Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice

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Introduction
1. The Noisy Nonself: Ghosts, Monsters and the Apophenia of Listening
2. Post-Natural Sound Arts: Veracity, Representation and Rights
3. Unearthly Matters: Alterity, Vibrations and the Senses
4. Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields: Extractions, Polyphonies and Flows
5. The Thing about Microphones: Media Ecologies and the Possibility of Ear Prints Conclusion

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Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright’s own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the “Noisy-Nonself,” a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. “Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields” offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.

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Living After Nature is a very interesting read. A comprehensive and thought-provoking book, it brings together popular, new and possibly radical ideas for readers to consider. Wright is another brilliant example of a practising artist whose passionate interest and work thoroughly informs a clever, heartfelt book

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