Counterlistening the City:

GASCIA OUZOUNIAN IN CONVERSATION WITH KURALAI ABDUKHALIKOVA

This conversation is published in the exhibition catalogue for the 15TH GWANGJU BIENNALE, PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century. It covers a range of issues, from the sonic city as a site of social and political contests to the urban soundscape as a kind of production that people co-create versus a collection of sound objects; the 'ethnographic gaze' (or ear) as it emerges in soundscape traditions; Summaya Vally's idea of listening as architectural practice; how theorists including Allie Martin and Tripta Chandola have changed how we understand the sonic gentrification of cities; the politics of the noise complaint; sonic warfare in Gaza; sonic materialities; to the idea of cities as vibrational territories.