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

气候危机常常表现在森林火灾、洪水和干旱景观的壮观图像中。然而，它也有一个声音：它记录在地球物理的震动中，剧烈风暴的声音特征中，以及生物多样性正在减少的景观的沉默中。声音是一种强大的媒介，通过它可以在不同的尺度上映射、感受和体验人类与环境之间的关系。这个以实践为基础的博士项目探讨了跨艺术和科学的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反应。这将通过以下方式完成：对艺术和科学领域的声音实践进行调查；与三个实验室进行实地考察，率先利用声音研究气候变化；还有三个声音艺术输出与这些实地调查地点有关。实地考察将在以下地点进行：康奈尔大学保护生物声学中心，科学家们在那里利用声音研究生物多样性和气候变化之间的联系；圣地亚哥大学地球物理与行星物理研究所，科学家们在那里收听强风暴；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。通过与这些科学方法的深入接触，该项目将产生三件原创声音艺术品，以回应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，这个创造性的、基于实践的项目将调查环境数据的传播，并探索声音如何引发公众对气候危机的反应。作为第一个以艺术为基础的环境声音调查，该项目将解决在理解艺术家和科学家如何使用声音方面的空白，并将对声音艺术、文化地理学和地理人文科学的知识做出原创性贡献。

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.