Examines spatial listening's perceptual and sociopolitical dimensions, proposing new listening models for modern environments.
This paper explores spatial listening as a multidimen- sional practice linking perception, phenomenology, and sociopolitical discourse. It outlines psychoacoustic foun- dations of sound localization and traces key listening theories—from reduced listening and acoustic ecology to spectromorphology and spatial dramaturgy—framing listening as an active, interpretive process. It then exam- ines phenomenological, participative, and political as- pects, proposing spatial listening as an embodied, situat- ed, and relational practice, and calls for expanded listen- ing models suited to contemporary sonic environments.
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