ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the example of a bus station, considering it as a relatively autonomous milieu. It describes the example of the Saktan Tampuran Bus Stand located to the north of Trichur, a city of the southern Indian state of Kerala. The chapter considers the bus station as a site for what is commonly referred to as everyday public interactions, which involves different procedures for sound perception as well as singular ways to divide space. There is no coordinated and global logic of the sound space but rather different listening scales that are mainly organized around the ticket collectors. The sound installation requires sustained efforts on the part of the lottery salesman. In the sound environment that is so distinctively unique in density, the acoustic events are organized at different scales, while relying on auditive acuity serving economic stakes and allowing efficient management of the crowd on a daily basis.
