During the great 2012 student demonstrations in a period of public and political controversies in Quebec, organized banging on “pots and pans” in Montreal was key in the ensuing political turnover, referring to historic and new traditions of public moral protest. The author gives an earwitness account of the quarrelsome voices and opinions of Montrealers before the widespread introduction of “pots and pans”, and describes his complex and evolving personal experience, from a perception of acoustic space disruption to participation in social harmony, with a central role of personal “sound romance”. Question are posed about the role of sound in appropriate weighing of pressure in contemporary systems, multi-level historical references of “pots and pans”, and value difference between political, interpersonal, and personal experience. The closing reflection points out a conceptual series from “loud” and “quiet” to “kitchen” and personal revolution.
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