Establishment listening, sonic idiosyncrasies, and Beethoven disrupted

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to bonn hoeren participants for the event itself, friends for advice and Zeynep Bulut for critique and feedback. That said, any errors are entirely my own.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. Talks Documentation of performances and talks in English and German translation are available online through https://www.bonnhoeren.de/2020-2/symposium-listening-hearing/. The project is realised through the Beethovenstiftung of Bonn and directed by Carsten Seiffarth. Additional information about the project and past City Sound Artists can be found through the bonn hoeren site,

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Elen Flügge

Elen Flügge explores personal and urban sound spaces, through ethnographic and artistic approaches. She recently completed a doctoral thesis investigating inhabitants’ experience of Belfast’s sonic domain, based at SARC as part of the Recomposing the City research group. Her research uses conversational soundwalks to investigate listening practices and interventions for city space. She writes about sound studies and sonic arts and holds an MA in Sound Studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and an undergraduate degree from Bard College, NY.