Zugzwang* or the compulsion to find a common baseline in sound

This text is comprised of a multi-platform discussion between the members of the Zugzwang* working group between 03 July and 30 August 2021. Focused on notions of taking up space, acting, and intervening, this discussion expands on previous presentations and research by the group by highlighting how the participants’ artistic and scholarly practices are engaged in making a difference within environments that are increasingly subject to anthropogenic devastation. As a discussion evolving over multiple platforms, this text is intercut and interwoven with questions, elaborations, and linkages, uncovering common themes, shared practices, and mutually-unanswerable questions in our collaborative work. This discussion itself follows the logic of our working practices, documenting a generative exercise in conversation, which in this case led toward an increased sensitivity to timings and scalings of observation and action. Particularly, the capacities of the group’s sound art practices when it comes to engaging with multiple sites, species and temporalities is put in evidence.

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Christina Gruber

Emil Flatø

Natalia Domínguez Rangel

Samuel Hertz

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 196-202

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[0001]University of

Applied Arts Vienna

Vienna, Austria

[0002]University of Oslo

Oslo, Norway

[0003]Independent Researcher

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

[0004]Independent Researcher

Berlin, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.26

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] H. Arendt (1998[1958]) The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London.

[2] Friedrich (2021). Life Sterlet. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. Available from: <https://life-sterlet.boku.ac.at/index.php/home.hmtl> 21.08.2021].

[3] IUCN (2010). <https://www.iucn.org/content/sturgeon-more-critically-endangered-any-other-group-species>. Requested August 14, 2021.

[4] E. Roberson (2006) Eclogue. Poetry Foundation. Available from: <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89465/eclogue-573e30b04c753>. [November, 2020].

[5] M. Savransky (2021a). Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse. Duke University Press, Durham.

[6] M Savransky (2021b). Problems All the Way Down. Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 38, Issue 2.

[7] I. Stengers (2005). The Cosmopolitical Proposal. In: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds), Making Things Public. MIT Press, Massachusetts.

[8] A. G. Weheliye(2005). Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.

[9] University of Rochester. Estrogen Controls How The Brain Processes Sound. ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 May 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174543.htm>.

[10] Yusoff, Kathryn. Geologic Life: Prehistory, Climate, Futures in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 31, No. 5, Oct 2013, pp. 779–795, doi: 10.1068/d11512

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