Dynamics of Power Dynamics
It is through knowledge of the art-form and skilful weaving of networks of symbols, that creatives can dictate the terms of storytelling and thus exert their power over the audience.
It is through knowledge of the art-form and skilful weaving of networks of symbols, that creatives can dictate the terms of storytelling and thus exert their power over the audience.
This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.
The sound of the slogans at the demonstrations touches the body, it is impossible to hide from. The vulnerability revealed through this touch creates immediate affective responses pointing at the limitations of sonic support and solidarization.
Operating rooms are typically noise filled environments, where polyrhythms and polyphonics of human and non-human sounds collide. In this paper the operating room soundscape is used for relational ethnographic exploration, framed in critical affect theory, and brings together insights from medical sociology and sound studies.
In the audio-paper »Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man«, artist Morten Poulsen builds on his project »Boys Will Be…« (2022), in which he met with young cis-men to have conversations about vulnerability, intimacy and masculine norms
Following Ruiz and Vourloumis, this audio paper performance sounds a formless formation, exploring integrity and wholeness among Black and Indigenous collectives that organize via radical forms of togetherness outside state-sponsored institution
This audio paper explores the »acoustic territory« (Labelle, 2010) of Peckham Rye Lane through my sonic journey as a Peckham resident, practitioner, and researcher.
I went on an artist residency in Tokyo in 2018/19 for three months and ended up spending most of my time in karaoke boxes. I don’t remember what my actual project was but in the birthplace of karaoke, amateur singing of pop songs was all I could think of.
For over 4000 years, the Inuit in Kalaallit Nunaat, as Greenland is called in Greenlandic, have been living in an intimate relationship with nature in the Arctic. Their knowledge of how to survive under such harsh conditions has been preserved and passed on via sound through the millennia.
In this audio paper, we are focusing on a guided lamenting circle, and explore on the meanings that the participants in the circle give to the lament.
This audio performance paper queries if the application of sound and music has the potential to evoke and relieve the pain of intergenerational grief.
In this audio essay we interrogate the autoethnographic in soundscapes by engaging with the narratological nature of field recordings in their ability to convey not only affect but also memory, history, and context.