Becoming Sound
- Title
- Becoming Sound
- Subtitle
- Sonic Fluidity: A Multimodal Practice
- Author
- Date
- 2021
- Copyright holder
- Vivian Wang
Object
- Title
- Becoming Sound
- Subtitle
- Sonic Fluidity: A Multimodal Practice
- Date
- 2021
- Genre / discipline
- Description
- This thesis develops the concept of Sonic Fluidity as a viable practice for exploring malleable perspectives in sound and advocates for a broader, more inclusive approach to contemporary art and sonic practice through the hearing of shared volumes and the sounding out of hidden realms of sonic possibility. Through the sound art works of artists like Christine Sun Kim and Jana Winderen, sonic contexts that engage with different subjectivities and multiple modalities are analysed, to observe how diverse sensory and artistic processes can frame and resonate sonic bodies through the act of listening to and with others. I reflect on what constitutes a sense of fluidity, how embodiment, situatedness and multisensing might inform and augment creative methodology. I examine different theoretical perspectives for transforming sonic perception into a polyphonic experience of diverse resonances, to uncover what it means to set certain resonances into vibration in order to materialise the invisible, the formless and the abstract. The writing addresses the following questions – What is audibility? How do we amplify the unseen, the unheard and the unknown? What can be done to interrogate and queer the limits of sonic modalities to vocalise otherness? How can sonic sensibility be reconfigured to articulate multidimensional spaces and provoke reconciliation with other worlds? In pursuing non-normative multimodal practices, sonic fluidity becomes the feeling of being inside sound, manifestly present in moments of transformation, ready to traverse plural sonic worlds.
- Short description in German
- Examining the concept of Sonic Fluidity as a viable practice for exploring malleable perspectives in sound and advocates for a broader, more inclusive approach to contemporary art and sonic practice.
People
- Author
- Other creative participants
- Antoine Chessex - Thesis Supervisor
ZHdK
- Institutional affiliation
- type
- Study path
- Lecturer / head of project
- Antoine Chessex
Rights
- Copyright holder
- Vivian Wang
- Legal protection
- Terms of use
- Das Werk darf nur mit Einwilligung des Autors/Rechteinhabers weiter verwendet werden.