Sound has received much attention from human geographers in recent years. This article opens a debate around the growing body of work on sound as a research method. Sonic methods have largely emerged as part of the so-called affective turn in geography, as efforts to attend to the performative, emotional, and prereflective aspects of experience. Drawing on the work of Adorno, I develop a critique of existing sonic methods, arguing that their focus on affect and immediate experience is unable to grasp “negative geographies”: what and who fails to appear and remains silent to the researcher. These claims are grounded in two autoethnographic accounts of my own experiments with sonic methods. The first is a geographic information systems study of noise-monitoring data in King County, Washington. The second is a participatory mapping project that sought to record and collect “sound diaries” from migrants and refugees across the greater Seattle area. In both cases, I show how silences and failures in the research process make sonic methods useful tools for social critique. Key Words: Adorno, method, negativity, Seattle, sound.

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负面研究：地理学中的声波方法及其局限性

近年来，声音受到人文地理学家的广泛关注。本文围绕越来越多的将声音作为研究方法的工作展开辩论。声波方法在很大程度上是作为所谓的地理学情感转向的一部分出现的，努力关注体验的表演性、情感性和前反思性方面。借鉴阿多诺的工作，我对现有的声音方法进行了批判，认为他们对情感和直接体验的关注无法掌握“负面地理”：什么和谁没有出现，对研究人员保持沉默。这些主张是基于我自己的声波方法实验的两个自我民族志描述。第一个是华盛顿金县噪声监测数据的地理信息系统研究。第二个是参与式绘图项目，旨在记录和收集来自大西雅图地区的移民和难民的“声音日记”。在这两种情况下，我都展示了研究过程中的沉默和失败如何使声音方法成为社会批判的有用工具。关键词：阿多诺，方法，否定性，西雅图，声音。