Listening to the home: the sonic reconfigurations of spatial boundaries

This article is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration between two academic scholars and a sound artist. The project’s objective is to explore the interest of such collaboration for the performance of more critical, imaginative, and active research (Denzin 2001). This specific proposal is a conceptual investigation of the domestic space from a sonic perspective – a focus deriving from the group’s interest in the performativity of sound. In particular, we argue that adopting a sonic-spatial perspective enables us to see, hear, imagine and conceptualize the unstable, dynamic, and porous qualities of space (Thrift 2006). We discuss sonic spatialities in relation to the domestic space and its conceptualization in the cultural consumption literature