Inquiry

Sound—and its haptic presence as vibration—carries a unique affective tenor in a world centered on vision. Through the enunciations of speech, melodies of music, harmonies of song, or dissonances of noise, sound is heard, felt, produced, and remembered in irreducible ways. What possibilities are latent in sound as media? What is translated when “sound” becomes “audio”? How does sonic performance enact collectivity, memory, ancestry, or spatial practice? Across diverse engagements with oration, field recording, song, and composition, artists engage sound as a medium for experimentation and action.