I wish to co-explore these queries - What ways can we expose and dismantle sonic colonialities if we conceptually juxtapose the inaudible onto deep listening through sample-based synthesis? What ways can we challenge Eurocentric/Anglo-centric modes of listening through creative sonic fieldnotes?
Long abstract
This workshop contribution is a hopeful exploration of intuitive yearnings for a multi-species collaboration through creative sonic fieldnotes and urban musicalities in Aberdeen. My research interest lies at the junction of sonic relationalities, sonic colonialities as Eurocentric ways of apprehending sound-based relations and sense making, and the ways in which deep/conscious listening (Oliveros 2005) can help unfold new imageries of multi-species attuning, relating, and sense making in non-colonial ways. Through this workshop, I wish to collaboratively speculate the interplay of sound and silence and how a juxtaposition of inaudible (Voegelin 2019) onto deep listening can resound non-colonial onto-epistemic relationalities between human and beyond-human. How can deeply listening for silence and/or the inaudible expose hidden worldings between ethnographers and their multi-species interlocutors? I wish to co-explore the sonic transmaterialities of thought and synthesis in the geo-cultural context of Aberdeen, perhaps prompting to an un-disciplining of ethnography through creative sonic interventions, to further speculate collaborative sonic worlds that challenge hegemonic norms of identity based divisions.