Uniarts Helsinki Research Event – Salomé Voegelin: Transversal Sound Studies: an affirmative troubling of disciplines
The Centre for Music and Technology (Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki) and the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR, Uniarts Helsinki) are happy to announce the visit of Salomé Voegelin for an in-situ research day at Uniarts Helsinki.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and researcher who works with sound’s relational capacity to develop different and plural knowledge possibilities. Her thinking and performing around questions of listening, sound’s agency and role in an evolving field has been had an influential impact on sound studies and music. She pursues sound studies as a transversal study able to deal with the complex interdependencies of a connected world.
The research event is open to all Uniarts Helsinki students and staff (maximum capacity is 30 persons). In preparation for the event, a reading circle is organised to explore a few key texts that provide a frame for the topic of the day. Participation in the reading circle is optional, it provides a better context to make full use of the research day.
Program
Wednesday November 2, 2022
Venue: Musiikkitalo, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
9:00–12:00 Morning talk and discussion (in Meeting room S3101)
13:00–17:00 Workshop (in Iso Äänityshuone S1109, Music technology)
Reading circle
21.9.2022 and 12.10.2022
Reading circle for reading six texts selected by Salomé Voegelin. The reading circle meetings will be held 21 September 2022 and 12 October 2022, at 16:30–19:00 on both days. (Location tba).
REGISTRATION
Please note that we have two separate registrations, one for the Research event and one for the reading circle!
Reading circle registration – deadline Friday 2.9.2022
Research event (2.11.2022) registration – deadline Friday 30.9.2022
Transversal Sound Studies: an affirmative troubling of disciplines
This talk with performative elements and the following workshop aims to advocate and practice the transversal potential of sound. The suggestion is that the relational capacity of sound, its connecting logic and entangled mattering, offers novel ways to work inter-disciplinarily: to research and practice across and between disciplines to contribute to the global challenges of today: climate emergency, public health issues (e.g COVID-19) scarcity of resources, migration, etc., which are all compound problems that are the result of and reveal complex interdependencies which depend on more than one discipline for solutions. Their “wicked” interdependencies are made thinkable and graspable through the invisible relationality of sound. Offering us a means to understand and finally to engage and generate solutions from rather than despite their entanglement.
In this sense this talk and workshop brings two urgent issues together: 1. How can art and artistic thinking and practice, contribute to global challenges beyond illustration and communication, making the artist an agent of transformation and civic responsibility across disciplines, and 2. How can sound as a particular artistic and everyday material and concept, equip this artist-researcher and make thinkable other possible ways we could come to know and thus to transform this world and how we live with it?
The aim is to recognise the sonic as providing novel competencies of the invisible and the relational, that can collaborate with, critique, and augment conventional (visual) and singular knowledge pathways. Therefore, through practice and theory, we will engage in Sound Studies as an interdisciplinary study that might remain “undisciplined” but that has the capacity to embed itself and work across every discipline, to trouble their boundaries and broker their entanglements.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and researcher who works with sound’s relational capacity to develop different and plural knowledge possibilities. She pursues sound studies as a transversal study able to deal with the complex interdependencies of a connected world. She writes essays and text-scores for performance and publication. Books include Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), The Political Possibility of Sound (2018) and Sonic Possible Worlds (2014/21). Her forthcoming book Uncurating: Knowledge with Voice and Hands (2022) foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment’s desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art.
Voegelin’s practice works through participatory, collective and communal approaches. She uncurates curatorial conventions through performance, and pursues sonic pedagogies that trouble the lines of knowledge from an uncertain and plural listening. She is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. And is the PI (principle investigator) of Listening across DisciplinesII, LxDII, a research project that systematically investigates the potential of listening as a legitimate and reliable methodology for research across the arts and humanities, science, social science and technology, and leads the Sounding Knowledge Network, which conducts a multidisciplinary investigation of auditory teaching and learning. Both projects are funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), UK.
The Centre for Music and Technology (Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki) and the Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR, Uniarts Helsinki) are happy to announce the visit of Salomé Voegelin for an in-situ research day at Uniarts Helsinki.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and researcher who works with sound’s relational capacity to develop different and plural knowledge possibilities. Her thinking and performing around questions of listening, sound’s agency and role in an evolving field has been had an influential impact on sound studies and music. She pursues sound studies as a transversal study able to deal with the complex interdependencies of a connected world.
The research event is open to all Uniarts Helsinki students and staff (maximum capacity is 30 persons). In preparation for the event, a reading circle is organised to explore a few key texts that provide a frame for the topic of the day. Participation in the reading circle is optional, it provides a better context to make full use of the research day.
Program
Wednesday November 2, 2022
Venue: Musiikkitalo, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
9:00–12:00 Morning talk and discussion (in Meeting room S3101)
13:00–17:00 Workshop (in Iso Äänityshuone S1109, Music technology)
Reading circle
21.9.2022 and 12.10.2022
Reading circle for reading six texts selected by Salomé Voegelin. The reading circle meetings will be held 21 September 2022 and 12 October 2022, at 16:30–19:00 on both days. (Location tba).
REGISTRATION
Please note that we have two separate registrations, one for the Research event and one for the reading circle!
Reading circle registration – deadline Friday 2.9.2022
Research event (2.11.2022) registration – deadline Friday 30.9.2022
Transversal Sound Studies: an affirmative troubling of disciplines
This talk with performative elements and the following workshop aims to advocate and practice the transversal potential of sound. The suggestion is that the relational capacity of sound, its connecting logic and entangled mattering, offers novel ways to work inter-disciplinarily: to research and practice across and between disciplines to contribute to the global challenges of today: climate emergency, public health issues (e.g COVID-19) scarcity of resources, migration, etc., which are all compound problems that are the result of and reveal complex interdependencies which depend on more than one discipline for solutions. Their “wicked” interdependencies are made thinkable and graspable through the invisible relationality of sound. Offering us a means to understand and finally to engage and generate solutions from rather than despite their entanglement.
In this sense this talk and workshop brings two urgent issues together: 1. How can art and artistic thinking and practice, contribute to global challenges beyond illustration and communication, making the artist an agent of transformation and civic responsibility across disciplines, and 2. How can sound as a particular artistic and everyday material and concept, equip this artist-researcher and make thinkable other possible ways we could come to know and thus to transform this world and how we live with it?
The aim is to recognise the sonic as providing novel competencies of the invisible and the relational, that can collaborate with, critique, and augment conventional (visual) and singular knowledge pathways. Therefore, through practice and theory, we will engage in Sound Studies as an interdisciplinary study that might remain “undisciplined” but that has the capacity to embed itself and work across every discipline, to trouble their boundaries and broker their entanglements.
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and researcher who works with sound’s relational capacity to develop different and plural knowledge possibilities. She pursues sound studies as a transversal study able to deal with the complex interdependencies of a connected world. She writes essays and text-scores for performance and publication. Books include Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), The Political Possibility of Sound (2018) and Sonic Possible Worlds (2014/21). Her forthcoming book Uncurating: Knowledge with Voice and Hands (2022) foregrounds the perfidy of norms and engages in the curatorial as a colonial knowledge project, whose economy of exploitation draws a straight line from Enlightenment’s desire for objectivity, through sugar, cotton and tobacco, via lives lost and money made to the violence of contemporary art.
Voegelin’s practice works through participatory, collective and communal approaches. She uncurates curatorial conventions through performance, and pursues sonic pedagogies that trouble the lines of knowledge from an uncertain and plural listening. She is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. And is the PI (principle investigator) of Listening across DisciplinesII, LxDII, a research project that systematically investigates the potential of listening as a legitimate and reliable methodology for research across the arts and humanities, science, social science and technology, and leads the Sounding Knowledge Network, which conducts a multidisciplinary investigation of auditory teaching and learning. Both projects are funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), UK.