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An Interview with Patricia Cowings
"An Interview with Patricia Cowings" treats sound as force, showing how vibration, sonic fiction, or acoustic design reorganize affective and political space.
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Core idea
These texts argue that sound is not mere accompaniment to culture. Vibration, bass, and auditory design act directly on bodies, spaces, and publics, making sonic theory a theory of force.
They work by turning acoustics into logistics, atmosphere into pressure, and listening into environmental relation. Sonic fiction and sonic warfare describe how sound reorganizes situations before it is interpreted.
That matters because the section is trying to surface the archive's strongest account of affective mediation. Audio culture becomes a way of thinking force, mood, and coordination together.
How to read this text
Read for how the page moves from music or noise toward vibration, pressure, or environmental effect.
Keep an eye on where listening becomes spatial or political. Those moments usually carry the page's strongest claims.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 3
AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICIA COWINGS years that they had a big problem with space motion-sickness, and nothing worked. So they said "let's try anything-acupuncture, whatever." So that's how I got my foot in the door. RE: And were you the one who suggested biofeedback?
Definition · paragraph 2
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Definition · paragraph 2
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Definition · paragraph 4
AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICIA COWINGS already happened. That's what people see as the subjective evidence of the effect. But what is the effect?
Definition · paragraph 3
AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICIA COWINGS years that they had a big problem with space motion-sickness, and nothing worked.
Appears in sections
Sonic Futures and Audio Theory Primary section
Jungle, Hyperdub, sonic warfare, and the sound-centered pathways into the archive's theory culture.