Ecotones: Investigating Sounds and Territories

Join us for the book launch of Ecotones

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 endeavours. 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.

With contributions by David George Haskell, Tim Ingold, Shannon Mattern, Emma McCormick Goodhart, Soline Nivet and Ariane Wilson, Cole Swensen, among others.

Valentin Bansac is a French researcher and photographer who taught 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.

We are delighted to welcome Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch, Alice Loumeau and their guests to the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of their new publication. The book will be available at a special launch price of £20 (RRP £22).

This book has been developed as part of the Luxembourg Pavilion Sonic Investigations at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
This event is organized with the kind support of the Embassy of Luxembourg in London.