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"Offers new insights, tools, and methodologies for the design of urban environments in relationship to noise and sound"--
List of contents
List of illustrations Preface AcknowledgementsIntroductory remarks
Part 1 Synchronistic becomings
Part 2 Transformative mediums
Part 3 Translating ambiances
Conclusion: On the oneness of experience
References Index
About the author
Jordan Lacey
Summary
Urban Roar argues for the existence of ‘autonomous affectivities’ that roar beneath the din of the urban, seeking the attention of us humans so captured by the environments of our own making. In hearing the urban roar, it is the mythic intention of this book to discover ways in which we can work with the intensities of more-than-human forces to vitalize our cities. The book explores methods by which artists, particularly those sound artists involved in fieldwork practices, might encounter and translate autonomous affectivities between different environments. Of particular interest is Jung’s concept of synchronicity and its relationship to artistic creation – as experience, flow and catalyst – in manifesting autonomous affectivities into diverse and affective environments.
The book makes use of both theoretical and practical approaches: from a study of scholarship through which it is argued that an autonomous affectivity is equivalent to an archetype (via Jung) and an essence (via Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza), to theoretical considerations of the situated body in everyday contexts, to practical study of an artistic research experiment designed to reveal and index autonomous affectivities encountered during fieldwork practices, for the purpose of influencing urban design interventions. In this fresh analysis, Lacey reveals the possibilities in urban environments.
Foreword
Offers new insights, tools, and methodologies for the design of urban environments in relationship to noise and sound.
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In this inspired work, Lacey follows up on his book Sonic Rupture by making a powerful case for feeling and intuition in urban transformation. Fueled by passionate readings of the philosophy of Guattari and Jung (among other sources), and drawing on Indigenous practices and contemporary sound arts, Lacey helps give shape the recent upheaval of thought around the issue of ambiance, turning that upheaval into an applied research project meant to activate wild autonomous affectivities. This book is an essential text for the revitalization of sound studies, and offers a vivid challenge to artists, designers and planners.
