Ecotones
Investigating Sounds and Territories
Valentin Bansac/Mike Fritsch/Alice Loumeau/Peter Szendy

In our image-saturated contemporary society, sight often eclipses other senses that are vital to understanding the unseen dynamics of our sensory relationship with environments. As a counter-project to the hegemony of images, the act of listening opens up new possibilities for exploring both built and natural environments and moving our attention to granting a voice to more-than-human agencies.

Ecotones showcases investigations on the relevance of sound in territorial studies. It is developed as a curated collection of texts from various disciplines and practitioners exploring spaces, territories, and ecologies through sonic endeavors. With a variety of formats, from essays and fiction pieces to situated case studies, Ecotones narrates sound as a medium, the act of listening as a political tool, and sonic experiments.

Valentin Bansac is a French researcher and photographer teaching at EPFL in Lausanne. Mike Fritsch is a Luxembourgish architect and urbanist working between France and Luxembourg. Alice Loumeau is a French/Canadian architect and cartographer and a former resident at Villa Albertine. Peter Szendy is a French philosopher and musicologist and a professor at Brown University.