Resonant fabrics: sonic sensations and socialization

Guest of this episode of FEMPOEM is sociologist, sound expert and
writer Marvin Alexander Heine. He just recently finished his
unpublished book "resonant fabrics: listening to the reciprocal
relationships between aural architectures, sonic sensations and
processes of socialization".


In the first part he reads the subchapter "Sonic Assemblages and
the City"- after that he is in dialog with Romina Achatz- about
our often forgotten sense of acoustic perception, of listening,
of sound.


We constantly produce sound and our physical reality is deeply
affected by sound in the present moment. How can we cultivate or
train the skill of acoustic perception? Marvin explains the term
"Palimset: The Contemporary city's Intersecting Sonic Layers",
talks about natural soundscapes, the phenomenology of the
senses, the institutionalisation of senses in organizational
cultures, of the role of sounds for our mental health, about
bird songs in Spaceships ecc. Furthermore, he reads a chapter
about silence during the Lockdowns in times of Covid 19- and
talks about silencing as a political strategy. Can silence be a
medicine and poison at the same time? Is there a way out of the
hegemony of vision?