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Post-Natural Sound Arts (2017)

Mark Peter Wright
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This article argues for a new critical perspective called “Post-Natural Sound Arts” (PNSA). Its focus resides within the context of environmental sound arts and disciplines such as field recording, acoustic ecology and soundscape studies. PNSA questions entanglements of power and agency between recordists and their subjects and produces new epistemological consequences in relation to silence, subjectivity and technology. By discussing historical and contemporary audio documents, the author demonstrates how sonic representations are part of an interlacing of geographies, media, and time. These recordings harbor trace evidence of anthropogenic incursion and are re-heard in order to question a history of non-impact within the practice of environmental sound arts. PNSA therefore aims to function as both an audial-analytical methodology and instigator for artistic praxis.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPost-Natural Sound Arts, Silence, Ecology, Technology, Subjectivity, technology
date01/07/2017
published03/07/2017
last modified03/07/2017
statuspublished
affiliationCRiSAP, University of the Arts, London
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urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/292319/292320/41/593
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/JSS.292319
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue14. Issue 14
external linkhttp://markpeterwright.net


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