What if everything we know is wrong?
- Submitting institution
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Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 9949804
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Bilbao
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
- May
- Year of first performance
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This performed spatial sound work was initially explored across research residencies supported by Brown University in USA and Pact Zollverein in Germany. The work was then developed through a series of distinct and context-specific public manifestations subsequently commissioned and produced by Artium, Pradillo and Azkuna Zentoa in Spain. All aspects of the project being co-conceived and co-created by Brookes, within his ongoing artistic collaboration with Spanish artist Rosa Casado.
The work manifests new approaches to the spatial construction and animation of ambient sound in performance, and explores the generation of discursive and reflective social situations that might emerge through its performance. Realised amongst an informal unseated audience within an otherwise empty public space, the work is defined by a located attempt to reconstruct the spatial and ambient aural qualities of one place, from previously collected aural details, within another place where it could not otherwise be present – using only fragments of sound captured and reactivated on 30 pocket dictaphones. Once constructed the resulting situation is used to support shared considerations of a selected reflective archive audio recording, chosen for its relevance to each specific audience and context.
Research questions include:
-How might the ambient aural environment of a place be mapped, captured, and reconstructed within another place?
-How might a spatial reconstruction and reactivation of such captured aural material allow a navigable encounter with aspects of the place that generated them?
-How might readily portable daily technologies enable such a reconstruction to be performed live, without any additional technical infrastructures being installed?
-In what ways might such a performed reconstruction highlight the absence or inaccessibility of the place being evoked, and refresh attentiveness to the actual and present?
-How might the resulting event be used to open and sustain reflective social situations and considerations of place?
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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