Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories positions listening as a political and spatial practice, drawing on essays, fiction, and situated case studies to reframe sound as a primary tool for understanding built and natural environments.
About This Book
In a culture saturated by images, the act of listening is a counter-practice — one that restores attention to the unseen dynamics of space, ecology, and more-than-human agency. Ecotones assembles a cross-disciplinary collection of texts that approach territories through sonic endeavour, treating sound not as atmosphere but as medium, instrument, and political position. Drawing from geography, architecture, ecology, and the arts, the book moves between scholarly essays, fiction, and fieldwork-grounded case studies. For architects, urbanists, and researchers working at the intersection of spatial practice and sensory experience, it opens territory that image-based analysis cannot reach.
Key Features
- 240 pages of interdisciplinary essays, fiction pieces, and situated case studies on sound and territorial studies
- Edited by Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau, and Peter Szendy
- Published by Spector Books
What You'll Discover
- How listening functions as a political tool for granting voice to more-than-human agencies within landscapes and built environments
- The concept of the ecotone — a threshold zone between ecosystems — as a framework for sonic and territorial investigation
- How fiction and situated case studies expand the methodological range of spatial and ecological research
- Why the dominance of visual culture in spatial disciplines forecloses certain kinds of environmental understanding, and what sonic practice recovers
About the Author
Ecotones is edited by Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau, and Peter Szendy. The volume brings together contributors from various disciplines and practices united by an investment in exploring spaces, territories, and ecologies through sound.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- Dimensions: 14 x 20.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959058933
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, urbanists, landscape researchers, sound artists, and spatial practitioners interested in sensory approaches to territory and ecology.