EVENTAL AESTHETICS: SOUND ART AND ENVIRONMENT
Gascia Ouzounian

A special issue of Evental Aesthetics, a journal of art and philosophy, on the theme ‘Sound Art and Environment’. Guest edited by Gascia Ouzounian.

Over the last fifty years sound artists have undeniably turned their attention — and ours — to place and environment as rich sources of artistic inspiration and acoustic fascination. For this special issue of Evental Aesthetics then, a journal that invites philosophical and critical perspectives on art and aesthetic experience, we ask how environmental sound art in its myriad and evolving forms can bring new insights to philosophical discourses and how philosophies of place and environment might influence how we make and think about sound art. Or, as Ouzounian propose to do in her introduction, ‘Rethinking Acoustic Ecology’, we might consider the ways in which sound art works themselves embody and enact philosophies of place and what can we learn by attending to these philosophies wrought at the intersection of site and sound.