The audio paper is an academic publication format that seeks to bring together academic argumentation, context and analysis with media, technology and situated, sensory experience in an audio production.
From Fluxus and the Situationists movements to sound montage and radio experiments in Hörspiele, sound poetry, Laut Poesie, and concrete poetry. Also, Murray Schaefer’s thoughts on the soundscape, Barry Truax’s acoustic communication and Steven Feld’s acoustemology combined with contemporary audio walks by sound artist Janet Cardiff and the post-dramatic art collective Rimini Protokoll has formed a conceptual framework for the audio paper.
The manifesto brought together ideas from diverse disciplines such as performance, – media,- sound, feminist, and STS studies; likewise theories of performativity, affect and site-specificity co-existed to allow the aesthetic complexities and indeterminacies of the audio paper to unfold within an open ontological framework.
Example:
Through the air with the greatest of ease: Phonogenie
Working on the islands of Brittany, Epstein was engaged with the psychic, philosophical and affective resonances of altering the time of sonic experience through phonogenie: sound magic. For the Fluid Sounds workshops in Copenhagen and London, participants contributed ‘remembered songs’ in response to prescribed scores, working on-site and telematically from Faroe Islands and the UK: singing and discussing sources, memory and affect.
Hearing on the verge
In ‘Hearing on the verge: cuing and aligning with the movement of the audible’, we engage the sonic landscape by recording and listening in movement. This is a cueing and aligning with the audible in our respective urban ecologies, in a counterpoint of moving and listening. We relay and exchange these recorded sounds, write and compose with them while expanding modes of listening across space-time and across situated milieu of hearing.
Reference:
Groth, S.K. et al. (1970) The audio paper, SEISMOGRAF.ORG. Available at: https://seismograf.org/node/19197 (Accessed: 22 November 2023).
Robinson, A. et al. (2016) Through the air with the greatest of ease: Phonogenie, SEISMOGRAF.ORG. Available at: https://seismograf.org/fokus/fluid_sounds/through-the-air-with-the-greatest-of-ease-phonogenie (Accessed: 22 November 2023).
Brabandere, N.D. et al. (2016) Hearing on the verge, SEISMOGRAF.ORG. Available at: https://seismograf.org/fokus/fluid-sounds/hearing-on-the-verge (Accessed: 22 November 2023).