Polyphonic Squares: sound and popular music as communication technology in the urban space

The article by UFMG researchers Luiz Henrique Assis Garcia and Pedro Silva Marra attempts to understand how, through the use of sound and popular music, town folk delineate different practices to share, dispute and divide space in two public squares in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte. In order to do that, they play with audio intensity, frequency and spaceality, generating different musical repertoires. Taking the sound landscape as a methodology that allows access to sound and the musical practice located in the space on its own materiality, this study analyses texts, images and sounds to demonstrate how people shape sound frontiers and landscapes - mobile e transitory, but recurrent  - “DJing” a place's sonority via communication technologies. Read the full article in the link below: 

https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/revistafamecos/article/view/21533/13672