Event overview
A critique on (military) approaches to audio-normativity, listening virtuosity and the ear as site of authority.
Declassified World War Two documents in the National Archives use terminology such as ‘Camouflage ‘B’,’ ‘Aural Deception,’ ‘Sonic Deception,’ ‘Sonic Warfare’ and ‘Soniferous Deception’ to describe strategies intended to deceive enemy ears; contrasting historical systems were deployed to amplify and augment battlefield listening.
Such processes of aural deception and attunement develop earlier technologies and they still persist across many contemporary milieu to provide direct parallels in the US military language of "the Sound of Freedom" and in Sung Tieu's artworks related to the Havana Syndrome phenomenon. In the context of this series on AuralDiversities, rethinking these historical and contemporary approaches also allows for problematisations of audio-normativity, listening virtuosity and the ear as site of authority.
Angus Carlyle is a Professor of Sound and Landscape at the University of the Arts London. He studied law as an undergraduate and completed a Master in political theory and a Doctorate on the conditions of vocalised political exchange. His two most recently published chapters have focused on soundmaps and the idea of sonic wilderness. His extended essay on acoustic camouflage will be published in an Urbanomic book in the summer of 2023.
Professor Cathy Lane, co-wrote the oral histories In the Field (2013) and Sound arts now (2021) and co-organised the first three Sound Gender Feminism Activism conferences. His creative work shifts between a documentary impulse and a more poetic register, it deploys text, photography and compositions based on field recording and often involves working with others. In 2022 and 2023, his experimental writings were published by JOAN, Hotel, Vanguard, Onomatopee and Gruenrekorder.
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.
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 umbrella 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).
Image: Green camouflage background by psdgraphicscom
Dates & times
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| 29 Jun 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
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