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I’m happy to announce that my new (e-)book “Engaging with Everyday Sounds” is now freely available. Please go to https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0288 to download the book in various formats.

‘Engaging With Everyday Sounds’ explores the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. I intertwine sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we should attend.

Exploring the intellectual history of sound studies as well as local, global, and temporal sonic geographies, I weave audio files, images, and journal excerpts into this work to create a multimodal monograph that explores the relationships of humans, nonhumans, and their environments through sound. The book contains an interdisciplinary collection of short essays, which might be valuable reading for both academics and the general reader interested in sound studies, sound art, philosophy, or the sociology of everyday life—and for anyone keen to think about the sonic in new and engaging ways.

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Delivered by DHL on November 25, 2020 at 10:27 – the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies. 52 contributions and over 850 pages on methods how to study sound as well as how through sound and listening (new) knowledge can be gained. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, biologists, (sound) artists, scholars from the medical world, from urban planning, from psychology, etc. etc. All this introduced and edited by my dear friend Michael Bull and myself.