SONCITIES postdoctoral fellow Dr Ruth Bernatek presents her current research on Urban Sonic Architecture, for Oxford Faculty of Music’s Graduate Colloquium.

This talk will address both the existence and the possibilities of an urban sonic architecture. I will introduce works, objects, and actions that are formed or performed at an architectural scale, and which engage materially or conceptually with the urban through sound.  For example, works that foreground auditory experiences of the city, works that employ sonic processes to confront problems about how we might know and engage with the urban, and works that are propositional in nature, and which suggest new ways of spatialising the city through sonic or audible transactions. Finally, whilst attempting to define what urban sonic architecture is, I propose of what urban sonic architecture might potentially be – how it can operate as a counter practice, or counter narrative within the city. 

Free to attend, register here.