Tirsdag 22. september vil Notam være vertskap for et foredrag av Gascia Ouzounian. Foredraget er basert på Ouzounian sin kommende bokutgivelse The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare.
Gascia Ouzounian er filosof og lydkunstner hvis arbeid utforsker lyd, rom, urbanisme og vold. Ouzounian er forfatter av Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts og The Trembling City, som undersøker urbane landskap gjennom lyd og vibrasjon, særlig i henhold til omgivelser preget av krig, folkemord og massevold. Ouzounian er førsteamanuensis i musikk ved Universitetet i Oxford, hvor hun leder Sonorous Cities, et forskningsprosjekt som utforsker eksperimentelle tilnærminger til sonisk analyse og lyddesign innen arkitektur og urban praksis.
Expanded Frames for Sonic Investigation
This talk explores expanded frames for sonic investigation through the lens of genocide and its aftermath, building on the sonic investigation agency Earshot’s claim that sound and listening can reveal forms of violence that exceed dominant visual paradigms of evidence. Drawing on earwitness testimonies of Armenian genocide survivors, alongside sonic and atmospheric approaches to contemporary conflict, I examine a set of concepts for investigating violence through sound: sonic memory, sonic residue, aftersound, and sonic weather. I consider testimonies that describe sounds that remain «in the ears» days or even decades later – embodied traces of mass violence that persist beyond the moment of killing. I also address less visible modes of violence, including atmospheric occupation and vibrational warfare, in which air and built environments are weaponized through pressure, turbulence, and chronic sonic threat. Finally, I propose a negative acoustics attentive to absence, disappearance, and denial – treating what cannot be heard as a form of evidence. This talk stems from my forthcoming book The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare (MIT Press, 2026). Further information and pre-orders are available from MIT Press.
https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-gascia-ouzounian
https://ephemeral.observer/
