//Unheard_Landscapes - listening | resonating | inhabiting 10th FKL/ENP/AAU_CRESSON International Symposium on Soundscape BLOIS | October 27 -30

Unheard landscapes: this metaphor leaves space to imagination, to the un-thought, to the un-known, to past and future, as well as unexplored sound scenarios. It also reaches the field of auditory perception, the acoustic domain. Sound, through auditive qualities, acoustic phenomena, design practices, artistic creations, and listening experiences, offers an inspiring transversal entry onto landscapes and ambiances. Beyond the discussions on “soundscape”, approaching ordinary environments through sounds increases the awareness of our own capacities to feel, while we inhabit and move across different worlds. From an ecological perspective, resonance appears a key word, too. It puts sound and space together. It implies the idea of a plurality of bodies, things and living beings vibrating all together, sharing common contexts of time and space. The act of listening bypasses the passive meaning it usually receives. It contains in itself a completely unexpressed potential, connoted with «project», «pro-action» and «active decision» by individuals. What will be the sounds of the future and the soundscapes in which we will live, or would like to? How can listening practices evolve, how will we listen or how differently could we listen to the world around us, tomorrow? Inhabiting the world brings to us questions about how we want to manage our being in it. How do we want to inhabit the world sonically? How sound and listening do actually affect our way to inhabit it? Have we lost some of our abilities to resonate with the world? What remains to be heard? Where could the practices of listening and attuning take us to?

Stefano ZORZANELLO | IT |

Installation

Crossing the forest that crosses me

The project is set up as a study and a cross-domain sound installation. Every day and in every space, we are traversed by flows of electromagnetic waves, and in turn, we continuously cross electromagnetic fields of varying nature and intensity. In a certain sense, we live an experience of crossing a forest of signals while the same signals hit and traverse us. We are facing a senses-less landscape (invisible, inaudible, odorless, tasteless, intangible) in most cases. The project aims to sonificate this reciprocal crossing and the mobility of data associated with electromagnetic field variations. The sound installation will be based on transforming these data into sound events using some sound synthesis algorithms appropriately programmed and modulated by the behavior of the very same data. The process described thus far is of a unidirectional and inter-domain in type because there is a passage from the analysis that occurs in the domain of the electromagnetic field to sonification, therefore re-introducing actuators in the acoustic field. We intend to develop bidirectionality in the process, thereby also creating the inverse path; from the acoustic data derived from intensity and spectrum analysis to the production (through relative actuators) of suitably re-modulated electromagnetic waves. The bidirectional path, where the output influences the input of the process, creates an actual informational circle that is in continual transformation and generating new signals until the process terminates, thereby giving rise to autonomous and autogenerated behaviors. Such a process, typical of homeostatic machines, of autopoietic relations, and of audible ecosystems (Ecosistemi Udibili by A.Di Scipio (2000-2005)) to date have mainly been developed in single domain circumstances, acoustic one in the case of Di Scipio (cfr. Sound is the interface, (2003)), In our case we will attempt to develop the circularity between distinct domains. Moreover, the installation, through the automation of sonification auto fade in/out, and the relative pseudo-silences that derive from it, intends to highlight the aspects of the absence of sensory perception, though constantly present, of the unconscious dimension of our corporeal experience, and therefore of a landscape that is alive and changing beyond our senses.

Stefano Zorzanello, sound designer and sound artivist, scholar, instrumentalist, composer, game inventor, has been president of FKL since 2013. He does not have any facebook and whatsapp accounts.

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