Hearing the Continuum of Sound

Lecture as part of Performance Research Seminars of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.

Salomé Voegelin discusses her work as an artist and writer concerned with the practice and philosophy of sound. In particular she will introduce her current research into sound art works as sonic possible worlds, inviting us to hear the work as environment, as timespace place that we generate in our listening and that reciprocates us in what we hear. This sonic possibilism can be likened to the practice of an affective geography, inhabiting and walking through the work as world; to explore it from its material actualities and its imaginary possibilities to contingently decide what it is and what that is like. These environments are extended from sound art into the musical work, where through a participatory listening, music is drawn into the universe of sound and sonic production to find a shared accessibility that offers not an unproblematic, linear or homogeneous history between sound art and music, but that pursues a folding, unfolding and refolding of each other from the possibility of sound into the experience of listening to hear the possibilities of a discontinuous continuity.