multimodalen Workshop
„Doing & Undoing Sonic Fieldnotes”
23.5.2024 von 16-20 Uhr
an der Universität Jena
Gemeinsam mit Dr. Alastair Mackie, Gastwissenschaftler an der Uni Jena, loten wir am Seminar für VK/KG (Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) das kreative Potenzial von Audio Samples im Rahmen ethnografischer Forschung aus (ausführliche Beschreibung des Workshops siehe unten).
Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen des Seminars „Kulturtechniken der Simulation” statt und ist auch für externe Teilnehmer*innen aller Fachrichtungen geöffnet (10 freie Plätze). Interessierte können sich bis zum 15.5.2024per E-Mail an marlen.lutter@uni-jena.de registrieren. Rückfragen richten Sie bitte an sarah.thanner@uni-jena.de. Die Workshopsprache ist Englisch.
Wir freuen uns über Anmeldung sowie Weiterleitung an Interessierte (im Anhang unser Workshopflyer).
Veranstaltungsort: Seminarraum Accouchierhaus, Jenergasse8, 07743 Jena.
Link zur Veranstaltungsseite: https://www.kuk.uni-jena.de/seminar-fuer-volkskunde-kulturgeschichte/meldungen/sound-ethnography-workshop
Workshopbeschreibung:
This workshop will encourage participants to do and undo audio recordings from the field using sample-based synthesis and composition. Reflecting on our sonic fieldnotes, we will explore how engaging creatively with sound might expose us to unseen parts of our field and how this can inform our research. The field is filled with multiple sounds which encourage scientific as well as creative sampling. Can both approaches inform each other? What kind of new harmonies and rhythms can we detect in our data which allow us to gain unheard, and perhaps also unseen insights (Mackie 2024)? How can they transform our modes of writing in times of transition (Dippel 2022)?
In this interactive workshop we will engage with sonic field samples. Recording audio has long been important in ethnographic fieldwork but it is usually anathema to change samples in any way. In music however there is a long tradition of adapting samples for audio synthesis and new compositions. Can we, as ethnographers, also use samples to compose sonic fieldnotes? And could sample-based synthesis expose hidden parts of our field data which we otherwise might not have heard? Extending from sonic ethnography (Gershon 2018), participants will explore the creative potential of fieldwork recordings. Introducing participants to ‘deep listening’ (Oliveros 2005), we will question what we hear and how we listen in the field. Participants will then be encouraged to record different locations in Jena and to collect audio. Using an app designed for recording and mangling samples, we will compose sonic fieldnotes. Afterwards we will discuss what we can learn from our explorations which we might have missed using other methods, and how this can inform our understanding of the field.