Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Michael Bull and Marcel Cobussen -- Section One: Disciplines, Methodologies, Epistemologies. Introduction to Section 1: Sonic Forms and the Temporalities of Silence / Michael Bull -- Sonic Methodologies in Anthropology / Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier -- Sonic Methodologies by Way of Deconstruction / Naomi Waltham-Smith -- Nature's Music: Sonic Methodologies in the Study of Environmental Biology / Wouter Halfwerk -- Hearing With: Researching the Histories of Sonic Encounter / James G. Mansell -- Sonic Methodologies in Urban Studies / Christabel Stirling -- Sound and Pedagogy: Taking Podcasting into the Classroom / Neil Verma -- Sonic Methodologies in Literature / Justin St. Clair -- Sonic Materialism and/as Method / Tyler Shoemaker -- Sonic Methodology In Philosophy / Elvira Di Bona -- Sonic Methodologies in Science and Technology Studies / Joeri Bruyninckx and Alexandra Supper -- The Sonic Environment in Urban Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management / A. Lex Brown -- Sonic Methodologies In Medicine / Jos J. Eggermont -- Soundscape as Methodology in Psycho-Acoustics and Noise Management / André Fiebig and Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp -- Sonic Methodologies of Sound / Salomé Voegelin -- Section Two: Sound Arts, Musics, Spaces. Introduction to Section II: Art – Research – Method / Marcel Cobussen -- Ambulatory Sound-making: Re-writing, Re-appropriating, “Presencing” Auditory Spaces / Elena Biserna -- Sound Installations for the Production of Atmosphere as a Limited Field of Sounds / Jordan Lacey -- Fragile Devices: Improvisation as an Interdisciplinary Research Methodology / Rebecca -- “The Music Comes from Me”: Sound as Auto-ethnography / Darla Crispin -- Sound Beyond Representation. Experimental Performance Practices in Music / Lucia D'Errico -- Performing Centrifugal Sound / G Douglas Barrett -- How to Cut Up a Record? / Paul Nataraj -- Directing Listening: Sound Design Methods from Film to Site-responsive Sonic Art / Ben Byrne -- Sound, Space, and Pneumatic Valves. Using Pneumatic Valves as Sound Sources to Create Spatial Environments / Edwin van der Heide -- The Overheard - An Attuning Approach to Sound Art and Design in Public Spaces / Marie Højlund, Jonas R. Kirkegaard, Michael Sonne Kristensen, Morten Riis -- Sound on Sound: Considerations for the Use of Sonic Methods in Ethnographic Fieldwork inside the Recording Studio / Paul Thompson -- Ecological Sound Art / Jonathan Gilmurray -- Hydrophonic Fields / Jana Winderen, Sound Artist, interviewed by Stefan Helmreich -- Melt Me Into the Ocean: Sounds from Submarine Spaces / Yolande Harris -- Attentive Listening in Lo-fi Soundscapes: Some Notes on the Development of Sound Art Methodologies in Vietnam / Stefan Östersjö and Nguyen Thanh Thuy -- Section Three: Geographies, Politics, Histories. Introduction to Section III: Listening as Method / Marcel Cobussen -- Auditory Diagramming: A Research/Design Practice / Alex Arteaga -- Close Listening: Approaches to Research on Colonial Sound Archives / Annette Hoffman -- Sonic Feminisms: Doing Gender in Neoliberal Times / Marie Thompson -- Sound as City Maker: Developing Participatory Collaborative Process to Work With Sound as an Urban Resource : The Case of Mr. Visserplein (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) / Edda Bild, Michiel Huijsman, Renate Zentschnig -- Dropping Down Low: Online Soundmaps, Critique, Genealogies, Alternatives / Angus Carlyle -- Listening as Methodological Tool: Sounding Soundwalking Methods / John L. Drever -- Sounding Wild Spaces: Inclusive Mapmaking Through Multispecies Listening Across Scales / Alice Eldridge, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Roger Norum -- The Emergence of Voices in an Indian Bus Stand: An Ethnographic and Acoustic Approach / Christine Guillebaud -- Historical Sounds: A Case Study / Aimee Boutin -- Sonic Writing / Holger Schulze -- Silence of Maua: An Atmospheric Ethnography of Urban Sounds / Jean-Paul Thibaud -- Sound Design Methodologies: Between Artistic Inspiration and Academic Perspiration / Nicolas Misdariis and Daniel Hug -- The Sounds of the 2001 Argentine Crises: Soundscapes of Protest, Music, and Sound Art / Violeta Nigro Giunta -- The Sound System of the State: Listening for Ideology in the Soundscape of Conflict / Tom Tlalim -- Sonifications Sometimes Behave So Strangely / Paul Vickers -- The Conflicting Sounds of Urban Regeneration in Liverpool / Jacqueline Waldock -- Ethnographies Sounded on What? Methodologies, Sounds, and Experience in Cairo / Vincent Battesti -- Podcase Preservation and the Noise of Saved Sounds / Jeremy Wade Morris -- The Earview as a Border Epistemology: An Analytical and Pedagogical Proposition for Design / Pedro J.S. Vieira de Oliveira -- Hacking Composition: Dialogues with Musical Machines / Ezra J. Teboul

"The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken both by those who specialize in sound and by others who wish to include sound as an intrinsic and indispensable element in their research. This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. It brings together 49 specially commissioned chapters that ask a wide range of questions including; how can sound be used in current academic disciplines? Is sound as a methodological tool indispensable for Sound Studies and what can sound artists contribute to the discourse on methodology in Sound Studies? The editors also present 3 original chapters that work as provocative 'sonic methodological interventions' prefacing the 3 sections of the book."-- provided by publisher