On Sound:
Unsound

Instructor: Jacob Eriksen Date & Time: Sundays, October 11, 18, 25, November 8, 15, 22, December 6, 13 11 AM - 13:30 ET

DESCRIPTION: Sound: The vibrational force that enters our ears, encapsulates our bodies, shakes our worlds. Unsound: The vibrational force that exceeds our ears, goes beyond our bodies, inhabit the world.

The interdisciplinary research field of sound studies has in the last decades established a flourishing mesh of sound theories and listening practices. In Unsound:Undead (Urbanomic: 2019), the research group Audint presents essays challenging the prevailing notion of what sound can be and how the world can be thought sonically. By addressing sound through its potentials as a vibrational continuum on the limit and beyond human hearing Unsound: Undead disentangles sound from its anthropocentric notions, revealing a world of sound out of sound.

Through inquiries in philosophy, cultural theory, and sonic arts, this course asks: What can inaudible sound do? What are the consequences of vibrational theories? How do these perspectives alter the way we understand audible sound? During the Seminar Sessions, these questions will be addressed in collaboration with six theoretical researchers and sound artists who all have engaged with sound beyond sound, each through their theoretical and artistic practice, approach, and methodologies. Additionally, the Seminar will touch upon and address concepts such as sonic materialism, politics of vibration, and posthuman listening.

October 11: Jacob Eriksen
October 18: Leslie García
October 25: Steve Goodman/Kode9
November 1: Lawrence Abu Hamdan
November 8: Eleni Ikoniadou
November 15: Toby Heys
November 22: Christoph Cox
December 6: Jacob Eriksen

IMAGE: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Conflicted Phonemes

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