Dissonant Dopplegangers: Performing the Post-Natural Through Modulated Foley Techniques

This mixed media journal article investigates the multiple modes of inscription possible within a practice-based investigation of the Sonic Anthropocene. Drawing upon critical contexts from Geology, Geography and Anthropology, and the relations between writing, bodies and earthly matters, the authors suggest a re-writing occurs in mediated acts such as field recording (phonography). Microphonic translations from the field not only re-inscribe sites, plural; they reveal sound’s itinerant nature to be full of duplicitous and fictive potential. Operating such possibility through the practice of Foley, the post production art of material based sound effects, the authors pivot discussions around their soundwork Decoys (2018) and its attempt to address the urgency of anthropogenic change through a latticing of source and signal, site and studio, subject and observer, human and more-than-human.

The research is published in a special issue of the journal Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia dedicated to "Antropoceno Sónico".

The article includes documentation of research, an image of a score related to the project and a soundfile.

Keywords: decoys, environmental fiction, foley, inscription, sonic anthropocene

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