A hybrid listening across totems and talking wires
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2023-11-21
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en
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5
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Acoustic Ecology Review, Volume 1, issue 2023, Volume 1, issue 1
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This article unfolds around the notion of hybrid listening from the perspectives of Hildegard Westerkamp on totemism, and Pauline Oliveros's proposal of embodied technologies to expand our sensorium [1]: Both composers were led by the notions of ecology and utopia [2] and approached soundscape recordings from a long tradition of technologized humanism [3]. Their contribution enlighten a complex relation between soundscape technologies and indigenous listening [4] This encounter is highlighted with themes from the painting “The song of the talking wire”, by Henry Farny (1904). This approach underlines an attentive listening to wind driven soundscapes amplified through the telegraphic infrastructure. Hybrid listening means to combine embodied and technologically mediated listening [5] including diversified and non-extractive approaches to technologies for environmental sound [6]. In accordance with the painting’s theme, this article proposes a diversification of these technologies as an emergent agency raising from the discordance between western technologies and ancient cosmologies.Description
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hybrid listening, soundscape, situated knowledge, environmental sounds, indigenous listening, diversified technologies, atmospheric listening
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Duarte, J 2023, A hybrid listening across totems and talking wires . in Acoustic Ecology Review : Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Proceedings of the 'Listening Pasts, Listening Futures' 2023 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference . 2023 edn, vol. 1, Acoustic Ecology Review, no. 1, vol. 1, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States, 23/03/2023 . < https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/aer/article/view/5363/5503 >