Sonic Engagement: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Community Engaged Audio Practice

Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Distilling an Interdisciplinary Approach
• Sarah Woodland and Wolfgang Vachon
• PART 1First Knowledges First
• Introduction
• 1. Bu'ra'nga'man | Dadirri | Yimbilli: Echoes of Listening to Country
• Bianca Beetson, Vicki Saunders, Sarah Woodland, and Leah Barclay
• PART 2Sonic Knowing: Meaning and Resonance
• Introduction
• 2. Audio drama inquiry: A telling method of research
• Wolfgang Vachon
• 3. What does a cellphilm (cellphone + film production + intention) sound like? The ethics and aesthetics of cellphilm method
• Casey Burkholder and Katie MacEntee
• 4. Composing place: Creating participatory sound portraits and compilations
• Maureen Flint, Morgan Shiver and Ryanne Whyte
• 5. The radio play as restorative justice education: A creative collaboration between a grassroots organisation and artists
• Tanyss Knowles and Frank J. Tester
• PART 3Sonic Assembly: Building Communities and Publics
• Introduction
• 6. More-than-social listening: Undercover engagements and undoing auditory norms
• Jill Halstead and Brandon LaBelle
• 7. Reinscribing the noise: New media walk technologies and the politics of community engagement
• Christos Carras and Eric Lewis
• 8. Hyper-listening and co-listening: Reflections on sound, selfhood, and solidarity
• Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
• 9. I make noise therefore I am: Aesthetics of sonic experimentation in participatory art and culture
• Vadim Keylin
• PART 4Sonic Disruptions: Creating Auditory Counter-Narratives
• Introduction
• 10. Sound travels faster over water: Sonically re-designing institutional aural architecture with The Verbatim Formula
• Maggie Inchley and Sylvan Baker
• 11. Yellow Couch Convos Podcast series: Navigating identity politics through collective voices and counternarratives
• Rosemary (Rosa) Cisneros
• 12. Many Worlds in One Place: Composition as a Site of Encounter
• Toby Young
• 13. Odyssey on the airwaves: A journey from HMP to hope
• Gary Anderson and Niamh Malone
• PART 5Sonic Resistance: Soundscapes of Protest and Activism
• Introduction
• 14. Engaging communities in listening to ecosystems: Case studies from acoustic ecology research in Australia and Mexico
• Leah Barclay
• 15. Aural counterpublic resistance: Noise, silence, and acoustical agency in protest tactics
• Nimalan Yoganathan
• 16. Street hassle: Noise, art, and activism
• Mitchell Akiyama, in conversation with Don't Rhine and Syrus Marcus Ware
• Concluding Acknowledgement
• Index