Sonic Earth
A Brigstowe Institute Sound Art Project
The Earth Speaks…Are We Listening..?
Sonic Earth is a sound art project that seeks to explore this question. Through sound recordings, composition and community engagement, Dr Natalie Hyacinth creates sonic landscapes that centre the Earth, and our complex place within it.
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Explore below reflections and refractions from the project. Contemplations of what sound may mean in an increasingly ecologically unstable world.
What we feel, we can hear.
sonic clues dot the landscape
Recording nature poses many ethical questions. Can nature be heard, beyond what we listen? How can we engage in a radical listening of the natural world?
a globe created by harmonic balance
Jacques Attali’s ‘Noise: The Political Economy of Music’, examines the ways in which the emergence of ‘noise’, a child of industrial capitalism, had transformed the soundscapes of the world. Sonic Earth seeks to do the same.
Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, 1977
natural beauty in its rawest musical form
The planet is asleep and it is the fault of the musicians who are untrue to themselves
Sun Ra
It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?
June Tyson, Space is the Place, 1974
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.
Jacques Attali
There are two ways of contemplation with Brahman: in sound, and in silence
Upanishad
Contact
Email: natalie_littleton@yahoo.co.uk
