The exposition schizopodcast describes and reflects on a generative podcast, a sonic artwork that is no longer accessible online, making its tangled experience inaccessible; such is the fate of an ephemeral medium. However, I have intended to trace some of the glimmers of sensation that emerged from this work, if you will, and to create a conceptual map in its wake. Sonic philosophy itself may become a fabulation in this account – another and in a series of ‘ands’ since D&G. The concept of fictioning as developed here is my attempt to pick up where I left off in ‘Sonic Peripheries’, to explore other ways of bringing speculation – about the real, about the sonic – into material practice. The project was never fully realized, nor could it have been, because, as Pablo and I knew, it would have needed endless iterations to take the rhizomatic form that we had envisioned. Self-criticism? Sure, as a project that heralded itself as the monster child of D&G’s legacy, I think it is only appropriate to do Dada justice and take the fun seriously, but not too seriously.
What I will take seriously, though, is the continued exploration of sonic fictioning in theory and practice, especially as it relates to my ongoing exploration of what it means to enact sonic thinking. In the context of my research initiative, sound&researchcreation, I am interested in (i) the aesthetic considerations of sound and research, i.e., what emerges from communication and results through sound; (ii) fabulation as a means of inquiry, i.e., using art writing as a narrative device; and (iii) how to problematize, i.e., using practice to think through theory, employing practice to produce theory, and deploying practice to critique theory. Ultimately, these interests have shaped my conception of sonic fiction/ing. In future work, I would like to further elaborate on the operational heuristics, including the aesthetic and epistemological aspects that arise from this approach, through case studies.
Finally, and most importantly, I want to close with this precious sentiment: ‘Intercessors change the norms of contact. Changing the norms of contact is always a creative gesture: there is no intercessor that would exist once and for all, nor is there a creative act that can flourish without intercession’ (Manning 2017: 10). My sincere thanks to Pablo.