This audio paper is an attempt to reflect on the dynamics of long-distance communication at a time of crisis, and the ethics of recording and exchanging audio as a way of connecting at times contrasting material realities. To do this, we draw inspiration from Kanngieser's notion of acoustic politics of voice. Borrowing from Brandon Labelle, they describe the use of sound as a »method to engage in, and elaborate upon, contemporary globalized political landscapes that require more networked and situational understandings« (Kanngieser 2012, 337). The field recordings exchanged as part of this process between the two authors of the audio paper, are already a kind of »auditory geography«, or what Anderson and Rennie (2016) call »self-reflexive narratives«.
Sonic Worlds Collide – Sounds from Ukraine
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.