Still from [your awe or oar or ore or audio or order]. Image descriptions/alt-text: A cluster of texts simultaneously written by three persons. Each cluster is marked by the writer’s name flag.
[your awe or oar or ore or audio or order?]
simultaneous writing and timestamped experiences,
2023.
[your awe or oar or ore or audio or order?] is a collaborative arts-based research project exploring the relationships between sound, language, and memory from a range of aurally diverse perspectives. This project uses a combination of video, audio, and text, manifesting in a two-part installation.
The 1st part is a record of simultaneous writing sessions responding to sounds and memories of real-time and past aural experiences. The 2nd part is a record of timestamped experiences exhibiting soundscapes of inner and outer bodies.
By interweaving the strands of research already present in Jay Afrisando's, Josephine Dickinson's, and Ed Garland's works, this project questions the role of language, memory, and interpretation in aurally diverse perspectives and probes the conceptual boundaries between perception, memory, and imagination.
About the artists
Josephine Dickinson studied composition with Michael Finnissy and Richard Barrett. She has published four collections of poetry and has collaborated extensively with artists, musicians and writers. Profoundly deaf since childhood, she became totally deaf in 2012. Her experiences throughout this and after receiving a cochlear implant have given her new insights into sound and a curiosity about its phenomenology, and how this can inform artistic practice.
Ed Garland is the author of Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories, which was the winner of the New Welsh Writing award in 2018. He recently completed a PhD at Aberystwyth University, with a thesis entitled Sonic Experience in Contemporary Fiction. He has noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, and wears RIC hearing aids. He is currently working on more essays about sound and reading, and an ongoing arts project called Pharmaceutical Percussion.
Jay Afrisando is an award-winning multimedia artist, composer, researcher, and educator. Employing multisensory and antidisciplinary approaches, he raises awareness of aural diversity, acoustic ecology, and cultural identity. He shares vital experiences and disseminates knowledge through various means, including video, spatial audio, fixed media, improvisation, and various collaborative methods.
Concept: Josephine Dickinson, Ed Garland, and Jay Afrisando
Film Editor: Jay Afrisando
Supported by Aural Diversity Network through Arts and Humanities Research Council funding.
exhibition
Aural Diversity Workshop 5: Music and Performance, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK on 21 Jan 2023.