Question from slide: What do you associate with the term ‘ecology’?
The study of living organism in their environment
Global Sonic Cultures 09 Sonic ecologies
• Which ways of practicing sonic ecologies can you think of?
Field recording
Listening to nature
Listening to the city
Documenting sounds
”Eros, desire, life forces run through everything, not only specific body parts or specific kind of engagements among body parts. Matter itself is not a substrate or a medium for the flow of desire. […] This is a feminist project whether or not there are any women or people or any other macroscopic beings in sight. […] Feeling, desiring and experiencing are not singular characteristics or capacities of human consciousness. Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.”
(Barad, in Dolphin and van der Tuin 2012: 59)
In the first term we looked at Hildegard Westerkamp, Kits Beach Soundwalk, 1989. This is an example of acoustic ecology
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