Explorations of the audio essay as medium and method. With contributors including Justin Barton, Angus Carlyle, Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Robin Mackay, Paul Nataraj, and Iain Sinclair,
Sonic Faction presents extended lines of thought prompted by two Urbanomic events which explored the ways in which sound and voice can produce new sensory terrains and provoke speculative thought.
Three recent pieces provide the catalyst for a discussion of the potential of the "audio essay" as medium and method, a machine for intensifying listening and unsettling the boundaries between existing forms: documentary, music, ambient sound, audiobook, field recording, radio play....
Kode9's
Astro-Darien (2022) is a sonic fiction about simulation, presenting an alternative history of the Scottish Space Programme, haunted by the ghosts of the British Empire. Justin Barton and Mark Fisher's
On Vanishing Land (2006) is a dreamlike account of a coastal walk that expands into questions of modernity, capitalism, fiction, and the micropolitics of escape. Robin Mackay's
By the North Sea (2021) is a meditation on time, disappearance, and loss as heard through the fictions of Lovecraft, Ccru, and the spectre of Dunwich, the city that vanished beneath the waves.
Alongside photographic documentation of the events and edited transcripts of the artists' discussions,
Sonic Faction brings together contributors with diverse perspectives to address the question of the audio essay and to imagine its future.
ContributorsLawrence Abu Hamdan, Lendl Barcelos, Justin Barton, Ben Borthwick, Angus Carlyle, Matt Colquhoun, Jessica Edwards, Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Ayesha Hameed, Eleni Ikoniadou, Lawrence Lek, Robin Mackay, Paul Nataraj, Emily Pethick, Iain Sinclair, Shelley Trower
**音頻散文作為媒介和方法的探索。**
本書的貢獻者包括 Justin Barton、Angus Carlyle、Kodwo Eshun、Steve Goodman、Robin Mackay、Paul Nataraj 和 Iain Sinclair,Sonic Faction 提出了延伸的思考,這些思考源自兩場 Urbanomic 活動,探討聲音和聲音如何產生新的感官領域並激發推測性思考。
三篇近期作品為討論「音頻散文」作為媒介和方法的潛力提供了催化劑,這是一種強化聆聽並擾動現有形式之間界限的機器:紀錄片、音樂、環境聲音、有聲書、現場錄音、廣播劇……
Kode9 的 Astro-Darien(2022)是一部關於模擬的聲音小說,呈現了蘇格蘭太空計畫的替代歷史,並受到英國帝國幽靈的困擾。Justin Barton 和 Mark Fisher 的 On Vanishing Land(2006)是一個夢幻般的海岸散步敘述,擴展到現代性、資本主義、虛構和逃避的微觀政治問題。Robin Mackay 的 By the North Sea(2021)則是對時間、消失和失落的沉思,透過洛夫克拉夫特、Ccru 和消失在波浪下的城市 Dunwich 的幽靈來聆聽。
除了活動的攝影紀錄和藝術家討論的編輯稿本,Sonic Faction 還匯集了不同觀點的貢獻者,旨在探討音頻散文的問題並想像其未來。
**貢獻者**
Lawrence Abu Hamdan、Lendl Barcelos、Justin Barton、Ben Borthwick、Angus Carlyle、Matt Colquhoun、Jessica Edwards、Kodwo Eshun、Steve Goodman、Ayesha Hameed、Eleni Ikoniadou、Lawrence Lek、Robin Mackay、Paul Nataraj、Emily Pethick、Iain Sinclair、Shelley Trower
Justin Barton is a philosopher and writer. He is the author of
Hidden Valleys: Haunted by the Future.
Steve Goodman is a DJ/Producer (as Kode9) and writer. He set up the record label Hyperdub in 2004, and in 2019 the sub label Flatlines to focus on audio essays and sonic fiction.
Maya B. Kronic is the agent, patient, and product of an ongoing research project on hyperstition, gender accelerationism, and cuteness. They are currently co-director of research and development at Urbanomic.