![]() Gobbledegook Theatre’s Ear Trumpet is a site-responsive outdoor theatre performance in which a team of sonic investigators have discovered pockets of sound, trapped in the Earth beneath our feet. The article concludes by suggesting that due to the amorphous characteristics of sound the soundscape designer is in a unique position to affect immediate socio-political and perceptual transformations of urban spaces. The four conceptual overlays provide socio-political and ecological understandings of space that contribute to a soundscape design practice, from which public soundscape installations are created to subvert controlling spatiotemporal rhythms of the urban for the emergence of new nature(s). ![]() The fourth conceptual overlay Disassembling the Collective Assemblage of Enunciation discusses Arendt's reflections on social rhythms subsuming society into automated behavior, and the challenges that can be presented to such automated behavior through the act of soundscape design. The third conceptual overlay Altered Soundscapes as Emergent Ecologies investigates Guattari's a-signifying rupture and the potential of soundscape design as rupture to affect the emergence of Lefebvre's new nature(s) in urban spaces. The second conceptual overlay The Isorhythimc Refrain convolves Deleuze and Guattari's refrain and Lefebvre's isorhythms into identifiable socially controlling rhythms that unfold as captured sonic and gestural forms throughout urban spaces. ![]() The first conceptual overlay Radiating Striations of Centralities, synthesizes spatial discussions of Deleuze and Guattari and Lefebvre into soundscape design approaches that simultaneously respond to centralized controls and the peripheries of urban spaces. The theory, which emerged from a transversal analysis of Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Hannah Arendt, particularly their philosophical investigations of space, rhythm and nature, is presented as four conceptual overlays to aid soundscape design practices in urban spaces. This paper describes theoretical developments that have emerged alongside the author's urban soundscape design practice.
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