商品描述
A long-distance correspondence reflecting on the infravoice of a blue whale and other so-called "silent" subjects. An experiment in listening to frequencies beyond human sensorial range,
Silent Whale Letters is a long-distance correspondence intimately attuned to the infravoice of a blue whale, a document held silent in the sound archive, and other so-called "silent" subjects.
As part of an ongoing collaboration between Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini the letters consider how the silent document shifts the logic of the archive, figuring listening as a practice of preservation.
As the letters attune to the ocean loud with communications across time and space, the authors write about the movement of matter, of energies, wavelengths, currents and how the ocean preserves as it disperses what it carries. How does working with what we cannot see, or even hear within range, shift the parameters of attention? How does the energetic archival space of the ocean agitate and disrupt claims to knowledge, history, and power?
Moving through three years of call and response the book unfolds through "a joint meditation on the transformative potential of a note, a voice, carried from saltwater into the archive" (Rebecca Giggs).
They chart a process that is equally conceptual and intimate, theoretical and deeply personal, moving through discussions of (amniotic) undercurrents, call-and-response mechanisms, energetic wavelengths, oceanic and archival memory, mysterious scales, and the watery acoustic commons.
ContributorsKate Briggs, Emma McCormick Goodhart
Copublished with TBA21
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一封長距離的通信，反思藍鯨的低頻聲音及其他所謂的「靜默」主題。
《靜默鯨魚信件》是一個聆聽超越人類感官範圍的頻率的實驗，這封長距離的通信與藍鯨的低頻聲音緊密相連，這是一份在聲音檔案中靜默保存的文件，以及其他所謂的「靜默」主題。
作為Ella Finer和Vibeke Mascini之間持續合作的一部分，這些信件探討靜默文件如何改變檔案的邏輯，將聆聽視為一種保存的實踐。
隨著信件調整到充滿時間和空間交流的海洋，作者們寫下物質、能量、波長、洋流的運動，以及海洋如何在散播所攜帶的東西的同時進行保存。與我們看不見或甚至在範圍內聽不見的事物合作，如何改變注意力的參數？海洋的能量檔案空間如何激起並顛覆對知識、歷史和權力的主張？
在三年的呼應過程中，這本書展開了一場「關於一個音符、一個聲音的變革潛力的共同冥想，從鹽水中帶入檔案」（Rebecca Giggs）。
他們描繪了一個既概念性又親密、既理論性又深具個人色彩的過程，穿越（羊膜）潛流、呼應機制、能量波長、海洋和檔案記憶、神秘的尺度，以及水域聲學共享空間的討論。
貢獻者
Kate Briggs, Emma McCormick Goodhart
與TBA21共同出版。
作者簡介
Ella Finer's work in sound and performance spans writing, composing, and curating with a particular interest in how women's voices take up space; how bodies acoustically disrupt, challenge, or change occupations of space. Her research continuously queries the ownership of cultural expression through sound; often through collaborative projects centering listening as a practice of deep attention, affiliation, and reciprocity.
Vibeke Mascini explores through sculptures, installations, video, and text, a scaling of abstract phenomena into a sensorial scope, with the intention to seek agency from intimacy. In long-term collaboration with scientists, engineers, government employees, and musicians, she proposes a conscious understanding of electric energy as a statement of interconnectedness and entanglement--between species, media and nature, matter and energy. Her publications include
The Dent of Walter Umenhofer (2015),
Cloud Inverse (2017), and
The world is a verb (2023).
Kate Briggs is a writer and translator based in Rotterdam, NL, where she teaches on the Masters in Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute. She is the author of
This Little Art (2017) and
Entertaining Ideas (2019).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Ella Finer 在聲音和表演方面的工作涵蓋了寫作、作曲和策展，特別關注女性的聲音如何佔據空間；身體如何在聲音上干擾、挑戰或改變空間的佔用。她的研究不斷質疑文化表達的擁有權，通常通過以聆聽為中心的合作項目，將其視為深度關注、聯結和互惠的實踐。
Vibeke Mascini 通過雕塑、裝置、視頻和文本探索將抽象現象縮放至感官範疇，旨在從親密中尋求主體性。在與科學家、工程師、政府員工和音樂家的長期合作中，她提出對電能的有意識理解，作為物種、媒介和自然、物質與能量之間相互聯繫和糾纏的聲明。她的出版物包括《The Dent of Walter Umenhofer》（2015）、《Cloud Inverse》（2017）和《The world is a verb》（2023）。
Kate Briggs 是一位居住在荷蘭鹿特丹的作家和翻譯家，她在 Piet Zwart Institute 的美術碩士課程中任教。她是《This Little Art》（2017）和《Entertaining Ideas》（2019）的作者。
