//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?

Moumita ROY | IN |

Soundwork

Tales from Home

Abstract

'Tales from Home' is an ongoing series of sonic explorations of the artist pertaining to the act of listening at her home. The work was initiated during the covid 19 lockdown in India. With the new normal being defined by isolating oneself at home, this series depicts the constant flux of myriad emotions of the artist through the compositions. The act of listening is not just an external journey, it is also an inner one. The compositions traverse through fear, fantasy, frustration, imagination, and reality of the uncertain times - all arising from the confines of her bedroom. Note from the artist: Living in India, I am very much aware of my privilege of having a safe house and access to resources in pandemic times. For a long time, I felt guilty to record and document sounds around me, because the act of it seemed trivial compared to the dispossession of countless migrant laborers and their families during the lockdown. I started this series as a personal quest, to make sense of the dystopian world around from the fragments of the soundscape of everyday life. As I complete a decade in my journey of learning how to listen, sound-making and researching, my different sensibilities as an artist, a professional and a woman in search of meaning, find a convergence here.

Moumita Roy is an award-winning sound designer and media artist primarily focussing on sound-related art practices. Her works are inspired by different art forms and combine divergent methods such as filmmaking, field recording, listening awareness and exploring sound in context. She holds a Masterʼs degree in Sound in New Media (Aalto University), Finland and a PG Diploma in Cinema with specialization in Audiography from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India.

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