AuralDiversities:
An interdisciplinary programme addressing the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in Arts and Humanities research and theory, questioning how and what we hear, what we listen to and why, as situated within our contemporary milieu and its associated crises.
These multimodal sessions trouble accepted norms in audio technology, sound culture and Western epistemologies and question the extent of human perception, our relation in and through the vibratory world, and whether hearing and listening is ever an individual act.
Confluence Sessions:
As we enter the UN decade of ecosystem restoration we consider what role listening can play in shaping and serving conservation agendas. Traditional and Indigenous knowledges have successfully preserved and restored biodiversity across the globe for millennia, yet the future, apparently, is digital; how can these different forms of listening and knowing respond to and complement each other?
Session Two: Future Acoustemologies
Streamboxes for Acoustic Commoning
Dawn Scarfe, Grant Smith and Mort Drew
Date: Friday 24 February 2023 Time: 9:45am – 5pm (GMT).
In this in-person session, Soundcamp will introduce their Acoustic Commons project and give a hands-on introduction to hardware and software techniques necessary to create your own affordable audio live streaming equipment.
Kits will be shared and made collaboratively by attendees.
NB. There will be an opportunity for a number of attendees to set up their own live streams with the equipment after the event
Schedule (GMT):
09:45am Workshop participants arrive (in-person)
10:00am Acoustic Commons talk (online)
11:00am Stream box workshop session1: introduction and assembly
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Deploy in provisional locations off-grid
Tweaking, testing, listening and discussion
5:00pm Finish
Biographies:
The Acoustic Commons network has been using live audio streaming to co-create public art projects that form bridges between localities and bring isolated communities into interaction. Listening in common to soundworlds of Europe, Japan and other places leads us to engage with environmental flows - of air, water or migrating organisms - that cross borders and point to a trans-national approach.
Acoustic Commons is dedicated to building resilient networks across sites, distributing creative technical resources and cultural know-how and contributing to the long term cultivation of knowledge commons. The project seeks to identify and reactivate common land as a site for shared cultural activity and to encourage the sharing of practices and knowledge between practitioners, organisations, the public and institutions across Europe. Through improvised networks and hybrid on-site / on-line events, and by developing low-cost, lightweight ways to amplify less heard human and other voices, we contribute to reworking and extending our ‘habits of assembly’.
Soundcamp are an arts cooperative based in London, Crete and the Hague, working on transmission ecologies from DIY broadcasting devices to public sound and radio projects. As part of the Acoustic Commons network, they coordinate the long-form radio broadcast Reveil (2014 –), and a series of sound and ecology events (soundcamps) on Dawn Chorus day each year.
Image credit: Soundcamp. Used with permission.
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This event curated by: Alice Eldridge.
In collaboration with Sussex Humanities Lab (shl@sussex.ac.uk).
This programme is supported with funding from: Consortium for the Humanities and Arts South-East England (CHASE) - Cohort Development Fund (CDF)
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