PechaKucha @ Arts x Tech Lab - Voicing Sound
“So it is that every sound to which one listens for a long time becomes a voice" - Michel Chion, 2016.
Sound art is an inherently intersectional practice, located amongst many forms of creative practice, academic disciplines and social agencies. Arguably its most iconic precursor is the Rite of Spring in 1917 in which the inception of noise into the classical form set the stage for other challenges to cultural and artistic hegemony in a lineage punctuated by milestone works by Cage, Tanaka or Oliveros. But beyond music, sound art is an invitation to listen deeply - to the tonalities of the environment, to the location of its sounding, to the bodies and minds of its resonance.
This edition of PechaKucha @ Arts x Tech Lab series unpacks sound as a form of vocalization despite all the ambiguities and abstractions of its in-communication, highlighting its unfolding through an attentiveness to what it may convey, how it does it, and why it exists. The artists in this series may consider sound as an expansion of perception within technological assemblages, as a biophonic world of ecological interactions, or as relational practices of communities, histories and intergenerational memory. This discussion will bring us closer to an understanding of the work of sound art within our unique cultural setting, and provide insights to how creative practitioners have used it as methodology and expressive signal.
Registration is from 7.00pm-7.30pm. Light refreshments will be provided before the session.
Please come on time. Late entry will be managed at suitable intervals between speakers.
Guest programmerJoel Ong
Joel Ong (PhD, MSc.Bioart) is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment expressed through sound, installation and socially conscious art. He is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Emerging Digital Art Practices at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada.
Speakers TBA
Organised by Tusitala, with support from Creative Tech SG
This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative.
The art tech PechaKucha has been hosted by various organisers and curators within the Creative Tech SG Telegram community since 2023 (details here).