//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?

Claude SCHRYER | CA |

Paper

Radical Listening as Climate Action

When I read the call for proposals for this event, I was impressed by it’s radicality, notably the idea of investigating ‘un-thoughts, un-knowns and the unexplored’. This is in line with the massive ‘rethink of everything’ that I believe is required to address the climate and ecological emergencies. I proposed a short presentation on two inter-related topics that I think respond to some of the themes and questions raised in Unheard Landscapes:

1. Music as Acoustic Ecology

This idea that was raised at a workshop about Reality, Extinction, Grief and Art that I gave on April 23, 2021 at the BEAST FeAST 2021: Recalibration festival in the UK. I will explore how the arts could become the foundation of an ecological civilization.

2.Radical Listening as Climate Action

I am working on this topic for the 3rd season of my conscient podcast (about art and the ecological crisis) and with colleagues in the newly formed Sectoral Climate Art Leadership for the Emergency (SCALE) organization in Canada. I will explore the influence of indigenous culture on my thinking and how slowing down, despite the urgency of the climate crisis, is a path towards climate action.

Claude Schryer (1959, Ottawa) is a Franco Ontarian sound and media artist, arts administrator, facilitator and cultural worker. 1979 to 1999: MM composition McGill U, interdisciplinary work, environmental art and acoustic ecology. 2000 to 2020: manager of Inter-Arts Office and senior strategic advisor at Canada Council for the Arts. He is currently producer of the conscient podcast (arts + ecological crisis) and is a member of the coordination circle of SCALE, the Sectoral Climate Art Leadership for the Emergency. Claude also and practices zen.

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