Culture, Communication and Media Research Seminar: Listening to the City through Sound Technology — A Practice-Based Approach Dr Marcel Zaes Sagesser (SUSTech School of Design, Shenzhen, China).
Sep 10, 2024
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Listening to the City through Sound Technology — A Practice-Based Approach
Dr Marcel Zaes Sagesser (SUSTech School of Design, Shenzhen, China)
What does a high-tech city like Shenzhen sound like? Electric cars next to fruit vendors’ megaphones, bluetooth speakers next to glass elevators with pop music broadcasts: contemporary urban spaces are increasingly characterized by assemblages of media that extend the built and natural worlds around us. Sonic technologies, sometimes thought of as an extension of the human, have become a constitutional element of the city, and a key part of our contemporary aural economies. They shape our perception; and thus, shape the city itself. This talk presents field recording, data analysis, creative (re-)interpretation and interdisciplinary perspectives as an approach to understanding the aural economy of Shenzhen. The speaker presents a few case studies in which creative media arts projects, informed by critical theory, produce opportunities to rethink the techno-social noise politics of a far-from-silent high-tech cityLocation MediaCityUK and online People Seamus Simpson
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