Marina Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5206-5162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Noisy Listening: Climate Change as Vibratory Milieu
“Noisy listening” explores resonances between sound and climate change by listening to and thinking with noise, being in noise as conditions shift more or less dramatically, taking form and becoming palpable or legible, or remaining indeterminate. Noise as a way of knowing is at once phenomenal and epistemological, its materio-semiotic status providing an opening for conceptualizing climate change as a vibratory milieu. I develop a reading of the…
Chapter 8 Ethnographies
Cloud seeding Los Angeles: Elements of an Unsettled City
In February of 1978, heavy rain brought major flooding to the Los Angeles region. Attention quickly turned to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, which had activated its cloud seeding program just prior to the storm. This event provides a focal point for examining ways in which the physicality of clouds informs an elemental approach to urbanism that is at once epistemological and material. Suspended vapor or ice crystals that might pre…
Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader
Performing L.A.
“Code of the Streets,” the fourth song in Gang Starr Remix , starts with the strings. The violins play sustained half-note chords that descend by half-steps. The cellos play a part that is a combination of the drum beat and the bass line of the original. The physicality of playing an acoustic instrument and the musical technology remain intertwined through processes of learning and performing the parts. The drummer, who also started at the top, b…
Introducing How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community, a Multimedia Project
How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community is a born-digital multimedia piece that lives on the Scalar platform and that was submitted and eventually accepted into the Special Section on Autoimmunities in the Wake of COVID-19. The text below is a close reproduction of the Navigation page within the Scalar piece. While reading this text, one cracks open the door to glimpse the ten-person collective behind this project. However, we…
Sky writing
A white line emerges in a blue expanse punctuated by clouds. We watch the streak of a vapor trail, a line-cloud becoming cloud-like as it disperses, spreading into something more amorphous but still vaguely recognizable as line. Tilted faces look upward, attuning toward the limitlessness of an atmosphere punctuated by lines of flight writing the Texas sky. A “head in the clouds” is atmospheric. Airy and light, or dark and stormy if thoughts wande…
Making clouds minor
Attuning toward clouds becomes a compositional encounter of thinking through form in this "hundreds" written for part of a special section honoring Kathleen Stewart
Atmosphere
Atmosphere encompasses the elemental and the affective. Its multifaceted quality has yielded a range of approaches, which take up different aspects of what atmosphere is and does. Anthropologists concerned with the subject of atmosphere attend to the ways in which that which is ephemeral becomes sensible, whether in terms of aerial infrastructures or a shared mood. Atmosphere is something good to think and work with, offering the possibility of a…
Moving Between
Helium's material form is unstable, moving from gas to liquid under temperature. Lighter than air, it evades the immediacy of perception. Thinking through helium offers an approach to the entanglement of forms of matter that makes movement the locus. Helium shifts an understanding of “between” to one of motion, of phase shifts and plasticity rather than difference, in which the durability of matter—and of the human—withdraws
Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art
Indefinite Urbanism: Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles
Indefinite urbanism" is the aerial drawn into perceptibility through noise, glass resonating with aircraft noise and infrastructural edge spaces that remain as traces of a history of now inaudible sound. As the age of commercial air travel dawned in Southern California, those living around Los Angeles International Airport turned toward the sky as the roar of jet planes disrupted an otherwise pacific coastal climate. Attending to the (im)material…
Sound and the public: Introduction to Special Issue
Between Matter and Method: Encounters In Anthropology and Art
Atmospheric Sensibilities
This article examines noise as composing an atmospheric that is at once sensed and made sensible. Itself atmospheric, environmental noise amplifies ways of thinking and sensing the atmospheric: as a logics of indeterminacy, as a physicality of the ephemeral, and as an entanglement of air-body-matter. Drawing principally on material related to the politics of noise around Los Angeles International Airport from the 1960s to the present, this articl…
Emergent Sound: Labor, Materiality, and Nonrepresentational Music
This article considers what it would mean to rethink music as emergent, to think of ephemerality in relation to potentiality. To think, that is, of the voice and the LP, musical instruments and tabletops as potential sound, available (and intended) for the production of sound, awaiting, in fact, to be sounded. It grounds this discussion in the multi-dimensional relationship between sound and labor, taking up sounds of work, the circulation of sou…
Sensory Attunements: Working with the Past in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds
This essay focuses on the qualities and textures of the present in a place long conditioned by decline. In the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, a microregion of Appalachian Ohio, a legacy of coal mining and its aftermath continues to reverberate into the present, shaping towns, lives, and imaginaries. The present figures as a moment of sensory attunement, orienting people toward one another and to the region's past even as they work toward anothe…
Energizing sound: Earth sound, earth signal: energies and earth magnitude in the arts, by Douglas Kahn
Earth Sound, Earth Signal (ESES) is a phenomenal book. This is meant in two ways. First, it reorients sound studies by attending to phenomena that have been marginalized within the discussion – the
Sound Work: Music as Labor and the 1940s Recording Bans of the American Federation of Musicians
Twice in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) banned recording by its members. According to the union, the use of records on radio and in jukeboxes was replacing live performers, thus eliminating work for musicians. In an era of shifting federal policies and changing modalities of labor, the bans put sound at the center of a struggle between labor and corporate interests. The bans provide a case through which to explore the signi…
Introduction: Audio Work: Labor, Value, and the Making of Musical Aesthetics: Introduction
This special issue on music, labor, and value comes out of ongoing conversations between the editors about the troubling relationship between ahistorical notions of aesthetics and scholarly analysis of performance and music.Broadly speaking, we are concerned with how to productively interpret music as a social practice.The theoretical intent of this volume is to link expressive practices to their contexts of production and circulation through met…
Global Downtowns
Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the most iconic space of modern urban imagery and identity. Essays bring diverse downtowns to life while probing deeper shared theoretical and pragmatic questions of power, division, consumption, and conflict
"World in a Weekend": Public Concerts and the Emergence of a Transnational Urban Space
"Celebrate the World… Celebrate L.A. !": Public Concerts and the Making of the Global City
Urban diversity is being newly imagined as some-thing helping to create a global city. Through their intentions and programming, public concert series help create global cities as they connect local urban public spaces with global circuits of people, ideas, music, and capital. Los Angeles' Grand Performances' claims for how ethnic diversity consti-tutes the city as global are reflected in particular through its programming of world music, used as…
Performing the “People's Palace”: Musical Performance and the Production of Space at the Chicago Cultural Center
This article examines the production of space through musical performance at the Chicago Cultural Center. Concerts at the Cultural Center produce space on the scale of the building, the city of Chicago, and the world. The process of the social production of space is examined through musical performance in terms of the relation between music and place, performance practices, and aural space. An analysis of the production of space in musical perfor…
Atmospheric Sensibilities
This article examines noise as composing an atmospheric that is at once sensed and made sensible. Itself atmospheric, environmental noise amplifies ways of thinking and sensing the atmospheric: as a logics of indeterminacy, as a physicality of the ephemeral, and as an entanglement of air-body-matter. Drawing principally on material related to the politics of noise around Los Angeles International Airport from the 1960s to the present, this articl…
Sensory Attunements: Working with the Past in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds
This essay focuses on the qualities and textures of the present in a place long conditioned by decline. In the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, a microregion of Appalachian Ohio, a legacy of coal mining and its aftermath continues to reverberate into the present, shaping towns, lives, and imaginaries. The present figures as a moment of sensory attunement, orienting people toward one another and to the region's past even as they work toward anothe…
Moving Between
Helium's material form is unstable, moving from gas to liquid under temperature. Lighter than air, it evades the immediacy of perception. Thinking through helium offers an approach to the entanglement of forms of matter that makes movement the locus. Helium shifts an understanding of “between” to one of motion, of phase shifts and plasticity rather than difference, in which the durability of matter—and of the human—withdraws
Emergent Sound: Labor, Materiality, and Nonrepresentational Music
This article considers what it would mean to rethink music as emergent, to think of ephemerality in relation to potentiality. To think, that is, of the voice and the LP, musical instruments and tabletops as potential sound, available (and intended) for the production of sound, awaiting, in fact, to be sounded. It grounds this discussion in the multi-dimensional relationship between sound and labor, taking up sounds of work, the circulation of sou…
Performing the “People's Palace”: Musical Performance and the Production of Space at the Chicago Cultural Center
This article examines the production of space through musical performance at the Chicago Cultural Center. Concerts at the Cultural Center produce space on the scale of the building, the city of Chicago, and the world. The process of the social production of space is examined through musical performance in terms of the relation between music and place, performance practices, and aural space. An analysis of the production of space in musical perfor…
"World in a Weekend": Public Concerts and the Emergence of a Transnational Urban Space
"Celebrate the World… Celebrate L.A. !": Public Concerts and the Making of the Global City
Urban diversity is being newly imagined as some-thing helping to create a global city. Through their intentions and programming, public concert series help create global cities as they connect local urban public spaces with global circuits of people, ideas, music, and capital. Los Angeles' Grand Performances' claims for how ethnic diversity consti-tutes the city as global are reflected in particular through its programming of world music, used as…
Introduction: Audio Work: Labor, Value, and the Making of Musical Aesthetics: Introduction
This special issue on music, labor, and value comes out of ongoing conversations between the editors about the troubling relationship between ahistorical notions of aesthetics and scholarly analysis of performance and music.Broadly speaking, we are concerned with how to productively interpret music as a social practice.The theoretical intent of this volume is to link expressive practices to their contexts of production and circulation through met…
Global Downtowns
Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the most iconic space of modern urban imagery and identity. Essays bring diverse downtowns to life while probing deeper shared theoretical and pragmatic questions of power, division, consumption, and conflict
Sound Work: Music as Labor and the 1940s Recording Bans of the American Federation of Musicians
Twice in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) banned recording by its members. According to the union, the use of records on radio and in jukeboxes was replacing live performers, thus eliminating work for musicians. In an era of shifting federal policies and changing modalities of labor, the bans put sound at the center of a struggle between labor and corporate interests. The bans provide a case through which to explore the signi…
Energizing sound: Earth sound, earth signal: energies and earth magnitude in the arts, by Douglas Kahn
Earth Sound, Earth Signal (ESES) is a phenomenal book. This is meant in two ways. First, it reorients sound studies by attending to phenomena that have been marginalized within the discussion – the
Emergent Sound: Labor, Materiality, and Nonrepresentational Music
This article considers what it would mean to rethink music as emergent, to think of ephemerality in relation to potentiality. To think, that is, of the voice and the LP, musical instruments and tabletops as potential sound, available (and intended) for the production of sound, awaiting, in fact, to be sounded. It grounds this discussion in the multi-dimensional relationship between sound and labor, taking up sounds of work, the circulation of sou…
Sensory Attunements: Working with the Past in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds
This essay focuses on the qualities and textures of the present in a place long conditioned by decline. In the Little Cities of Black Diamonds, a microregion of Appalachian Ohio, a legacy of coal mining and its aftermath continues to reverberate into the present, shaping towns, lives, and imaginaries. The present figures as a moment of sensory attunement, orienting people toward one another and to the region's past even as they work toward anothe…
Sound and the public: Introduction to Special Issue
Between Matter and Method: Encounters In Anthropology and Art
Atmospheric Sensibilities
This article examines noise as composing an atmospheric that is at once sensed and made sensible. Itself atmospheric, environmental noise amplifies ways of thinking and sensing the atmospheric: as a logics of indeterminacy, as a physicality of the ephemeral, and as an entanglement of air-body-matter. Drawing principally on material related to the politics of noise around Los Angeles International Airport from the 1960s to the present, this articl…
Indefinite Urbanism: Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles
Indefinite urbanism" is the aerial drawn into perceptibility through noise, glass resonating with aircraft noise and infrastructural edge spaces that remain as traces of a history of now inaudible sound. As the age of commercial air travel dawned in Southern California, those living around Los Angeles International Airport turned toward the sky as the roar of jet planes disrupted an otherwise pacific coastal climate. Attending to the (im)material…
Between Matter and Method: Encounters in Anthropology and Art
Atmosphere
Atmosphere encompasses the elemental and the affective. Its multifaceted quality has yielded a range of approaches, which take up different aspects of what atmosphere is and does. Anthropologists concerned with the subject of atmosphere attend to the ways in which that which is ephemeral becomes sensible, whether in terms of aerial infrastructures or a shared mood. Atmosphere is something good to think and work with, offering the possibility of a…
Moving Between
Helium's material form is unstable, moving from gas to liquid under temperature. Lighter than air, it evades the immediacy of perception. Thinking through helium offers an approach to the entanglement of forms of matter that makes movement the locus. Helium shifts an understanding of “between” to one of motion, of phase shifts and plasticity rather than difference, in which the durability of matter—and of the human—withdraws
Sky writing
A white line emerges in a blue expanse punctuated by clouds. We watch the streak of a vapor trail, a line-cloud becoming cloud-like as it disperses, spreading into something more amorphous but still vaguely recognizable as line. Tilted faces look upward, attuning toward the limitlessness of an atmosphere punctuated by lines of flight writing the Texas sky. A “head in the clouds” is atmospheric. Airy and light, or dark and stormy if thoughts wande…
Making clouds minor
Attuning toward clouds becomes a compositional encounter of thinking through form in this "hundreds" written for part of a special section honoring Kathleen Stewart
Anthropology of the Arts: A Reader
Performing L.A.
“Code of the Streets,” the fourth song in Gang Starr Remix , starts with the strings. The violins play sustained half-note chords that descend by half-steps. The cellos play a part that is a combination of the drum beat and the bass line of the original. The physicality of playing an acoustic instrument and the musical technology remain intertwined through processes of learning and performing the parts. The drummer, who also started at the top, b…
Introducing How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community, a Multimedia Project
How We Make It: Disability Justice, Autoimmunity, Community is a born-digital multimedia piece that lives on the Scalar platform and that was submitted and eventually accepted into the Special Section on Autoimmunities in the Wake of COVID-19. The text below is a close reproduction of the Navigation page within the Scalar piece. While reading this text, one cracks open the door to glimpse the ten-person collective behind this project. However, we…
Chapter 8 Ethnographies
Cloud seeding Los Angeles: Elements of an Unsettled City
In February of 1978, heavy rain brought major flooding to the Los Angeles region. Attention quickly turned to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, which had activated its cloud seeding program just prior to the storm. This event provides a focal point for examining ways in which the physicality of clouds informs an elemental approach to urbanism that is at once epistemological and material. Suspended vapor or ice crystals that might pre…
Noisy Listening: Climate Change as Vibratory Milieu
“Noisy listening” explores resonances between sound and climate change by listening to and thinking with noise, being in noise as conditions shift more or less dramatically, taking form and becoming palpable or legible, or remaining indeterminate. Noise as a way of knowing is at once phenomenal and epistemological, its materio-semiotic status providing an opening for conceptualizing climate change as a vibratory milieu. I develop a reading of the…
Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Music History and Culture (8 works) · Acoustics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works)