RESPONSE: LISTENING TO NEW VOICES: SILENCE, REPAIR, HYBRIDITY

Abstract

ABSTRACT In our response piece we are both listening to and exploring the new scholarship included in the special issue "Listening in Unusual Ways in Unusual Spaces: Ethics, Listening and Place." In doing so, we trace three themes within the issue, as well as offering observations from our own listening context. The themes we identify are the possible harm of "applying silence" to listeners, the restorative quality of story spaces, and the hybridity of sound spaces.