Listening Across Disciplines II
Lead Research Organisation:
University of the Arts London
Department Name: London College of Communication
Abstract
This project is the first to systematically investigate the potential of listening as a legitimate and reliable methodology for research across the arts and humanities and into science, social science and technology. It positions listening as an emerging investigative approach, able to: access new information relevant to the pressing problems of social exclusion, dementia, lung health, auscultation (medical listening) and speech recognition, and deliver new insights to curation, music, art, urban planning and civil engineering, where sound can reveal hidden potentialities and contribute to our understanding of culture and how we live together. To evidence and develop listening's capacity as a reliable research tool, this project sets out, through partnerships and embedded co-working staged over five carefully organized phases, to observe, document and analyse listening and to develop protocols of best practice for its shared application across disciplines.
Historically benefits of listening have been neglected in most disciplines due to its perceived unreliability. Recently there has been a marked sonic turn across the arts and humanities, with a growing interest in sound and listening. However in science, despite evidence of a broad interest in sound, listening is used mainly as a qualitative process, considered to lack legitimacy and viewed as subjective, peripheral to established data analysis methods, and being in need of technological (visual) verification.
This project is invested in the value of listening as a reliable research method, emphasising for the first time the cross disciplinary benefit of a sonic turn and providing its theoretical discussions with a shareable vocabulary. It will make a major contribution to studies of sound as well as to the practical application of listening across disciplines by establishing listening protocols and resources to build legitimacy and consensus. Thus, this project seeks to enable the potential of listening to yield scholarly and non-academic benefits for an array of questions that we are facing currently, making a radical contribution to current scientific and cultural problems, and impacting powerfully on the development of knowledge production and interpretation.
The project team is based at London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL) and University of Southampton (UoS). The project unfolds through strategically timed, planned exchanges and embedded co-working with national and international academic and professional partners.
The collaboration between CRiSAP (Centre for Research in Sound Arts Practice) at LCC and ISVR (Institute of Sound and Vibration Research) at UoS presents a unique context, instituting the meeting of scientific and artistic perspectives on listening this project seeks to explore. The primary context is the AHRC network project of the same name, led by the PI and Co-I in 2016/17. This project will build on the international network meetings and the findings generated there, which serve to inform and validate its purpose, method and scope.
To ensure public participation and access, the team will work in close partnership with Resonance FM (a global broadcasting station) and Points of Listening a public engagement program and will pursue outreach events: the Being Human Festival www.beinghumanfestival.org/, The Winchester Science Centre - science outreach for kids, and the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival www.southampton.ac.uk/per/university/festival/index.page. Outcomes include: A project website, which makes the research processes and the listening protocols publicly available; a book of case studies, which serves as an educational resource, presenting the protocols in a format that can support their implementation in all relevant curricula; a glossary to facilitate shared working and consensus building; a peer reviewed article, and a special issue of the peer reviewed Journal of Sonic Studies.
Historically benefits of listening have been neglected in most disciplines due to its perceived unreliability. Recently there has been a marked sonic turn across the arts and humanities, with a growing interest in sound and listening. However in science, despite evidence of a broad interest in sound, listening is used mainly as a qualitative process, considered to lack legitimacy and viewed as subjective, peripheral to established data analysis methods, and being in need of technological (visual) verification.
This project is invested in the value of listening as a reliable research method, emphasising for the first time the cross disciplinary benefit of a sonic turn and providing its theoretical discussions with a shareable vocabulary. It will make a major contribution to studies of sound as well as to the practical application of listening across disciplines by establishing listening protocols and resources to build legitimacy and consensus. Thus, this project seeks to enable the potential of listening to yield scholarly and non-academic benefits for an array of questions that we are facing currently, making a radical contribution to current scientific and cultural problems, and impacting powerfully on the development of knowledge production and interpretation.
The project team is based at London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL) and University of Southampton (UoS). The project unfolds through strategically timed, planned exchanges and embedded co-working with national and international academic and professional partners.
The collaboration between CRiSAP (Centre for Research in Sound Arts Practice) at LCC and ISVR (Institute of Sound and Vibration Research) at UoS presents a unique context, instituting the meeting of scientific and artistic perspectives on listening this project seeks to explore. The primary context is the AHRC network project of the same name, led by the PI and Co-I in 2016/17. This project will build on the international network meetings and the findings generated there, which serve to inform and validate its purpose, method and scope.
To ensure public participation and access, the team will work in close partnership with Resonance FM (a global broadcasting station) and Points of Listening a public engagement program and will pursue outreach events: the Being Human Festival www.beinghumanfestival.org/, The Winchester Science Centre - science outreach for kids, and the Southampton Science and Engineering Festival www.southampton.ac.uk/per/university/festival/index.page. Outcomes include: A project website, which makes the research processes and the listening protocols publicly available; a book of case studies, which serves as an educational resource, presenting the protocols in a format that can support their implementation in all relevant curricula; a glossary to facilitate shared working and consensus building; a peer reviewed article, and a special issue of the peer reviewed Journal of Sonic Studies.
Planned Impact
The project's aim, to bring listening as a methodology to a wide variety of research disciplines and professional fields, means it has the potential to impact and benefit a wide range of areas of research and work. The methodological potential and scope of listening is too often only discussed within sound studies and sound arts research, leaving its insights within its particular academic sphere. This project will open sonic thinking and practice to a variety of professions, starting an applied dialogue between professional fields through sound, and seeking outcomes that will benefit their end users. This brings the transformative potential of sound studies into an applied arena, impacting across disciplines from an arts and humanities lead and enabling their collaboration.
This project will impact on:
1. the professional partners from the Health Service (Lung Health, Alzheimer/Dementia, Auscultation/Stethoscope training), and Museums, as well as the partners from Anthropology, Urban planning, Civil Engineering Infrastructure/Architecture and Speech Technology and their end users, patients, clients. These partners are directly involved and will benefit from co-working with the project team. The questions and context of the project will augment and contribute to their diagnostic, investigative, and interpretative capacity, and to the way they conduct and communicate their work. It will bring a different awareness to their tasks and add new modes of working and outcomes. In turn their inclusion in the research process tests and grounds the relevance of the project. In relation to:
- health professions: the project may provide new diagnostic insights and benefits for clinical staff and patients
- the cultural partners: the project has the potential to enhance the public's and the curator's engagement with and understanding of artwork, music, collections and exhibitions through listening as an engagement in the mobile and invisible aspects of a work, and to transform aspects of its "exhibition": producing new access points and creating new aesthetic and cultural knowledge.
- architecture and urban planning: the project may create better understanding of how design impacts behavior and social relations.
- speech technology research with its use in a health context (Motor Neuron Disease) as well as in the commercial industry, the project has the potential to provide better understanding of the benefit and consequences of digital voices and to deliver more accurate voice generation for patients.
2. pedagogy and policy making on social integration, cultural competence and political parity. The initial network attracted the attention of the Council of Europe (Culture and Heritage Division) who invited us to contribute to their digital learning strategies for a Democratic Europe. This is an example of impact that we will build on in order to ensure the project's impact in relation to policy making and pedagogy. The project pursues a networked and public facing research process to ensure that the findings of each exchange will be made readily available to both specialist and general audiences so they might find influence beyond each particular exchange in the wider field of each discipline, informing its teaching and learning and working towards influencing policy.
- Through production of case studies, a website and a participatory platform for knowledge development, public engagement and outreach the research team aims to impact teaching and learning within and beyond the studied disciplines and to provide the benefit of a sonically educated future workforce with its economical and health benefits for the nation.
- Through regular Radio Broadcasts on Resonance FM, the Points of Listening events, the different public outreach activities, the project creates an open forum to debate and promote the potential of listening in relation to its legitimacy as a reliable method for knowledge production and its interpretation.
This project will impact on:
1. the professional partners from the Health Service (Lung Health, Alzheimer/Dementia, Auscultation/Stethoscope training), and Museums, as well as the partners from Anthropology, Urban planning, Civil Engineering Infrastructure/Architecture and Speech Technology and their end users, patients, clients. These partners are directly involved and will benefit from co-working with the project team. The questions and context of the project will augment and contribute to their diagnostic, investigative, and interpretative capacity, and to the way they conduct and communicate their work. It will bring a different awareness to their tasks and add new modes of working and outcomes. In turn their inclusion in the research process tests and grounds the relevance of the project. In relation to:
- health professions: the project may provide new diagnostic insights and benefits for clinical staff and patients
- the cultural partners: the project has the potential to enhance the public's and the curator's engagement with and understanding of artwork, music, collections and exhibitions through listening as an engagement in the mobile and invisible aspects of a work, and to transform aspects of its "exhibition": producing new access points and creating new aesthetic and cultural knowledge.
- architecture and urban planning: the project may create better understanding of how design impacts behavior and social relations.
- speech technology research with its use in a health context (Motor Neuron Disease) as well as in the commercial industry, the project has the potential to provide better understanding of the benefit and consequences of digital voices and to deliver more accurate voice generation for patients.
2. pedagogy and policy making on social integration, cultural competence and political parity. The initial network attracted the attention of the Council of Europe (Culture and Heritage Division) who invited us to contribute to their digital learning strategies for a Democratic Europe. This is an example of impact that we will build on in order to ensure the project's impact in relation to policy making and pedagogy. The project pursues a networked and public facing research process to ensure that the findings of each exchange will be made readily available to both specialist and general audiences so they might find influence beyond each particular exchange in the wider field of each discipline, informing its teaching and learning and working towards influencing policy.
- Through production of case studies, a website and a participatory platform for knowledge development, public engagement and outreach the research team aims to impact teaching and learning within and beyond the studied disciplines and to provide the benefit of a sonically educated future workforce with its economical and health benefits for the nation.
- Through regular Radio Broadcasts on Resonance FM, the Points of Listening events, the different public outreach activities, the project creates an open forum to debate and promote the potential of listening in relation to its legitimacy as a reliable method for knowledge production and its interpretation.
Organisations
- University of the Arts London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (Project Partner)
- University of Copenhagen (Project Partner)
- Urban Identity GmBH (Project Partner)
- The National Science and Media Museum (Project Partner)
- Resonance104.4fm (Project Partner)
- University of Edinburgh (Project Partner)
- University of Southampton (Project Partner)
- Finetuned Limited (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Voegelin S
(2021)
Leaky Knowledge: Listening between Bodies, Technology and Learning
in Seismograf
Voegelin S
(2022)
Protocols of Listening
in Resonance
| Title | A manifesto for Care-ful listening |
| Description | A manifesto for Care-ful listening created collaboratively during a public event at the De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-sea). The public event explored questions such as how can we develop a sense of care in relation to listening and a listening with a sense of care? How do we hear words beyond speech? Together with workshop participants we practiced individual and collective listening exercises, sound-making, notation and text scores. The activities culminated in a collaborative 'Manifesto-protocol for Care-ful Listening.' The event was produced in relation Mikhail Karikis' work I Hear You, installed in the first floor gallery and in collaboration with our partner Points of Listening. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The manifesto-protocol will be used in other workshop events. We will assess its impacts as the project develops. |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/events/ |
| Title | Performance Lecture - "SAY AAAAAAHHHHHH" |
| Description | Salomé Voegelin delivered an improvised, performance lecture in which sonic and textual material was used to stimulate and frame notions of 'listening' followed by a Q+A. The Old Operating Theatre, London, 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Sonic and textual material was used to stimulate and frame notions of listening. Audience members could engage directly with the ideas generated in the performance through a question and answer session. The full audio recording has been archived on the listeningacrossdisciplines.net website. |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/events/ |
| Description | One keyfinding that we are still currently working on is the benefits of introducing the use of non-systematised sound within the scientific process, adding relational gain. This is a finding that we will be seeking to confirm and work on in the reminder of this project and through future projects. another keyfinding is specific work to design interactive vocabularies and protocols to enable a working across disciplines beyond this project. The trials so far have been promising and we keep working on this within this grant and potentially into a future follow on grant for commercial exploitation and public use. a third keyfinding is the sonic pedagogy work that has developed from the field work and the public encounters and engagement activities. A related network grant application for a sounding knowledge network has been successful and we are exploring more ways in which the sciences too could profit from a sonic pedagogy |
| Exploitation Route | there is scope a web app development for educational use for which we are currently developing a follow on application. We are hoping to from the workshops and protocols as well as the vocabularies into a progressive web app for widespread and independent use and development of listening sensibilities in teaching and training across disciplines. there is scope for educational policy making and development in relation to the sonic pedagogy aspects of this project. Into pedagogy in general but also into science pedagogy in particular. we are keen and have started to disseminate our ideas on a transversal sound studies and its gain for scientific research. Here to we are in the process of developing partnerships and a funding bid in order to work with sound as an interdsciplinary bridge between health and environmental emergencies. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
| URL | http://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net |
| Description | We can see many exciting and relevant avenues to impact particularly in relation to the development of vocabularies and protocols, but as the project is not completed and COVID has delayed some of its field work and development we can not as yet assess the impact fully. We can observe some impact on non-academic contexts, particularly in relation to the various public events and the sound of the month participatory element online. These engagements and responses are evidence that the research, its processes and questions, is reaching people and creating impact. However, it is too early to determine a clear narrative. At this moment we can understand them as enhancing quality of life and creativity for the audiences who we are engaging in knowledge exchange events that bring the processes of the research to a participatory opportunities and investigation. Additionally through our collaboration with LSE London School of Economics and our joint work on data sonification we have are developing ways in which social data can be more usefully and easily be made accessible to the general public |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Other |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
| Description | AHRC research networking scheme |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/W006391/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Title | Listening protocols |
| Description | The project is currently developing 'Listening protocols'- innovative research tools for cross disciplinary exchange. The protocols organize and legitimize sonic processes as part of research and knowledge production. Such protocols are derived from the observation of practice and developed through public workshops and co-constructed analysis. The protocol is finalized into an instructive document that can be deployed as a tool across disciplines. The protocol is particularly impactful when applied in disciplines that do not necessarily listen as part of their everyday praxis (data sciences, curation). See 'artistic & creative products' for listening protocol example. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | As we are in the first year of the funding, the protocols are currently in development. The final document will be published and made public towards the end of the award. Impacts will be assessed at that point. In the process of development, we have found that the protocols are particularly impactful when applied in disciplines that do not necessarily listen as part of their everyday praxis (e.g. data sciences, curation). |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/protocols/ |
| Title | Vocabularies of listening |
| Description | This project is currently developing new tools and methods. 'Vocabularies of listening' is an online resource, which will be accessible to the public. The research tool brings together existing terminology on listening and hearing across disciplines. It evidences differences and commonalities; triggers new terms; and facilitates the discussion and consensus building process across disciplines. Housing vocabularies on a bespoke digital platform accommodates the fluidity of language and meaning while giving a sense of its contingency, and affords a novel form of digital thinking, archiving and knowledge-making. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | As this is the first year of the funding, the online resource is in development and will be made available to the public. Once available online, we will report on impacts. Vocabularies of listening has developed in part from an online web form developed as part of the earlier project Listening Across Disciplines. The online form presents a 'sound of the month' for the public to respond to, sending their description, definition or audition of the sound. See 'Research Databases and Models.' |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/vocabularies/ |
| Title | database on listening |
| Description | On the homepage of the website www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net users are invited to answer a monthly changing listening question. The questions serve to at once stimulate the users mind towards listening and on the other to collect data about the habits, priorities, contexts and objectives as well as modes of people's listening. These will serve to make a picture of a layman's listening engagement and the status and focus of listening in a non subject specific way. The answers are being collected are anonymised and stored on an encrypted hard drive for future analysis. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This database was developed as part of the project Listening Across Disciplines. It has informed the development of Vocabularies of Listening, see 'Research Tools and Methods'. The project is ongoing and the full data has not yet been analysed. |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/home/sound-of-the-month/ |
| Description | Gutenberg University Mainz ARS - CUPRAS Art, Research, Sound project |
| Organisation | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Due to the work done on this research project we have been invited to partner with the ARS - CUPRAS Art, Research, Sound project, which is currently lead by Prof. Peter Kiefer at the Gutenberg University Mainz. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The contributions are unfolding. |
| Impact | not yet applicable |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Conference Paper at the National Science and Media Museum titled Auscultating Museological Bodies and Spaces |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Salomé Voegelin and Mark Peter Wright presented a paper recently at "Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures", an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Science and Media Museum (UK). The paper, formalized as a film essay, reflected on the stethoscope and its use within auscultation: a method in respiratory health for listening to lung sounds. The work proposed that encountering and understanding lung sounds, via a medical discipline, could offer cross disciplinary strategies on how to curate and engage museological artefacts, underpinned by the design of listening protocols. The Film and Q&A was part of the session "Institutes and Memory" (Dec 15th) along with a presentation by Carolyn Birdsall, chaired by Tim Boon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/events/ |
| Description | Deaf Gain: Exploring Sound, Technology and Hearing Diversity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This event investigated the relationships between sound, listening and technology within the context of deaf gain (Bauman & Murray, 2014). The term was foregrounded over 'hearing loss' as an affirmative way to position the wealth of contributions deaf culture provides across science and art. Within the specific context of sound studies/art we were interested in the re-interpretation of 'loss' through 'diversity', and to engage in questions such as: what is deemed normative or natural listening and who gets to decide such parameters? How is technology enabling or disavowing deaf culture? How useful are terms such as hearing loss, hearing diversity and deaf gain? How might artists and scientists work together - with the aid of protocols - in ways that can establish ethical and aesthetic technologies? Contributors included: Marie Curie Fellow Carol Chermaz, artist and composer Tom Tlalim and multidisciplinary artist Seohye Lee. The event was produced in collaboration with our partner Points of Listening and supported by CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice). The event specifically engaged a hearing diverse audience, members of the public who were hard of hearing or deaf. We reached these communities through charities such as Action Hearing Loss and professional contacts we had made during the research. In addition to the deaf community we reached science and social science practitioners due to the cross disciplinary nature of the event. The event was a genuine cross-disciplinary experiment that combined science and art. Marie Curie Fellow Carol Chermaz, a voice synthesis practitioner and cochlear implant expert, conducted an original listening text within the context of a sound arts workshop. This has never been done before and Carol is now in the process of writing her findings into a published scientific paper as part of her research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/pol-50-documentation/ |
| Description | Designing a Sonic Planet #1 - Saturday October 1st 2022 - Berlin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To celebrate the end of a fantastic 3.5 years of researching together as Listening across Disciplines II, we staged a new beginning. On Saturday October 1st we brought together a group of researchers, artists, students, scientists and people who are generally and professionally invested in contemporary global challenges and/or the sonic. They were invited to workshop a sense of what we are facing, and to design, generate, discuss and propose, potential solutions (or at least pathways to solutions) and the conditions needed to make those solutions possible. In this venture we were motivated by the invisible and relational logic of sound: how it can make us see and sense the world as an entangled place, and thus how it can help us think and work with the "wicked", entangled problems of climate change, related public health issues, scarcity of resources, migration, social justice, etc. from sound's own entangledness. The first instalment of designing a sonic planet took place at Errant Bodies in Berlin. It was produced in collaboration with Elsa M'bala a sound artist based between Kribi, Cameroon and Berlin, Germany. More will be organised in different cities to work with a local but expanded ear in a globally connected world. The invited participants were: Nandita Kumar, Holger Schulze, Gilles Aubrey, Kate Donovan, Anton Katz, Mahlet Wolde, Moritz Simon, Merche Biasco. In a first discussion the word 'design' itself came under scrutiny for its anthropocentric and purpose driven sense and history. Thus, it became clear that words too must be re-practised and unperformed for an alternative imaginary that can think beyond the possible. They might have to be disrupted and troubled to generate that which we cannot yet think through existing vocabularies and grammar: a sonic view of the world from its invisible and indivisible relationality. We listened, walked, thought, and talked together; drew shapes and words and ideas; ate and drank together as we hope to in this manner and with a collective sense, create outreach and a discussion that can connect to other work going on in this area which can bring a sonic/relational competence to the current crises of climate, health, the social and so on. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/2022/10/05/designing-a-sonic-planet-1/ |
| Description | Designing a Sonic Planet #2 - Saturday 22 October 2022 - London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The second iteration of Designing a Sonic Planet took place on Saturday 22 October at IKLECTIK in London. Once again, we brought together a group of researchers, artists, students, scientists and people who are invested in contemporary global challenges and interested in thinking through the sonic. They were invited to workshop a sense of what we are facing, and to design, generate, discuss and propose, potential solutions (or at least pathways to solutions) and the conditions needed to make those solutions possible. The core LxDII team (Salomé Voegelin, Mark Peter Wright, Anna Barney, Julian Weaver, Timothy Smith) were joined by invited participants: Stephan Barrett, Richard Bentley, Catherine Clover, Lisa Hall, Sasha Engelmann, Indira Lemouchi, Samuel Hertz, Khaled Kaddal, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Kevin Logan, Nisrine Mansour, Laura Mitchison, Nicol Parkinson, Irene Revell, and Susan Schuppli. We formed smaller groups to have discussions, draw, walk, eat, drink, and think through the entangled problems facing the planet and its inhabitants. As with the first workshop in Berlin, the notion of 'design' once again came under scrutiny and it was also suggested that the focus should be on a 'multi-sensory' planet, rather than just the sonic. Other recurring themes that came out of the group presentations and subsequent discussions, raised feelings and emotions associated with thinking about the climate crisis, the inter-related public health crisis, and what action (individual and/or collective) we can take to remedy these intertwined problems. Early discussions focused on the feeling of shame; whether that be shame associated with a religious upbringing or an effect of the media-generated myth that the climate crisis can be solved through individual action. This sparked a fascinating debate around the difference between shame and guilt, and how we as individuals might be able to gain a greater sense of agency and be more empowered, despite or because of those feelings. The discussion then turned to grief and mourning. Some suggested that this indicated an acceptance that nothing could be done and that climate change was irreversible. But others argued that through the process of grieving and mourning, one might push through and begin to imagine new and viable solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/2022/11/10/designing-a-sonic-planet-2/ |
| Description | Experiments in Care-ful Listening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This public event was held at the Del La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea) and explored questions such as how can we develop a sense of care in relation to listening and a listening with a sense of care? How do we hear words beyond speech? Together with workshop participants we practiced individual and collective listening exercises, sound-making, notation and text scores. The activities culminated in a collaborative 'Manifesto-protocol for Care-ful Listening.' The event was produced in relation Mikhail Karikis' work I Hear You, installed in the first floor gallery and in collaboration with our partner Points of Listening. Attendees were from a wide range of ages and backgrounds. Discussions were fruitful and the venue received good feedback following the workshop. The main impact was through the practical production of a collaborative manifesto which was fed back to the venue as both a legacy of the workshop and prompt for future interactions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/pol-51-documentation/ |
| Description | Keynote lecture University of Aarhus 22.09.2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote "Sonic Epistemologies: Confrontations with the Invisible" at Epistemologies of Dialogue: Exploring the potential of the second person perspective, University of Aarhus 22.09.2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://projects.au.dk/fileadmin/projects/Epistemological_Aspects_of_Dialogue/Program__description__... |
| Description | Keynote lecture international conference Copenhagen, DK, 13.-16.09.2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote, 'Sonic Possible and Impossible Bodies: uncurating knowledge', international conference WHAT SOUNDS DO: New Directions in an Anthropology of Sound, Sound Studies Lab at Department Arts & Cultural Studies and Rhythmic Music Conservatory Copenhagen, DK, 13.-16.09.2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://rmc.dk/da/wsd |
| Description | Listening as Strategy for Research for and from the Arts | RMC CPH Online Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a public talk held online for the First and Second-year Master students and Third-year Bachelor students at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen on February 2nd 2021. Salomé talks about artistic research, and in particular about art and music's dual role as provider of an aesthetic and purposefully more than semantic and ambiguous experience, whose sensibility and processes can make an important contribution to research and knowledge across disciplines. She presents some of the various ways that artistic practice, and particularly sonic practices, can further conventional/taxonomical knowledge processes, softening disciplinary boundaries and advocating more hybrid collaborations that challenge epistemological givens and expand what we can know. She will emphasise the role of art in asking relevant and necessary questions on the global challenges of today (COVID, Climate Change, social integration, political migration, populism, etc.), and outlines ways in which artists and musicians take part in how we know and how we use and communicate that knowledge. Salomé: "I think the future will bring more complex responsibilities for artists and musicians, but therefore also new opportunities to bring their particular sensibilities and competencies into play, inside and outside the actual making of music and art." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/events/ |
| Description | Platform for Listening Protocols and Vocabularies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A significant part of LxDII's work has been the development of listening protocols and vocabularies. These two interlinked aspects of the research project have now been brought together on an interactive digital platform created by our partner Finetuned. Through the different phases, the project has positioned listening as an emerging investigative approach that is able to access new information relevant to the pressing problems of social exclusion, dementia, lung health, auscultation (medical listening) and speech recognition; and to deliver new insights into curation, music, art, urban planning and civil engineering. We believe sound can reveal hidden potentialities and contribute to our understanding of culture and how we live together. The listening protocols and vocabularies were developed through the encounters and embedded co-working with our partners, as well as from the practices of the LxDII team members. They reflect on the diverse ways that sound is understood across disciplines and reveal the different methodological approaches to the sonic. Recognising the centrality of these listening protocols and vocabularies for the development of an understanding of sound's potential as a new knowledge device/dimension, as well as for a shared approach and interdisciplinary working, we felt it was important to make them publicly available. To this end, we developed the interactive digital platform to open the protocols and vocabularies to cross-disciplinary scrutiny and inviting further examples and approaches. Some of these protocols might appear idiosyncratic, highly personal, subjective and poetic even, others are extremely impersonal, in search of an objective method and approach, and historically/discipline embedded. The format allows a user to browse for vocabularies and protocols for listening in their own field. Additionally, they can recognise cross-references and shared practices as well as learn from differences across disciplines, and hopefully feel enabled to understand other's listening practices and feel inspired to expand their own methods. The development and design of this platform represents one of the main outcomes of this project and is motivated by the belief in a sound-based interdisciplinarity: to advocate and enable a transversal working with sound. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/protocols/platform-for-listening-protocols-and-vocabulari... |
| Description | Public Talk at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a public talk held online for the First and Second-year Master students and Third-year Bachelor students at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen on February 2nd 2021. Salomé talks about artistic research, and in particular about art and music's dual role as provider of an aesthetic and purposefully more than semantic and ambiguous experience, whose sensibility and processes can make an important contribution to research and knowledge across disciplines. She presents some of the various ways that artistic practice, and particularly sonic practices, can further conventional/taxonomical knowledge processes, softening disciplinary boundaries and advocating more hybrid collaborations that challenge epistemological givens and expand what we can know. She will emphasise the role of art in asking relevant and necessary questions on the global challenges of today (COVID, Climate Change, social integration, political migration, populism, etc.), and outlines ways in which artists and musicians take part in how we know and how we use and communicate that knowledge. Salomé: "I think the future will bring more complex responsibilities for artists and musicians, but therefore also new opportunities to bring their particular sensibilities and competencies into play, inside and outside the actual making of music and art." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF0TanfJIp8 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) - Episode 7 Thresholds of audibility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast as part of a series of broadcasts by LxDII on Resonance FM. This episode is based on fieldwork in audiology at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton. Associate Professor Peter Glynne-Jones, from the department of Engineering, discusses the use of ultrasound in cellular research and its implications for disease detection. We also speak to Dr. Hannah Semeraro and researchers Holly Watkins and Hannah Burke about their work in the context of hearing loss as well as auditory training and assessment in the workplace. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 1 - Speech Synthesis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 1 was about Speech Synthesis and aired first Wednesday 7th October, 15.30, 2020. The stream is linked to the website where it can be be listened to on MixCloud. 190 listened to this online recording, on top of those who listened live to the Broadcast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-7-october-2020-1-speech-synthesis/ |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 10 - Sonic Pedagogy: Part 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode is part two of a three-part micro edition on Sonic Pedagogy. It is made from audio recordings of workshops and discussions, designed and hosted by Listening Across Disciplines, which took place on Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The group consists of a range of international scholars and practitioners. Core members include the LxDII team (Salomé Voegelin, Mark Peter Wright and Phoebe Stubbs), along with Nicole Furlonge, Kerstin Meissner and Kevin Logan. Invited guests for the three sessions included Werner Friedrichs, Abigail Hirsch, Anton Kats, Michael Gallagher, Walter Gershon, Shanti Suki Osman, Tara Page, Holger Schulze and Eder Williams. During this episode you will hear a series of discursive reflections that arrive out of teams working in separate breakout rooms. Each group shares views on how sonic pedagogy might meet the various problems and desires at work in educational contexts. Groups also connect conversations to methods and workshops as possible test sites for what sonic pedagogy is or could be. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 11 - Sonic Pedagogy: Part 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode is the final part of a three-part micro edition on Sonic Pedagogy. It is made from audio recordings of workshops and discussions, designed and hosted by Listening Across Disciplines, which took place on Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The group consists of a range of international scholars and practitioners. Core members include the LxDII team (Salomé Voegelin, Mark Peter Wright and Phoebe Stubbs), along with Nicole Furlonge, Kerstin Meissner and Kevin Logan. Invited guests for the three sessions included Werner Friedrichs, Abigail Hirsch, Anton Kats, Michael Gallagher, Walter Gershon, Shanti Suki Osman, Tara Page, Holger Schulze and Eder Williams. We begin this episode with a relay of contributor voices that weave articulations toward what sonic pedagogy is or could be. Afterward, you will hear a series of reflections that arrive out of teams working in separate breakout rooms. Each group shares various scores, ideas and experiments for workshops, and explore the possible sites of sonic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 12 - Listening Protocols |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode focuses on methods and approaches to listening via the format of a listening protocol. In the first half, we hear from Syma Tariq, a PhD researcher at CRiSAP, UAL, whose work explores the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, and focuses on forms of archive, testimony and eventness through an examination of listening practices. In the second half of the programme we hear from Peter Cusack whose work explores the intersection of listening, field recording and the environment, often focusing on the soundscapes of environmental damage. Both Syma and Peter share their views on protocols and methods in their respective research; and read their own listening protocols, which they made as part of a Listening Across Disciplines workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 13 - Sonification |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode explores data sonification, how sound is used to convey information that might traditionally be visualized through a graph or chat. In the first half of the programme we speak to Sandra Pauletto, Associate Professor in Media Technology in the Interaction Design Department at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In the second half of the programme, we speak to Alexandra Supper, Assistant Professor in the Department of Society Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. Both Sandra and Alexandra reflect on their practice and research within the field of sonification and consider the potentials and limits of sounding data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 2 - Sound Urbanism |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 02. Sound Urbanism. Wednesday 14th October, 15.30, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-14-october-2020-2-sound-urbanism/ |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 3 - Auscultation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 03. Auscultation. Wednesday 21st October, 15.30, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-21-october-2020-3-auscultation/ |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 4 - Sonic Anthropology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 04. Sonic Anthropology. Wednesday 28th October, 15.30, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-28-october-2020-4-sonic-anthropology... |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 5 - Biomedical and Acoustic Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 05. Biomedical & Acoustic Engineering. Wednesday 4th November, 15.30, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-4-november-2020-5-biomedical-and-aco... |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 6 - Sound Arts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Broadcast series launched on Resonance 104.4fm throughout October-November. Over six weeks episodes explored listening as a professional practice, diagnostic strategy and investigative method in the fields of health science, auscultation, speech synthesis, anthropology, urban planning, and sound arts. The programs mix conversations with lab and field demonstrations, as well as environmental sounds. Each installment creates its own listening journey and entangles different voices and approaches with the spaces in which listening takes place. Episode 06. Sound Arts. Wednesday 11th November, 15.30, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/listening-across-disciplines-11-november-2020-6/ |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 8 - Museums, Listening and Sound |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode is based on three online conversations with experts working in, and with, the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK. We speak to Annie Jameson, Associate Curator of Science and Technology, about the complex issues involved in curating non-sounding objects within a museum. We also hear from Toni Booth, Associate Curator of Film, who discusses listening from a conservation point of view as well as how to engage visitors with sound. Finally, we hear from Dr. James Mansell (University of Nottingham) and Dr. Alex De Little (University of Nottingham), who work on the project Sonic Futures. They discuss listening as a form of participation within the museum context and elaborate on how creating experiences, through workshop scenarios, can unsettle the traditional role of the expert. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Radio Broadcast (Resonance FM) Episode 9 - Sonic Pedagogy: Part One |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A radio broadcast by LxDII as part of a series on Resonance FM. This episode is part one of a three-part micro edition on Sonic Pedagogy. It is made from audio recordings of workshops and discussions, designed and hosted by Listening Across Disciplines, which took place on Zoom during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. The group consists of a range of international scholars and practitioners. Core members include the LxDII team (Salomé Voegelin, Mark Peter Wright and Phoebe Stubbs), along with Nicole Furlonge, Kerstin Meissner and Kevin Logan. Invited guests for the three sessions included Werner Friedrichs, Abigail Hirsch, Anton Kats, Michael Gallagher, Walter Gershon, Shanti Suki Osman, Tara Page, Holger Schulze and Eder Williams. During this episode you will hear a series of discursive reflections that arrive out of small teams working in separate breakout rooms. Each group was instructed to scope overlaps and themes specific to their interests and experience, in relation to sound and pedagogy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Roundtable Event: CRASSH Technologies of Listening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On Oct 16th, Salomé Voegelin delivered a presentation at Cambridge University for CRASSH event 'Technologies of Listening: Roundtable'. Salomé's presentation drew from current Listening across Disciplines II research and explored the influence and status of the technological conduits that enable and determine our listening during and beyond the live event. The presentation provoked questions of the audience members: Are we listening to technology or to the thing we are listening to? What is the space between technology and the ear, is it a fiction, a composite or a compromise? Does it matter in the mattering of sound? Thoughtful discussion was generated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28730 |
| Description | Sonic Pedagogy Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | LxDII will hosted a study group to investigate the emerging field of sonic pedagogy. Working with a range of international scholars and practitioners, and split across three iterative sessions, we: -explored what sonic pedagogy is or can be: attempting to find its histories and contemporary points of contact, and relating those to issues of identity, exclusions and erasures, and the possibility of a plural teaching and learning. -investigated how sonic pedagogy is practiced and what methods and approaches underpin it? Including the consideration of digital learning, art-based interventions, participation and community. -considered what entrainment, curriculum and educational framework sonic pedagogy might demand, exploring issues of documentation, communication, advocacy and engagement. Sessions ebbed across theory and practice throughout February 2021 with reflections and future development generated thereafter. A project website, www.sonicpedagogy.net, will be made available shortly. The site will serve to distribute related information and make public discussions, insights and practical outputs from the workshops, as well as plans for future development. The core sonic pedagogy working group includes the LxDII team, Salomé Voegelin, Mark Peter Wright, Phoebe Stubbs, along with Nicole Furlonge, Kerstin Meissner and Kevin Logan. Invited guests for the first three sessions are Werner Friedrichs, Abigail Hirsch, Anton Kats, Michael Gallagher, Viola Georgi, Walter Gershon, Shanti Suki Osman, Tara Page, Holger Schulze and Eder Williams. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.sonicpedagogy.net/ |
| Description | Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A video essay title Listening Instruments and Methods: Auscultating Museological Bodies and Spaces by Salomé Voegelin, Mark Wright, presented at the Conference in a section titled The Sound Archive: Institutions and Memory, chaired by Tim Boon. The conference was a four day public event held online during the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/sound-instruments-and-sonic-cultures-interdisci... |
| Description | Sounding the Archive: Wellcome Collection Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The LxDII team presented a joint keynote lecture for 'Sounding the Archive' at The Wellcome Collection, London. Drawing from their explorations of the collection's archives Salomé Voegelin, Anna Barney, Mark Peter Wright and LxDII partner from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Sandra Pauletto each presented a ten minute presentation of their research, considering what place sound and listening may have within the archive. The keynote presentation made the public aware of the nuances of sound as medium and conceptual strategy within the context of archival research. Members of the public engaged in the team's presentations and provocations with thoughtful questions and discussion. The event was also impactful in the sense that we made many new contacts including some that had a direct influence and impact on a future public event (Deaf Gain). In presenting order; Salomé Voegelin approached the Wellcome Collection's archives by attempting to find and explore the sonic 'in-between' of anatomy and poetry and the knowledge that may come from this. Exploring what we hear and do not hear within archives and tempting us to consider how we may be a little bit like spiders, Mark Peter Wright drew from recordings of the tarantella, a musical therapy for people bitten by the tarantula, as well as the dulcet sounds of wolf spiders purring. Biomedical acoustic engineer Anna Barney worked with an archival image from Fasculo de Medicina, written in 1493, exploring authenticity around the written word describing the sounds we hear in order to diagnose. Lastly, Sandra Pauletto dissected ideas around data sonification and drew from the handwritten meteorological journals of visually impaired, natural philosopher John Gough. The event was curated by Dr Louise Gray. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/events/ |
| Description | Synthetic Voices and Protocols Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Salomé Voegelin and Mark Peter Wright led a workshop with project partner Prof. Simon King at The Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh. 'Umms and ahhs: intelligibility and naturalness across disciplines' explored notions of intelligibility and naturalness as they are practiced between speech synthesis and sound arts. Through a series of listening exercises and group discussions we approached topics such as simulation, design and social responsibility, and worked towards the development of listening protocols that explore guiding principles for creating synthetic voices. The workshop educated speech experts on the use of language and voice within sound arts practice. Many of the participants fed back how insightful this was, and that it made them re-think the way they might approach their next project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/2019/11/05/synthetic-voices-and-protocols-workshop/ |
| Description | Technologies of Listening Round Table |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Salomé Voegelin took part in a fascinating round table at Cambridge University, as part of their 'Auralities' research network events. Auralities is concerned with investigating, debating and understanding practices of audition, broadly conceived. The round table was on the topic Technologies of Listening, and took place on the 16th of October 2019. Salomé joined Michael Bull, from the University of Sussex, and Melissa Dickson, from the University of Birmingham, and the discussion was moderated by David Trippett and with Steven Connor as Respondent, both from the University of Cambridge. The Auralities research network understands its research as necessarily plural: practices of audition are shaped by wider cultural practices that shift across different times and places; differences between 'hearing' and listening' have preoccupied philosophers and scientists alike; and even definitions of sound itself presume a normalized baseline of human sound perception (traditionally cited as 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz), averaged across large populations. On an individual level, too, pluralities prevail, as audition is typically understood as a psychoacoustic process that involves two ears - 'binaurality' - in which sound, space and time become closely entangled. Our seminar will explore these plural facets of sound, hearing and listening by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines across the humanities, social and natural sciences. In particular, the project aims to extend the current domains of sound studies chronologically, geographically, biologically, and culturally, to question assumptions about shared norms of hearing/listening. They are especially interested, somewhat paradoxically, in what we might understand as a post-aural moment in sound studies, where literal audition or the presence of audible sound are no longer presumed as a necessary part of aurality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28730 |
| Description | Transversal Sound Studies Keynote Lecture - international conference at Bauhaus University Weimar - 24th - 26th of June 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Salomé Voegelin is embarking on a new travelling performance project entitled Transversal Sound Studies. Her first destination will be an international conference at Bauhaus University Weimar, where she has been invited to deliver the Keynote lecture. She will advocate for a form of undisciplined, interloping sound studies that can work with every discipline to augment their working and thinking from the invisible. "I am not sitting in a room - urban, political and social resonances" will take place from 24th - 26th of June 2022 at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The interdisciplinary conference will focus on the question of how our environment would change if we were to shape it based on what we hear. Lectures will be structured around three thematic blocks: Urban resonances deal with the past and future of acoustic urban space design. How would our future cities look like if they were designed and shaped acoustically? To what extent urban sound design requires the cooperation of different groups and actors? Scientific analyses as well as artistic strategies for the composition of space-sound will be presented. Political resonances are dedicated to the Politics of Listening. Can listening enable political resistance? With focus on the analysis of soundscapes, to make previously unperceived narratives audible, the organisers also hope to find solutions to the increase of social fragmentation caused by the "Green Deal." Social resonances explore our acoustic coexistence with the non-human environment. How can we connect with animals? And how can we make their voices more heard? These questions will be explored in an interdisciplinary way, including an attempt to create a collective inter-species chorus of humans and non-human animals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/art-and-design/news/news/titel/how-can-we-design-urban-political-and-so... |
| Description | Workshop on Listening Methods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Salomé Voegelin, Anna Barney and Mark Peter Wright co-designed and led a workshop with MA Sound Arts students at London College of Communication. The session explored the ways in which students listen to specific examples from sound arts and the sciences; what methods and approaches are employed; how identification can aid or hinder knowledge; and what language is used to describe listening experiences. Conducted within an experimental and discursive environment the workshop has enabled an early focus on methods, and the ways in which students' approach, value and discuss sound and listening across disciplines. The workshop allowed students to discover what methods of listening they might employ within their own learning. As a consequence, students were able to reflect on their work more rigorously and differentiate modes of scientific and artistic listening. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net/2019/02/06/workshop-on-listening-methods/ |