This sound project is an exploration into how repetition desensitises,
how sound mediates violence and how the aesthetics of urgency have been absorbed into rituals of passive consumption. Rooted in sound ethnography, the work draws on studies of media semiotics, trauma, and propaganda. It references practices of culture jamming by manipulating a “breaking news” intro fragment to explore the normalisation of atrocity through media repetition, strategies of desensitisation through emotional fatigue, and the role of listening as a radical act of resistance.

 

Malagola, School of Vocal Arts and International Centre for Voice Studies - Sound Design within Performing Arts 2025

Mentors:
Scanner (Robin Rimbaud), Enrico Pitozzi, Ermanna Montanari, Marco Olivieri, Hubert Westkemper, Luigi Agostini