Stand in two neighbourhoods with identical zoning on paper and close your eyes: one hums with continuous traffic bleed and compressor noise, the other holds pockets of birdsong and human conversation at a legible volume. No map records this difference, yet it marks a territorial boundary as real as any property line — a boundary of who can hear whom, who is drowned out, whose space is acoustically buffered and whose is not. Soundscapes expose relations of territory that visual mapping, built for a silent bird's-eye view, structurally cannot register. AtmospherePosture, carried over from environmental psychology, applies with particular force to sound: the bodily stance provoked by an unwanted acoustic environment — tensed shoulders against a passing siren, a raised voice competing with traffic — registers a territorial claim being contested in real time, well before anyone files a noise complaint that a map could later plot.
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