//Unheard_Landscapes - listening | resonating | inhabiting 10th FKL/ENP/AAU_CRESSON International Symposium on Soundscape BLOIS | October 27 -30

Unheard landscapes: this metaphor leaves space to imagination, to the un-thought, to the un-known, to past and future, as well as unexplored sound scenarios. It also reaches the field of auditory perception, the acoustic domain. Sound, through auditive qualities, acoustic phenomena, design practices, artistic creations, and listening experiences, offers an inspiring transversal entry onto landscapes and ambiances. Beyond the discussions on “soundscape”, approaching ordinary environments through sounds increases the awareness of our own capacities to feel, while we inhabit and move across different worlds. From an ecological perspective, resonance appears a key word, too. It puts sound and space together. It implies the idea of a plurality of bodies, things and living beings vibrating all together, sharing common contexts of time and space. The act of listening bypasses the passive meaning it usually receives. It contains in itself a completely unexpressed potential, connoted with «project», «pro-action» and «active decision» by individuals. What will be the sounds of the future and the soundscapes in which we will live, or would like to? How can listening practices evolve, how will we listen or how differently could we listen to the world around us, tomorrow? Inhabiting the world brings to us questions about how we want to manage our being in it. How do we want to inhabit the world sonically? How sound and listening do actually affect our way to inhabit it? Have we lost some of our abilities to resonate with the world? What remains to be heard? Where could the practices of listening and attuning take us to?

Anita CASTELINO, Sherry OSTAPOVITCH | CA |

Soundwork

A Walk-in-Progress featuring: Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Joshua Conn, Imre Szeman, Christopher Alton, Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), Vanessa Gray, Jamie Magnusson, Max Haiven, and Christopher Smith

Abstract

On 5 October 2019 WalkingLab and the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) assembled a temporary community of activists, artists, scholars and other peripatetic counter-speculators in Toronto’s financial district to share knowledge, ideas and forms of resistance through a series of presentations at various locations. A Walk-in-Progress is a sonic response to this walking event. This creative composition is comprised of recordings of the speakers, interventions, and sounds of Toronto’s financial district made during the walk. Modular synthesis threads together the recordings, documenting resistance to Canada’s role in global extractive industries and consequences of finance capitalism.

Anita Castelino is a PhD student in Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. Her research interests include the social relations and political ecologies of digital technologies. Her previous soundworks have been exhibited at New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) and across the UK as part of The Listening Wall - featuring John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Yoko Ono.
Sherry Ostapovitch is a sound artist and educator based in Toronto, Canada whose work incorporates field recordings and multi-channel sound installations. Previous work includes the ambisonic 360 degrees sound installation, In a Queer Time and Space which assembles memories, places, and acoustic abstractions while grappling with the impermanence and fluidity of queer geographies. Sherry received a master’s degree in music from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently undertaking a PhD in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Research commitments include: listening, sonic pedagogy, sonic geographies, popular education, and practices of decolonization.
sherryostapovitch.wordpress.com.

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