Abstract

Urban soundscape installations applying ecosophical approaches challenge homogeneity by creating diverse acoustic ecologies, where acoustic ecologies are understood as the subjective experiences of listeners immersed in variable sound environments. In environmental ecology homogeneity threatens diversity through the spread of destructive agents ; similarly, homogenising agents in urban soundscapes threaten the diversity of social ecologies and mental ecologies. This paper describes two public soundscape installations that challenge homogenisation by creating multiplicities of acoustic ecologies through transformations of everyday sounds for the diversification of social ecologies and mental ecologies.