contact: carla.maier AT hu-berlin.de
Carla works at the intersection of sound studies, cultural anthropology and postcolonial studies with a focus on sound and listening, multimodal anthropology and methods of walking, listening and storytelling in the context of memory and decolonial spatial practices.
She is the author of Transcultural Sound Practices: British Asian Dance Music as Cultural Transformation (2020) based on extensive fieldwork in London, which investigates sound as part of a wider assemblage of cultural technologies, politics and practices.
Her recent work deals with listening and the entangled multi-sensorial, anti-colonial, and multi-species dimensions of contemporary social and environmental issues, which she develops in collaborative contexts such as the Amo Collective based at the Institute of European Ethnology (HU Berlin) and the collective Planetary Listening.
She produces audio papers, sound walks, and audio walks as part of her research.
She is part of the editorial team of Norient Books, which publishes in on music, sound, and noise at the intersection of art, academia and multimodal formats.
Carla is interested in multimodality as a multi-sensory practice of thinking with sound, with images, and with text, and how these modalities become analytical tools to explore the dynamics of complex social, historical or transcultural contexts.