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Paper short abstract:

I am patching my fieldrecordings to see how isolated listening experiences woven together can help think scale and spacial as well as temporal entanglements that give shape to the landscape of climate disaster. Can sound be one of the tools to help gain insight into the patchwork of Anthropocene?

Paper long abstract:

While conducting my current fieldwork, I am recording several types of stories: stories those that live here tell me, stories that various nonhuman participants - animal, plant and others - of this landscape weave, as well as stories that the elements convey.

Whenever the human stories are in disarray or I find myself in too much of confusion, I climb the mountains to record those nonhuman stories. The soundscapes I collect and archive, in my chaotic way, to me are glimpses of brief time and space, which help disentangle the pluriverse. At the same time, they hold data that opens further: other worlds, other -verses. Hence the sounds in my practice at present are data and method at the same time.

I've put some of those sounds into a stereo composition, framing and putting forth some things I feel willing to focus on, while pushing to the background some others, in the same way one does when writing, or working with the light and sharpness of the image. I am listening to hear if sounds that surround us can help think about the scale and time aspects of climate disaster which drew me into this particular space in time in the first place.