Sonic Engagement

This book provides the first extensive analysis of what sound and audio brings to participatory interdisciplinary arts-led research and practice, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age.

Sonic Engagement examines the relationship between community engaged participatory arts and the cultural turn towards audio, sound, and listening that has been referred to as the 'sonic turn'.

This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a compelling mode of participatory creative practice. This book maps existing projects occurring globally through a series of case study chapters that exemplify community engaged creative audio practice. The studies focus on audio and sound-based arts practices that are undertaken by artists and arts-led researchers in collaboration with (and from within) communities and groups. These practices include-applied audio drama, community engaged podcasting, sound and verbatim theatre, participatory sound art, community-led acoustic ecology, sound and media walks, digital storytelling, oral history and reminiscence, and radio drama in health and community development. The contributors interrogate the practical, political, and aesthetic potentialities of using sound and audio in community engaged arts practice, as well as its tensions and possibilities as an arts-led participatory research methodology.

This book provides the first extensive analysis of what sound and audio brings to participatory, interdisciplinary, arts-led approaches, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age.

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Sarah Woodland is a researcher, practitioner, and educator in applied theatre and participatory arts, with a particular focus on engaging with communities and groups from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and those with experience of the criminal justice system. She is Dean's Research Fellow at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Wolfgang Vachon has been creating with and supporting children and youth through theatre and other arts practices for three decades. His work has primarily been with people who are street involved, homeless, 2SLGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, and those living in state care. Wolfgang teaches Child and Youth Care at Humber College in Toronto, Canada.

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Sonic Engagement examines the relationship between community engaged participatory arts and the cultural turn towards audio, sound, and listening that has been referred to as the 'sonic turn'. This edited collection investigates the use of sound and audio production in community engaged participatory arts practice and research. The popularity of podcast and audio drama, combined with the accessibility and portability of affordable field recording and home studio equipment, makes audio a compelling mode of participatory creative practice. This book maps existing projects occurring globally through a series of case study chapters that exemplify community engaged creative audio practice. The studies focus on audio and sound-based arts practices that are undertaken by artists and arts-led researchers in collaboration with (and from within) communities and groups. These practices include-applied audio drama, community engaged podcasting, sound and verbatim theatre, participatory sound art, community-led acoustic ecology, sound and media walks, digital storytelling, oral history and reminiscence, and radio drama in health and community development. The contributors interrogate the practical, political, and aesthetic potentialities of using sound and audio in community engaged arts practice, as well as its tensions and possibilities as an arts-led participatory research methodology. This book provides the first extensive analysis of what sound and audio brings to participatory, interdisciplinary, arts-led approaches, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age.

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: Distilling an Interdisciplinary Approach

Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Vachon

PART 1

First Knowledges First

Introduction

1. Bu'ra'nga'man | Dadirri | Yimbilli: Echoes of Listening to Country

Bianca Beetson, Vicki Saunders, Sarah Woodland, and Leah Barclay

PART 2
Sonic Knowing: Meaning and Resonance

Introduction

2. Audio drama inquiry: A telling method of research

Wolfgang Vachon

3. What does a cellphilm (cellphone + film production + intention) sound like? The ethics and aesthetics of cellphilm method

Casey Burkholder and Katie MacEntee

4. Composing place: Creating participatory sound portraits and compilations

Maureen Flint, Morgan Shiver and Ryanne Whyte

5. The radio play as restorative justice education: A creative collaboration between a grassroots organisation and artists

Tanyss Knowles and Frank J. Tester

PART 3

Sonic Assembly: Building Communities and Publics

Introduction

6. More-than-social listening: Undercover engagements and undoing auditory norms

Jill Halstead and Brandon LaBelle

7. Reinscribing the noise: New media walk technologies and the politics of community engagement

Christos Carras and Eric Lewis

8. Hyper-listening and co-listening: Reflections on sound, selfhood, and solidarity

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

9. I make noise therefore I am: Aesthetics of sonic experimentation in participatory art and culture

Vadim Keylin

PART 4

Sonic Disruptions: Creating Auditory Counter-Narratives

Introduction

10. Sound travels faster over water: Sonically re-designing institutional aural architecture with The Verbatim Formula

Maggie Inchley and Sylvan Baker

11. Yellow Couch Convos Podcast series: Navigating identity politics through collective voices and counternarratives

Rosemary (Rosa) Cisneros

12. Many Worlds in One Place: Composition as a Site of Encounter

Toby Young

13. Odyssey on the airwaves: A journey from HMP to hope

Gary Anderson and Niamh Malone

PART 5

Sonic Resistance: Soundscapes of Protest and Activism

Introduction

14. Engaging communities in listening to ecosystems: Case studies from acoustic ecology research in Australia and Mexico

Leah Barclay

15. Aural counterpublic resistance: Noise, silence, and acoustical agency in protest tactics

Nimalan Yoganathan

16. Street hassle: Noise, art, and activism

Mitchell Akiyama, in conversation with Don't Rhine and Syrus Marcus Ware

Concluding Acknowledgement

Index