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Congratulations to MFA Candidate Anne E. Stoner for the inclusion of her research article Drowning Out the Noise in the latest issue of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture - UW ART

Published quarterly online, Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture is an interdisciplinary, international peer-reviewed journal that features research and writing of scholars and artists working in fields typically considered to be the domain of sound art and sound studies. The journal’s purview investigates the research, theory, and praxis of sound from diverse cultural perspectives in the arts and sciences and encourages consideration of ethnicity, race, and gender within theoretical and/or artistic frameworks as they relate to sound. The journal also welcomes research and approaches that explore cultural boundaries and expand upon the concept of sound as a living, cultural force whose territories and impacts are still emerging.

Drowning Out the Noise: Private Listening, Public Spatialities, Queer Wellbeing by Stoner is presented as a report of an experiment in queer sonic ethnography, in the hope that it may further research into the public and private lives of queer individuals and provide a deeper insight into the street soundscape of the queer everyday. How does music listening in headphones function as an extension of the queer self in the public sphere? In what ways does this music support, exhibit, or conceal the presentation of gender and sexuality in these heteronormative publics? Awarded the 2022 Frederick Niecks Essay Prize and exhibited at Northwestern University in 2023, this project explores the extent to which this private listening adds to or alters the physical presentation of an individual and supports the action of existing queer in public spatialities, through the lens of Goffman’s “Territories of the Self (1971).”

Stoner is an interdisciplinary artist and social ethnographer focusing in sonic practice. Her work brings about and coalesces studies in bodily complexities and disability studies, human geographical theories and psychogeographies, contemporary methodologies in ethnographic archiving and queer anthropology, new possibilities within technology and studies within human movement and routine, to create a practice with an empathetic methodology that challenges visual standards within 21st century artmaking. Anne holds an undergraduate MA(h) from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art and an MA from Northwestern University. In 2023 she began working toward an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Drowning Out the Noise