The space between: a cartographic experiment 174 Merijn Royaardsĥ The Politics of Noise Machines over the garden: flight paths and the suburban pastoral 186 Michael Flitnerīad vibrations: infrasound, sonic hauntings, and imperceptible politics 193 Kelly Ladd Stereo city: mobile listening in the 1980s 156 Heike WeberĪcoustic mapping: notes from the interface 164 Gascia Ouzounian Singing the praises of power 131 Bob WhiteĤ Acoustic Ecologies Cinemas’ sonic residues 138 Stephen BarberĪcoustic ecology: Hans Scharoun and modernist experimentation in West Berlin 145 Sandra Jasper Music as bricolage in post-socialist Dar es Salaam 124 Maria Suriano

Helsinki seen through the lenses of the Kaurismäki brothers 74 Tony Mitchellĭancing outside the city: factions of bodies in Goa 108 Arun SaldanhaĮncountering rokesheni masculinities: music and lyrics in informal urban public transport vehicles in Zimbabwe 114 Rekopantswe Mate Recording the city: Berlin, London, Naples 55 BJ Nilsenģ Sound Cultures Of longitude, latitude, and zenith: Los Angeles, Van Halen and the aesthetics of “backyardism” 68 John Scanlan Sonic ecology: the undetectable sounds of the city 49 Kate Jones Ballard’s “The Sound-Sweep” 33 Matthew GandyĢ Acoustic Flânerie Silent city: listening to birds in urban nature 42 Joeri Bruyninckx Strange accumulations: soundscapes of late modernity in J. Soft coercion, the city, and the recorded female voice 23 Nina PowerĪ beautiful noise emerging from the apparatus of an obstacle: trains and the sounds of the Japanese city 27 David Novak

Preface Acoustic terrains: an introduction 7 Matthew Gandyġ Urban Soundscapes Rustications: animals in the urban mix 16 Steven Connor

The Acoustic City Matthew Gandy, BJ Nilsen

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