Listening

  • Sonic (Dys)tonic | Kim Munro, Peta Murray, and Stayci Taylor

    Sonic (Dys)tonic | Kim Munro, Peta Murray, and Stayci Taylor

    A message from the editor:   Sonic, Social, Distance As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into some sort of social restriction…self-isolation, social isolation, physical distancing, quarantine…since those who have the luxury of walls have…

  • Jordan Lacey: Some thoughts on the contemporary Urban-Nature Division

    Jordan Lacey: Some thoughts on the contemporary Urban-Nature Division

    A note from the editor, on Sonic, Social, Distance: In an interview with Digicult, Salomé Voegelin describes, “I understand sound, exactly because of its formless in-between nature”.[1] As more than a third of the planet’s human population has gone into…

  • Listening Protocols

    Listening Protocols

    Listening Across Disciplines has an interesting research idea at the basis of their project, related to “listening protocols“, which are aimed to “help stablish and legitimize listening as a reliable research methodology across disciplines”. Historically, benefits of listening have been…

  • Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Jacob Kirkegaard: Creating Space for Awareness with Sound

    Charles Shafaieh has published a great interview with Jacob Kirkegaard at National Sawdust Log talking about his sound work on post-mortem environments and ecological issues. Jacob Kirkegaard listens where others don’t. Using accelerometers that detect vibrations instead of more traditional contact…

  • A Manifesto for Care-ful Listening (listening for everything)

    A Manifesto for Care-ful Listening (listening for everything)

    Listening Across Disciplines has published a wonderful manifesto result of their Points of Listening public event held at the De La Warr Pavilion. “… we conducted participatory experiments in care-ful listening. Through the workshop process we created collaborative manifestos, guidelines, protocols…

  • Silence and Forest Sentience in Mustarinda, by John Grzinich

    Silence and Forest Sentience in Mustarinda, by John Grzinich

    Sound artist John Grzinich has published an interesting article on a recent residency he had at Mustarinda. “In October-November 2019 I was fortunate to spend a month experiencing the slow transition between late-Autumn and early-Winter in the forests of central…