This dossier features materials that were generated at, or in the aftermath of, the “Experiments in Listening” conference that boundary 2 co-organized with the California Institute of the Arts and the University of Southern California in January 2025. The conference organizers–Arne De Boever, Kara Keeling, Erin Graff Zivin, and Michael Pisaro-Liu–are also preparing a special issue of the print journal boundary 2 that will feature additional materials from the event.
Table of Contents
- Reina Akkouche Halibi—Sonics of Silence: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Missing 19dB
- Notnef Greco—She Beat Them All
- Sean Koa Seu—In Defense of Tuning Out: The Captive Audience and Public Sound
- Inger Flem Soto—Lost Object
- Erin Graff Zivin—Experiments in Listening: The Shape of Deconstruction to Come
- Arne De Boever—The Author as Listener: On the Politics of Ben Lerner’s Transcription
- Nina Sun Eidsheim—Pussy Listening: Building an Activist Listening Practice