Sonic Fictioning: Podcasting as a Lure for Feeling
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Petra Klusmeyer
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The audio essay Sonic Fictioning: Podcasting as a Lure for Feeling introduces the concept of sonic fictioning through Schizopodcast – a sonic artwork presented as a web application and later published on Research Catalogue: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1894089/2463127.
Schizopodcast: A Podcast is a Podcast is a Podcast builds on Deleuze-Guattari’s ontology of immanence, viewing nature as an autopoietic force. It frames sonic fictioning not merely as an abstraction but as a resonant dispositif, shaped by its physical, cultural, and political contexts. Rather than opposing lived experience in late capitalism, sonic fictioning enacts a speculative flight, a ‘lure for feeling’ in the Whiteheadian sense. Used as a verb, fictioning is a practice of fabulation that connects to the real through sound, challenging the opposition between fiction and reality, producing or altering worlds. Schizopodcast asks how one might live, and how sonic fictions affirm this question. It examines the philosophical and practical implications of sonic thinking in reflecting on perception, understanding, and loopholes.
The audio essay continues this exploration of sonic fictioning’s aesthetic and epistemological aspects as a lure-for-feeling. Though speculation may not reveal truths, it highlights fiction’s aesthetic value and its conveyance of corporeal knowledge.
schizopodcast: podcast is a podcast is a podcast
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Petra Klusmeyer
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The experimental sonic artwork Schizopodcast: Podcast is a Podcast is a Podcast employs the concept of the rhizome and explores what I term sonic fictioning through a generative podcast. The project uses a methodology that involves art writing and autotheory, and incorporates elements of sound design and composition. It was commissioned for an art exhibition called Material Girls, developed collaboratively, and exhibited online. Note that the web application itself is no longer active. This exposition will focus on the conceptual and methodological framework of the project, but it will also seek to show that sound is not only a medium for narrative, but that sonic fictioning is a fundamentally sound-led approach, producing an aesthetic that appeals to the listener’s intuition and speculative flight in the making of possible worlds. In considering what it means to take sonic thinking seriously, interrelated themes and concerns are explored to illuminate the philosophical and practical implications of this project.