Sonic Engagement: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Community Engaged Audio Practice
New York; London: Routledge (2023), xiv, 332 pp.
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
ISBN 978-0-367-75837-0 (pbk); 978-1-003-16422-7 (online)
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Distilling an Interdisciplinary Approach / Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Vachon
PART I: FIRST KNOWLEDGES FIRST
1 Bu'ra'nga'man | Dadirri | Yimbilli: Echoes of Listening to Country / Bianca Beetson, Vicki Saunders, Sarah Woodland, and Leah Barclay
PART II: SONIC KNOWING: MEANING AND RESONANCE
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 III: SONIC ASSEMBLY: BUILDING COMMUNITIES AND PUBLICS
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 IV: SONIC DISRUPTIONS: CREATING AUDITORY COUNTER-NARRATIVES
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 V: SONIC RESISTANCE: SOUNDSCAPES OF PROTEST AND ACTIVISM
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 Don't Rhine and Syrus Marcus Ware
PART I: FIRST KNOWLEDGES FIRST
1 Bu'ra'nga'man | Dadirri | Yimbilli: Echoes of Listening to Country / Bianca Beetson, Vicki Saunders, Sarah Woodland, and Leah Barclay
PART II: SONIC KNOWING: MEANING AND RESONANCE
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 III: SONIC ASSEMBLY: BUILDING COMMUNITIES AND PUBLICS
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 IV: SONIC DISRUPTIONS: CREATING AUDITORY COUNTER-NARRATIVES
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 V: SONIC RESISTANCE: SOUNDSCAPES OF PROTEST AND ACTIVISM
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 Don't Rhine and Syrus Marcus Ware
