Ecology
Audible Efforts
Video games are demanding work indeed. So demanding that our screen heroes and heroines are constantly making sounds of strife, struggle, or victory while conducting surrogate labor for us running, fighting, saving worlds. These sounds also represent the very real demanding labor of voice actors, whose burnout and vocal strain have recently come to the fore in terms of the games industries’ labor standards (Cazden, 2017). But do heroes and she-ro…
Sound, Media, Ecology
Soundscapes of Productivity
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 spans, work process, and stress management that invoke cultural histories of Muzak, personalized sonic spaces, and the sonic management of everyday life. A result of over…
The sound of the future
This sonic ecology of cities has been highlighted recently by the effects of the global pandemic: fewer cars and people on the road are letting quieter layers of the soundscape to come forward, signalling unequivocally that the urban soundscape is a direct result of anthropocenic activity. This is a time, then, to listen and reflect, and perhaps heed new models for thinking of urban sound. One barrier to such a process is the persistent and entre…
Remixing the pandemic, one sound at a time Cities and Memory, #StayHomeSounds
Established in 2014 by UK-based sound artist and field recordist Stuart Fawkes, Cities and Memories is a one-of-a-kind sonic portal dedicated to the exploration of place, sound, and memory. Except
What Does the Livable City Sound Like? Analyzing Public Communication in Vancouver, Canada
Background: Livability has suffered from lack of engagement with the sensory aspects of urban life. Analysis: This article offers a content and discourse analysis of the keywords sound, noise, and livability found in two types of public communication streams in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: local news media and public city planning documents. Conclusion and implications: The analysis finds a critical missing link between neoliberal discour…
Elephant in the Matrix
With the maturing of sound studies, and its intersection with critical studies, more attention is being given to the Anglo-Euro-centric and hegemonic legacy of acoustic ecology, as well as the cultural dimensions of sound studies. Discord between the practice of sound inquiry and sound ethnography has thus ensued, signaling the need to reexamine language and concept limitations, long-standing methods, approaches, and assumptions embedded in sonic…
Sociology (6 works) · Acoustics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Soundscape (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Active listening (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)