Popping Up: The Continual Return of Sound and Listening
Karin Bijsterveld · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2018
This chapter aims to explain why practices of listening continue to “pop up” as routes into knowledge-making despite the dominance of visualization in the sciences. It identifies three recent trends behind this phenomenon: the rise and versatility of digital technologies, the significance of somatic vigilance and synchronization in today’s large instrument-based laboratories, and the role of the auditory sublime in the public fascination with sonification.