Journal of Sonic Studies 26

We are happy to present to you JSS26, a special issue with six contributions that offer the essential work and approaches of, or issues that are near and dear to, the ten authors who have submitted their papers to us outside of a thematic call. In celebration of the diversity of such a non-themed issue, we give you an overview of the themes presented in the following brief descriptions:

• The concept of imaginary media is thought through by Andreas Helles Pedersen, using the case study of DR DJ, an unapproved proposal for music discovery that – it is proposed – has expanded the historical imagination of the digital music platform /Diskoteket.
• The noise trio SHLUK – Sara Pinheiro, Jiří Rouš and Petr Zábrodský – take us on a journey investigating the relationship between noise and pollution, a journey in which the sounds of “noisy” and “quiet” places in Prague intertwine with theory and lead to the performance Hladiny.
• Patryk Wasiak opens our ears to a fascinating time in state socialist Poland of the 1970s, with a listen into audiophilic discourse at the time and how that was part of a boom of High-Fidelity audio electronics manufacturing and nationwide modernization.
• Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Anette Vandsø, and Morten Breinbjerg turn toward sensory citizenship in Denmark during the complete lockdown of March 2020, explicitly exploring how the attuning approach of sonic citizenship might add to the framework for soundscape research.
• Henrik Frisk takes his long-time work with “creative” machines, developed in the artistic research project Goodbye Intuition, and addresses the questions this research has brought up through the practice of intuition – in the sense that Henri Bergson employs the word – explored as a possible method.
• Franziska Schroeder’s audio paper takes us on a mediated, improvisatory, multi-sensory walk through the streets of Hanoi, intertwined with sound memories and reflections upon her ongoing engagement with Vietnam and her collaborations with local artists, citizens, and researchers.

Special thanks to all the authors who have contributed to this issue, and to all of you who are listening with us.