Event overview
Sonic Citizenship: an attuning approach to sound and listening in vulnerable atmospheres
Working with sonic interaction design and site specific sound art in vulnerable atmospheres calls for an ecological and enactive methodology entailing investigations of actors and their interrelations with their respective environments as attuning and explorative agents. Based on Marie's Ph.D. project on sound in Danish Hospitals (2017) she has developed an attuning approach as a methodological framework aimed to accommodate both the multisensory atmosphere and the active listening engagement of the auraldiverse user through practice-based experiments.
In this talk, Marie wishes to explore and develop this approach through her previous projects in both hospitals and nursing homes. Furthermore, she wants to suggest how sonic citizenship can form a constructive framework for a community-based approach to soundscape development in both institutional settings such as the hospital as well as urban public spaces.
Marie Koldkjær Højlund is a sound artist, composer and associate professor in sound studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has just been awarded the prestigious “Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen honorary award” for her artistic work. The fellowship is the largest honorary award given to Danish artists.
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.
Research Umbrella: Place
As we emerge from a combination of onscreen life and living vicariously during lockdown, what has changed to how we relate to space and place from an auditory perspective, and how do we bring this to research, practice, discourse and future experience, empathy?
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This project is supported by CHASE Cohort Development Funding (CDF) for training.
This research unbrella is curated by Prof. John Levack Drever (Goldsmiths).
The AuralDiversity programme is co-curated by: Dr. Alice Eldridge (University of Sussex); Helen Frosi (SoundFjord) and Dr. Aki Pasoulas (University of Kent).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Jun 2023 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
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