B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication

Adapting to non-human listening agencies




AuthorsKytö, Meri

EditorsN/A

Conference nameInterNoise

PublisherInstitute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE)

Publication year2024

JournalNOISE-CON Proceedings

Book title INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings

Journal name in sourceINTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings

Volume270

First page 5012

Last page5016

ISSN0736-2935

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3397/IN_2024_3536

Web address https://doi.org/10.3397/IN_2024_3536


Abstract

One central concept in soundscape studies has been that of an acoustic community, i.e. a group of people sharing an understanding of a listened environment, either acoustic or mediated. This understanding manifests in recognition of sound sources, their communicative function and their discoursive use in everyday life. The growing use of hearing aids, noise-cancelling headphones and other intelligent listening technology renders the soundscape more individual and at the same time introduces a non-human listening agency as a mediator to the individually calibrated soundscape. This raises conceptual and methodological questions of listening abilities in general and of how the listening experience is to be understood as taking place in a shared environment. To illuminate this problematic the paper will present as a case how listening through cochlear implants and their sound prosessors can be understood as a process of adaptation to a mediated acoustic community.



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