If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the Radio ArtEZ podcast series Sounding Places / Listening Places writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, writer and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.
In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth.
In this second episode we focus on urban and domestic sounds with field recordist, musician and researcher Peter Cusack and sound artist Elise ‘t Hart.
Shownotes Reading
Cusack, Peter, Berlin Sonic Places: A Brief Guide (Wolke Verlag)
Cusack, Peter, Sounds From Dangerous Places (ReR Megacorp, 2011)
Voegelin, Salomé, Listening to Noise and Silence
