(Auto) Dialogical Feedback & the Poetics of Letting Go

This paper relates to a current and ongoing practice based project titled (Auto) Dialogical Feedback. The work endeavours to address the “culture of capture” which presides over contemporary field recording practice and discourse. It debates issues of agency, ethics and archival access within the paradigms of personal and institutional contexts. Specifically, the paper explores “re-broadcast” as a methodology within anthropology, science and sound art. Through (Auto) Dialogical Feedback, I will propose a counter practice, one that resides within a methodological domain I call: “the poetics of letting go”.