This document provides an outline for a presentation or paper focusing on sound in public spaces and headphone usage. It begins with introducing the topic and outlines the following structure: background and influences, key themes to be discussed, examples of interdisciplinary projects, and ideas for future research. The themes involve behavior, objects like headphones, language and systems of sound, and the reconfiguration of public and private spaces through personal audio devices. The document provides several quotes analyzing the social and aesthetic impacts of headphones and personal stereos.

2. who could resist the invitation of those dainty headphones?

3. today
1. aim
2. introduction
3. background: theory
: influences
: previous research
4. themes
5. methods and projects
6. conclusions/outcome
7. the future.

4. why sound in the public space?
why headphones?
docklands sound project
drink+think panel on sound in public space
ideas on measurement, public/private realm and
fashion.

6. previous research: the public space has a soundtrack now

9. photographer: sarah barber

10. photographer: effie merson

13. photographers:
billiejeanisnotmylover.com

14. photographers: billiejeanisnotmylover.com

15. “the technology of the radio and the headphones
enables users to prioritize their experience
socially”
personal stereos and the reconfiguration of representational space,
michael bull

16. “for someone listening to a complex sound
ambience, the synecdoche effect is the ability to
valorize one specific element through selection”
sonic experience, a guide to everyday sounds,
jean-françois augoyard & henry torgue

17. “Walkman users can aestheticize both the
mundane everyday of the city streets and the
faraway spaces they visit with their Walkman
sounds.”
sound, proximity and distance in western experience: the case of
odysseus’ walkman,
michael bull

18. “all music, however individual it may be in
stylistic terms, possesses an inalienable
collective substance: every sound says ‘we’ ”
sound figures, theodore adorno

19. key themes
1. behaviour
2. objects
3. language (code and system)
4. space

20. inter/cross/trans-disciplinary projects:
1. Not-listening Listening
2. Listening to the City
3. Emergency Dance Zone
4. Cone of Silence I: First Site
5. Cone of Silence II: Electrofringe

21. Not-listening Listening, West Space. August 14, 2009.

43. future research:
85 Decibels, Baby (LTC III)
headphones as adornment
acoustic privacy in the workplace
soundproofing the city
4’33” reprise