Languages of Listening: How Digitally Mediated Ficto-critical Strategies Can Enrich Sonic Art-focused Sound Studies
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- 2023
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Sonic art is a relatively new field that has developed out of visual art, film and music practices. The study of sonic art has subsequently adopted the associated theoretical tools, many of which rely on a critical distancing of subject from the object. However, I define sonic art as concerned with contexts in which we become conscious of, and reflect on, sound and listening as a complex interdependent relationship of sound (object) and listener (subject)—a situation I describe as sonaurality. Through this research I propose and enact writing approaches that operate from within the experiential embeddedness of sonaurality. Drawing on feminist theories that challenge understandings of subjectivity and objectivity, I offer a tomographic authorial position, slices of writing from within that allow for contextualisation and reflexive criticality. The tomographic position is nurtured using ficto-critical strategies that combine creative and theoretical writing with the effect of generating both reflexive writing and reading experiences. These effects are further developed through digital publishing techniques that allow sound theory to sound. This research is undertaken in theory and practice with the website Languages of Listening illustrating how mediated ficto-critical approaches can enhance sonic art-focused sound studies.
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