D.A. Calf

Australia (residence)
research interests: sound, sonic materialism, Spatial Practice, archival practice, balkan history, french history, Language, serialisation, contested territories, Memory culture, memory politics, Sound Design, the quotidian, composition, memory, time studies, geology, archaeology
affiliation: Doctoral Candidate - RMIT University, Melbourne, AU
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D.A.Calf is a sound and installation artist, researcher, composer, field recordist, producer based in Melbourne, Australia. His research interests lie in explorations of memory, place, erasure and trace, especially in their relationship to sound, history, geography and language. These investigations are presented variously through sonic cartography, publication, installation, and archival work. He is a current Doctoral Candidate in the RMIT School of Art (Melbourne, AU) and holds a B.A (Hons) Fine Art (Sound Art & Spatial Sculpture) from RMIT University and a B.A. (Philosophy & Politics) from the University of Newcastle (AU).

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  • A Spectral Geology (2022) author(s): D.A. Calf published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Monuments exist as loci of official history, designed to be resilient and permanent. However, the world around them is in constant flux, questioning their continued significance. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken at monument (spomenik) sites in the former Yugoslav republics of the Western Balkans, together with archival sources, A Spectral Geology is a creative outcome of a continuing speculative investigation into sound and its potential contribution to alternative historical narratives. In imagining sound as a geological, sedimentary medium with the potential to transmit and sequester memory, it considers the possibility of hearing the murmured traces of the past through its excavation.
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