Becoming Soundscape – Listening, Perceiving and Acting
(2025)
author(s): Max Spielmann, Daniel Hug, Andrea Iten, Catherine Walthard
published in: Research Catalogue
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we, in our role as lecturers, conducted hybrid workshops with design and art students from ten partner institutions on five continents. Our goal was to explore soundscapes from different viewpoints, and we were deeply impressed by the outcome. The recordings and their accompanying images and conversations dissolved geographical borders along with social, cultural, and structural differences. We found that a re-sonance or con-sonance emerged from this collective work, in which sounds became manifestations of presence and agency; the sociality and simultaneity of the space we shared together remains with us today. With becoming soundscape, we attempted to bring the social resonance we had experienced in the workshops into the lecture hall.
Placed Sounds Displaced. Sound as a practice in between Art, Architecture and Design
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): Ricardo Atienza Badel
connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Keywords: Sound Art, Sound-Space, Resonance, Sonic Ambiences, Interdisciplinarity.
This exposition aims at sharing a “cross-border” exploration between sonic and spatial research fields. These are traditionally presented and understood as distinct knowledge areas, e.g. Sound Art, Sound Architecture, Sound Design, etc. However, they are intimately connected in experiential and practice-based terms.
A number of referential sound pieces have been chosen here in order to survey this in-between sound-space territory. Each piece prompts a micro-study that reflects on specific interdisciplinary traits. The purpose is to reveal common components and characteristics, parallel or symmetric processes in sound-space disciplines. To that extent, the micro-studies focus on transversal concepts and methods such as resonance, listening, sonic space, sonic ambiences, graphic scores and the materiality of sound, among others.
These referential cases are presented in dialogue with collective and individual sound-space explorations that the author has performed as a researcher, pedagogue and practitioner. All these materials are presented in a non-linear open form in which the visitor is encouraged to choose different paths and to establish own connections among the exposed cases and examples, including his/her own references and pieces.
An intended contribution of this exposition is to nurture a culture of openness at disciplinary boundaries, promoting fertile contagions among in-friction practice and research areas.
