Zoë , Sonic Relationality and Posthuman Urban Sound Art

Posthuman theory questions traditional concepts of the human subject by challenging each of us to adopt a planetary consciousness. It achieves this by breaking down dualisms that separate body and mind, and society from nature. It instead preferences a monist understanding of the real as a tireless “self-organising force of living matter”. This force is described as the vitality of matter, or zoë. Sonic practices have much to offer this emerging consciousness, in particular the concept of sonic relationality, which considers how listening interconnects bodies within a vibratory field of soundings. Three sonic interventions, realised thorough a recursive process of creative practice research, illustrate the connection between posthuman notions of zoë and emergent theories of sonic relationality. They are: Noise Transformation, which sought to reveal the aesthetic potential of traffic noise; Fielding, which explores the potential of sound art to inform new approaches to urban greening programs; and, Touchstone, which collapsed a sonic community into a performative digital sculpture marked by the Earth’s rotation. Each of these interventions reveals methods by which sound art installation practices and soundscape design are able to create new relations between bodies, by augmenting the vitality inherent to everyday materialities.

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Jordan Lacey

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.2

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

Conference acronym: RE:SOUND 2019

Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] R. BraidottiM. Hlavajova 2018 Posthuman Glossary New York Bloomsbury

[2] R. Braidotti 2013 The Posthuman UK Polity

[3] R. Braidotti 2011 Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti New York Columbia University Press

[4] F. Ferrando 2016 Humans Have Always Been Posthuman: A Spiritual Geneaology of Posthumnaism D BanerjiM. R. Pananjape Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures India Springer 243 56

[5] H. FrumkinL. FrankR. Jackson 2004 Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities Washington, DC Island

[6] R. Koolhaas 2002 Junkspace October 100 175 109

[7] B. LaBelle 2006 Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art New York Continuum

[8] J. LaceyS. PinkL. HarveyS. MooreS. SumartojoM. Duque 2019 A listening-based methodology for motorway noise design Qualitative Research Journal 19 1 49 64

[9] J. LaceyS. PinkL. HarveyX. QiuS. SumartojoS. ZhaoS. MooreM. Duque 2017 Acoustic design innovations for managing traffic noise by cancellation and transformation https://www.transurban.com/content/dam/transurban-pdfs/02/news/RMIT-Managing-Motorway-Noise-Report.pdf 30 July 2019

[10] J. LaceyR. McLeodC. AndersonC. Khoo 2017 The Artwork Remembers: designing a methodology for community-based urban design L VaughanB Haylock Designing Cultures of Care New York Bloomsbury

[11] J. Lacey 2016 Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led approach to urban soundscape design New York Bloomsbury Publishing

[12] S. PinkJ. LaceyL. HarveyS. SumartojoM. DuqueS. Moore 2019 Recycling traffic noise: transforming sonic automobilities for revalue and well-being Mobilities 14 2 233 249

[13] S. Voegelin 2014 Sonic Possible Worlds New York Bloomsbury

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Zoë, Sonic Relationality and Posthuman Urban Sound Art