Swiss/UK scholar Salomé Voegelin introduces her ideas on sound and ‘possible world theory’
Date/Time: Feb 10 2018, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Vancouver, Western FrontCost: Free
ARTIST TALK ~ FORUM
Starting from her recent book Sonic Possible Worlds (2014) and its suggestion of invisible sonic slices that show the actual world in its possibilities, she will engage in the political dimension and opportunities of such possible worlds, encouraging a political practice of the audible and of what we cannot yet hear.
Listening Beyond Forum is a part of the-possible-impossible-thing-of-sound installation series investigates real and imagined sounds beyond the hearing spectrum. It continues from the Fall with a visit from scholar/artist Salomé Voegelin and the world premiere of Juliet Palmer’s latest work, Inside Us, Feb 1-10.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, NY, 2010, which has achieved national and international recognition for offering ‘a refreshing departure from the many surveys of sound art’ (Michael McCrea, Sound Art, June 2010) and for ‘making a powerful case for preserving the “immersive complexity” of auditory experience against a critical language, that […], is always guided by the imperatives of the visual’ (Montgomery, The Wire, August 2010). Her second book Sonic Possible Worlds: Hearing the Continuum of Sound, was published by Bloomsbury in June 2014. It adapts and develops possible world theory in relation to sound to produce a meeting of the semantic and the phenomenological at the place of listening. David Rothenberg, writing in The Wire (370, December 2014), suggests it ‘might change the way you listen, and increase the depth of your questioning and wondering.‘ and Marcel Cobussen, calls it a ‘provocative and challenging endeavor to take this necessary discussion to a high scholarly level without losing the connection with the art works themselves.’ (Journal of Sonic Studies, http://sonicstudies.org/voegelin2014) Her most recent publication Colloquium: Sound Art – Music, Zero Books, Winchester, 2016, co-edited with Thomas Gardner, makes the relationship between sound art and music colloquial, spoken and practised rather than a matter of disciplinary boundaries.
Western Front gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation, Canadian Heritage and the City of Vancouver.
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