In the Midst of Echoes: Essays on the Turbulences of Listening

High Pitch Magazine’s second digital issue turns to environmental sound as a space where sonic ecologies intersect with power, technology, and cultural inscription.

"In many respects, listening is the possibility of sharing sensory world. To hear another—or, if possible, to hear as another—is to already feel the turbulence of another version of world meeting ours. Sometimes harmonious, other times incommensurate. Whatever method one uses to attend to these gaps and incongruencies, we are ushered by sound, and listening, as a lure. What, then, composes this “elemental lure” of sound material? How does sound (listening, sounding) beckon us towards a grounded politics of more-than-acoustic livelihoods?

One way to think through this—in the terminology of many of the entries in this issue—is that the potential for listening-with and hearing otherwise is coupled with an understanding of sound’s manifold and deep entwinement with environment." — Samuel Hertz, editor

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