Is There Such a Thing as an “Atmospheric Turn”? Instead of an Introduction

The sonic framing of place: Microsociology, urban atmospheres and quiet hour shopping

“…True, atmosphere has become ‘an important asset for a city’ (Thibaud, 2015: 39) and become central to the workings of a city’s ‘branding portfolio’ (Löfgren, 2014: 255). But there is more to what has been described as the ‘atmospheric turn’ (Griffero, 2019) than simply making places attractive to tourists and residents (whom often differ, in any case, in their sensibilities and practices). Thibaud (2015: 43) reminds us that sensory and affective ‘resonance’ can lead to ‘both consonance and dissonance’ in how people relate to each other and to place.…”

Music Worlding in Palau

“…Meaningfulness, as I use it in this book, draws on neo-phenomenological accounts of diffuse significatory complexity. Neo-phenomenology, in the broader sense, and the theory of atmospheres, in particular, have grown into a burgeoning field in recent years across disciplines ranging from philosophy (Böhme 1993a(Böhme , 1993bHauskeller 1995;Griffero 2014Griffero , 2019a, cultural geography (e.g., Anderson 2009;Anderson and Ash 2015;Closs Stephens 2015;Edensor 2012;Kazig, Masson, and Thomas 2017), sociology (e.g., de la Fuente and Walsh 2020; Thibaud 2014Thibaud , 2015, anthropology Julmi 2017;Schroer andSchmitt 2018, Sumartojo andPink 2019), architectural studies Bille and Sørensen 2016;Tidwell 2014;Zumthor 2006) inter alia. The neo-phenomenology of atmospheres has also begun to inform music research (Abels , 2017(Abels , 2018bHerzfeld 2013;Riedel 2020aRiedel , 2020bRiedel and Torvinen 2020;Turner 2020;.…”

Rank atmospheres: The more‐than‐human scentspace and aesthetic of a pigdogging hunt

“…First, like the common phrase ‘something smells fishy’, smell expresses the intuitive feeling of pig presence without Ned being able to precisely define how he knows. The blackberry bushes were a visual cue, but his sense of pigs extended beyond this index, an undefined sensation of ‘something‐more’ (Grifferio, 2019). Second, smell is evocative of a thing's immediate presence as revealed through the surrounding air (Böhme, 2019), an enveloping sensation which strongly affects the individual, evoking feelings, embodied dispositions and relational possibilities in connection to a particular place (Stenslund, 2018).…”

“…The final section of this paper will look at how human, dog and pig move through and against each other, and how this entanglement generates and provokes a force of excitation, anticipation and tension that grips willing and unwilling participants. Both the interspecies interaction and developing atmosphere is ‘orchestrated (Bille, et al, 2015) in order produce an aesthetic experience of pigdogging, that is, a ‘sensorial and felt‐bodily perception’ of a particular space‐time (Grifferio, 2019, p. 1). It is through this atmosphere that pigdogging subjectivities are enacted.…”