Sound: :Gender: :Feminism: :Activism 2016
White Noise
CRiSAP
London College of Communication,
Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB
11 & 12 November 2016, 10am – 6pm
At SGFA::2016 we will seek to listen together to the complex interplay between the auditory and social protocols of White Noise. Working out from white noise’s original sonic conception of a random frequency, broad-based signal that seemingly masks everything else, white noise is, increasingly, all around us. As Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman explains, white noise has become a “sonic protocol,” a sociocultural norm transmitted as an often sub-audible yet ubiquitous frequency, establishing and maintaining perceptual limits of what and who can be heard.