Les jeudis de PRISM #7

jeudi 21 octobre 2021 14h00 > 17h00

« Sonic aesthetics in Japan and Colombia: Exploring the human & non-human imperatives in two art-science research creations » avec Rupert Cox.

(Invitation zoom à la fin de ce message ou en salle de réunion PRISM)

Résumé :
In this presentation I will describe and examine two projects – in Japan and in Colombia – that address issues arising from the translation of data produced by the acoustic monitoring and measuring of sound environments into aesthetic domains of visual art and music. The first project is about the collaborative creation of a film to show the life of a small farm situated in the middle of Narita airport in Tokyo, dealing with the impact of aircraft noise. The second project is about the collaborative creation of a music album to show how a network of communities in Colombia relate to issues of biodiversity through the sounds of various species (mostly bats, frogs and birds). The practices and devices of acoustic monitoring and measuring involved here, derive from the field of acoustics (in Japan) and from bio-acoustics (in Colombia). The fundamental issue in both projects which I will discuss, is about how projects that move from science to art should deal with the social and political contexts and the often urgent questions relevant to those who inhabit those environments ? How do we account for and respond to imminent pressures on those social and natural worlds ? A second question is about the aesthetic choices made in the shift from audio-to visual domains.  The presentation will be illustrated by two short films, the first about the Japan project (see link to ‘Air Pressure’) and the second about the Colombia project (see link to ‘Cucusonic’).

Links:
https://granadacentre.co.uk/project/air-pressure/
https://vimeo.com/30539007
https://cucusonic.net/cucusonic
https://vimeo.com/615703365/ (password: cucusonic)

Bio:
Rupert Cox is the director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, at the University of Manchester and an anthropologist, filmmaker and artist collaborator with a long-standing interest in Japan. His research has been on varied topics including the Zen Arts, the idea of Japan as a copying culture, the environmental politics of US military bases and most recently on the relationship between bioacoustics and conservation in Colombia. Thematic interests are in the intersections between art and science and anthropology that draw on practices from sound art, documentary and landscape film and are directed towards forms of public engagement. Currently he is writing a book for Bloomsbury Press – ‘The Sound of the Sky Being Torn’, which is an ethnography and cultural history of military aircraft noise; overseeing a new ‘Okinawa island sound archive’ for Alexander Street Press and collaborating with a network of biological scientists, and international musicians in Colombia.

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Publié le 07 octobre 2021

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