Scales of Change: Addressing Global Environmental Change through Transdisciplinary Sonic Practices

变化的规模：通过跨学科的声波实践应对全球环境变化

• 批准号: 2779903
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2779903
• 关键词: Scales; Change; Addressing; Global; Environmental

The climate crisis is often represented in spectacular images of forest fires, floods and landscapes in drought. Yet it also has a sound: it is registered in geophysical tremors, the sonic signatures of volatile storms and the silencing of landscapes where biodiversity is shrinking. Sound is a powerful medium through which relationships between humans and environments can be mapped, felt and experienced at different scales. This practice-based doctoral project explores how sound-based research methods across the arts and sciences engender new understandings of, and responses to, the global climate emergency. This will be accomplished through: a survey of sonic practices across the arts and sciences; fieldwork with three laboratories pioneering the use of sound to study climate change; and three sonic-arts outputs linked to these fieldwork sites. Fieldwork will occur at: The Centre for Conservation Bioacoustics at Cornell University, where scientists use sound to study the links between biodiversity and climate change; The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of San Diego, where scientists listen to powerful storms; The Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway University, where geographers investigate the sounds of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes. Through an in-depth engagement with these scientific approaches, this project will generate three original sound artworks responding to environmental change in i) landscape, ii) air, and iii) ice. Drawing on my professional skills as a sound artist, this creative, practice-based project will investigate the communication of environmental data and explore how sound elicits public responses to the climate crisis. As the first arts-based investigation of environmental sound at the proposed fieldwork sites, this project will address a gap in understanding how artists and scientists use sound, and will make an original contribution to knowledge in sound arts, cultural geography and the geohumanities.

气候危机通常表现为森林火灾、洪水和干旱景观的壮观景象。然而它也有一种声音：它记录在地球物理震动、不稳定风暴的声音特征以及生物多样性正在萎缩的景观的沉默中。声音是一种强大的媒介，通过它可以在不同的尺度上映射、感知和体验人类与环境之间的关系。这个基于实践的博士项目探讨了艺术和科学领域基于声音的研究方法如何产生对全球气候紧急情况的新理解和应对措施。这将通过以下方式实现： 对艺术和科学领域的声音实践进行调查；与三个率先利用声音研究气候变化的实验室进行实地考察；以及与这些实地工作地点相关的三个声音艺术输出。实地考察将在： 康奈尔大学生物声学保护中心，科学家们利用声音来研究生物多样性与气候变化之间的联系；圣地亚哥大学地球物理和行星物理研究所，科学家们在那里聆听强大的风暴；皇家霍洛威大学第四纪研究中心，地理学家在这里研究巴塔哥尼亚安第斯山脉冰川的声音。通过深入研究这些科学方法，该项目将产生三件原创声音艺术作品，以响应 i) 景观、ii) 空气和 iii) 冰的环境变化。利用我作为声音艺术家的专业技能，这个基于实践的创意项目将调查环境数据的交流，并探索声音如何引发公众对气候危机的反应。作为在拟议的实地考察地点进行的第一个基于艺术的环境声音调查，该项目将弥补艺术家和科学家如何使用声音的理解差距，并将对声音艺术、文化地理学和地人文知识做出原创贡献。