Exposition

Braced Under the Heating Sun: Embodied Listening Practices (2025)

Melissa Ryke
open exposition

About this exposition

How can embodied listening be performed, from my ears (body) to yours? How are we (dis)oriented? ‘Braced under the heating sun’ is centred around listening to and documenting my childhood home and its aural particularities through processes of embodied listening. The project is based on my recordings and experiences there between February and March 2020 (bookended by the waning Australian black summer bush fires and the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic). The house is made from wood and so bends with the weather. The wooden structure amplifies the sounds of our habitation. The house is located on the edge of a small town and next to a sugarcane farm in North Queensland. Although in a tropical climate it has no flyscreens, and air-conditioning in only one room. The windows are open all of the time to let a breeze through. Most evenings you can find green tree frogs, geckos and insects amongst other animals in or around the house. In this way nature (a wild exterior) pushes against and blurs into the home (an organised interior). It is never silent there, the sounds are a mix of all forces; human/animal, natural/industrial. For me, it resonates as a site that is connected to the world despite its rural location. In this house the “rhythms and cycles of the living and the immediate needs of every living being are highlighted and played out. It is where intensities proliferate themselves, where forces are expressed for their own sake, where sensation lives and experiments, where the future is affectively and perceptually anticipated” (Elizabeth Grosz 2008). In this audio paper, I discuss this installation work and my continued research on embodied listening.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsembodied listening, sound art, audio paper, sound installation
date14/09/2025
published17/11/2025
last modified17/11/2025
statuspublished
copyrightMelissa Ryke
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3865775/3865776
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.3865775
published inResearch Catalogue


Copyrights

nameAudio Paper - Braced Under the Heating Sun
copyrightMelissa Ryke
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagesaudio
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture
nameBraced Under the Heating Sun at Listen for Beginnings
copyrightDaniele Pozzi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
usagespicture

Comments are only available for registered users.