Preemptive Listening

对气候变化、大流行、法西斯主义抬头发出的警告听起来像什么？警报器必须是警报器吗？我们如何应对警报疲劳，既是生活中的现实，也是对我们当前状态的隐喻？“先发制人的倾听”是一个以实践为基础的研究项目，它重新想象了警报和紧急信号，产生了一个纪录片/展览，一个音频档案，一个研讨会，期刊免责声明的相关问题，以及一篇共同撰写的期刊文章。该项目既是对紧急信号通信转变的诊断，也是一系列推测新的警报声的命题。在我们注意力经济的危机中，警报器正在经历一场深刻的变革，原因是我们持续的警报疲劳和噪音污染，以及公共音响系统广播的近乎过时和低效。许多警报器是二战和冷战时期的遗物，被重新用于传达极端天气的威胁，集体纪念暂停，或复活以测试备灾能力。警报器是世界范围内潜在创伤的密码，是气候灾难的象征，是声音治理的喉舌。我们正在从公共领域集体听到的响亮警报过渡到在个人移动设备上单独接收的振动警报。该项目通过音频多样化的方法提供信息，扩大了我们对谁在听以及如何听的理解。它质疑我们继承的警报器的效率，以及我们紧急情况概念框架的能力-主要用于发出单一事件(火灾)和立即响应行动的信号。它将试图改变我们从与警报声相关的遗传音景中听到的声音，质疑我们的危机管理信号系统是否可能是危机的一部分。在一个政治、人为和生态灾难交织在一起的时代--我们能想象声音不仅被打到即时，而且信号被设置到更长的时间框架，为不可想象的遥远未来敲响警钟，即灭绝的门槛吗？一组备受赞誉的实验音乐家创作了一段新的警报声的配乐，将为紧急信号绘制一个推测的未来。这将得到神经科学的观点和活动家和文化历史学家的见解的补充，以揭示我们所理解的紧急情况以及它们是如何交流的，从身体上扩展到以耳朵为中心的倾听，在概念上超越眼前的时间框架。该研究项目汇集了一系列跨学科的人员，旨在揭示重新想象警报器的关键潜力，采访档案将被提供给纪录片，为在RCA举行的研讨会、在昆斯特内斯(奥斯陆)的公共活动和相关期刊文章提供信息。这些主要成果将为提高认识和更好地了解不断变化的紧急信号通信方法提供宝贵的形式，这将有助于提高生活质量，并影响公共服务和政策。这部电影将扩大这种紧迫的讨论，将其扩大到直接的学术和艺术网络之外，进一步发展学术界、工业界和非学术观众之间的联系。作为一位国际公认的电影和声音艺术家，利用PI广泛的跨学科实践，这个研究项目的一个主要目标是在电影、音乐、声音艺术、社会学、媒体研究和聋人研究的交叉领域参与艺术实践的能动力量，产生本身就是一种倾听实验的艺术输出。这个及时的项目不断积累深度和细微差别，因为我们的应急和危机管理战略的概念不断变化，受无症状的、没有预警的、不容易暴露为可操作的潜在灾难的影响。紧急信号的重新校准是紧急的。

What do warnings for climate change, the pandemic, rising fascism sound like? Does an alarm have to be alarming? How can we address alarm fatigue, both as lived reality and as a metaphor for our current state? 'Preemptive Listening' is a practice-based research project which re-imagines sirens and emergency signals, resulting in a documentary film/exhibition, an audio archive, a symposium, a related issue of the journal Disclaimer, and a co-authored journal article. The project is both a diagnosis of shifts in emergency signal communication and a series of propositions, speculating new siren sounds. Nested within the crisis of our attention economy, the siren is undergoing a profound transformation, prompted by our ongoing alarm fatigue and noise pollution, as well as the near-obsolescence and inefficiency of public soundsystem broadcasts. Many sirens are relics from WW2 and the cold war, repurposed to communicate the threats of extreme weather, a collective commemorative pause, or resurrected to test disaster preparedness. The siren serves as a worldwide cipher of potential trauma, an emblem of climate catastrophe, a mouthpiece for sonic governance. We are transitioning from loud alarms heard collectively in the public sphere, to vibratory alerts received individually on personal mobile devices. The project is informed by an auraldiverse approach, expanding our understanding of who listens and how. It questions the efficiency of our inherited sirens, and the capaciousness of our conceptual frameworks of emergency - primarily used to signal a singular incident (fire) and an immediate responsive course of action. It will attempt to rewire our listening from the inherited soundscapes associated with the siren, questioning whether our crisis management signalling systems are perhaps part of the crisis. In an age of intersecting political, manmade and ecological disasters - can we envision sounds not only scored to immediacy, but signals set to a longer temporal frame, sounding the alarm for the unimaginable distant future, the thresholds of extinction? A soundtrack of new siren sounds composed by an array of acclaimed experimental musicians will map a speculative future for emergency signals. This will be supplemented by neuroscientific perspectives and insights from activists and cultural historians to open up what we understand as emergencies and how they are communicated, extending physically beyond ear-centred listening and conceptually beyond immediate timeframes. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of people, the research project aims to unpack the critical potential of reimagining sirens, and the interview archive will feed into the documentary film, inform the symposium held at the RCA, public events at Kunsternes Hus (Oslo) and the related journal article. These main outcomes will provide a valuable format for increased awareness and better understanding of the changing methods of emergency signal communication, which can feed into enhanced quality of life, and impact public services and policy. The film will extend this urgent discussion by amplifying it beyond the immediate academic and artistic network, further developing links across academia, industry and non-academic audiences. Drawing on the PIs extensive cross-disciplinary practice as an internationally recognised artist working with film and sound, a major goal of this research project is to engage with the enactive power of artistic practice at the intersection of the fields of film, music, sound art, sociology, media studies, and deaf studies, generating an artistic output that is in itself an experiment in listening.This timely project continuously accrues depth and nuance as our concepts of emergency and crisis management strategies keep shifting, inflected by the asymptomatic, the imperceptible potential disaster that has no warning signs, and does not easily reveal itself as actionable. Emergency signal recalibration is urgent.