"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 research and practice, representing a vital resource for community arts, performance practice, and research in the digital age"--
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.
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Distilling an Interdisciplinary Approach
Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Vachon
PART 1
First Knowledges First
Introduction
1. Burangaman | 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 Dont Rhine and Syrus Marcus Ware
Concluding Acknowledgement
Index
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 Deans 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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