Glacial withness: Listening at the edge of planetary boundaries
New audio paper by Angela Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, Santiago Rueda-García, Konstantine Vlasis, Daniela Amado, Adam Świtała, Rike Scheffler and Linnéa Ida-Maria Falck.
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The #audio #paper is part of Seismograf Peer’s series SOUND AND THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLDS
This audio paper offers an autoethnographic engagement with both glaciers and the ideas-of-glaciers through acts of listening by Snæfellsjökul fyrirforseta campaign members. The #campaign relies upon artistic intervention as #sociolegal innovation by nominating the glacier Snæfellsjökull for Iceland’s 2024 presidential race. A founding tenet of the collective’s working #method is listening as a primary strategy to become-with glacier (að jökla). Through campaign members’ application of multimodal research approaches, the audio paper will conceptualise, describe, and demonstrate how #listening forms an integral component of communicating with the more-than-human to speculate on possible future worldings.
The paper goes beyond the concept of the »soundscape« as a wide and general metaphor (Ingold, 2007) seeking more meaningful and intimate relationships via sound, understood as a physical phenomenon of vibration, both audible and inaudible (Östersjö, et al., 2024). It questions the Western notion of music as a human (and) sonic practice, promoting listening as a creative act of becoming-with. The narrative and #sonic structure of the audio paper is a building, layered unfolding – an ecomimicry of glacial becoming through flow, surge, thinning, thawing, recession, ablation, melt – where our prose outlines the palimpsestComparable to how palimpsests are archives for writing and revising, so too do glaciers compose and reconstitute the land. See Daughtry’s Acoustic Palimpsest. of Snæfellsjökull from its extent to its projected disappearance.
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𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 -𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀
Co-Creating a Songscape of Coexistence
What if listening could be a bridge between worlds; human, animal, plant, and the unseen more-than-human? This workshop invites you into a shared exploration of active listening as a way to connect, relate, and dream together across species.
Through eco-acoustic tools, writing, and drawing, we will tune into the rhythms, sounds and voices that surround us, especially those we often overlook. Together, we’ll gather these impressions into a collaborative “songscape”: a living soundwork that expresses our collective hopes for more harmonious ways of cohabiting this planet.
As we listen, create, and imagine, we’ll shape these experiences into a species-centered composition, culminating in a communal music box, a resonant artifact of our shared futures.
Come with open ears!
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀
𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐢𝐧 @louisepermiin is an experience designer focused on communicating ecological and biodiversity crises through tangible, sensory media. Her recent work involves visualizing eco-acoustic recordings of soil life across various landscapes.
𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝘇𝘇𝗶 is a sound artist with extensive experience in recording diverse habitats, species, materials, and objects using a wide range of equipment. He has also explored collaborative song-making using music boxes in participatory workshops.
𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐞𝐝𝐚-𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐜í𝐚 @eserueda is a music composer The focus of his artistic work is on the exploration of the timbral variability of sound and its narrative/expressive quality; his oeuvre is strongly rooted in concepts like time, nature, and emotions.
