MULTICOMPONENT: Air Free (2) & How to you do - an audio installation artwork with three written poems and a deck of cards that explore how disparate populations can connect through the intimacy of the voice as pure sound.
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 329956
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Goethe-Institute; The Creative Europe Programme
- Month
- September
- Year
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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3 - Media Industries
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As an audio researcher and practitioner, I am interested in the intimate qualities of mediated sound. In this audio project a private space is created that simulates the unseen intimacies of the airwaves. The work explores how disparate populations can connect through the intimacy of the voice as pure sound.
The voices in this artwork were collected in Thessaloniki-Greece and Carlisle- UK and touch on themes such as solitude and belonging. The anonymous Greek-speaking voices were collected for me by the Media Lab community group in Thessaloniki after a multiday workshop I delivered on audio documentary, recording and interviewing techniques. The aim was for local people to acquire these skills and use them to bring me back the voices and stories of their community; rather than me selecting these as an outsider who might carry preconceptions.
The English-speaking voices are poets from the SpeakEasy group in Carlisle, with whom I was connected via the Freiraum Project. The poets were sent audio clips of the Greek voices along with three short poems that I wrote in English (deriving from the Greek stories). The poets were asked to write their own poems as a response and read them to me while I recorded. Despite only listening to voices they could not understand and my own poems being an abstract representation of them, the poets captured the essence of those stories and provided very emotive responses.
I edited these disparate voices together in a conversation that reveals how the intricacies, fears, aspirations of distant communities might be much closer than they seem. The artwork is an intimate aural tapestry of all those things that we have in common.
As an extension to this work, I also took part in a collaborative project, a deck of cards, with public provocations on freedom and action.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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