Auditioning the Sonosphere: Live Audio Streaming as Expanded Geo-Practice

环境声音的故事是捕捉的故事：探索寻找声音的“宝藏”，稀有鸟类的叫声，以及被认为是“未被触及”和“野生”的地方的振动。在这个模型中，环境声音被视为原始的人工制品，没有人为干预，即使它们是艰苦的现场录音实践和技术干预的产物。然而，在过去的15年里，另一种倾听环境的模式兴起了，尽管这种模式远没有被实践和理论化。在“实时音频流”中，麦克风被半永久性地嵌入到某些地方；它们通过互联网将声音从一个地点连续地传递给许多可能的听众。通过这些“流媒体”，人们可以实时收听日本森林或伦敦南部花园的声音。对一些人来说，实时音频流媒体是数字化向流媒体转变的一个征兆。对于其他人来说，它将倾听环境的行为从“倾听”转变为“倾听”，允许地理边界的扩展。在当代声音艺术实践中，以及在环境和地理人文的声音辩论中，这种聆听转变的含义都没有得到充分的探讨。作为一名专业声音艺术家和八个国际音频流媒体网络的组织者，这个博士项目将从学术和创造性的角度研究当代实时音频流，并将提出一个“聆听”环境的关键框架。本研究将通过以下方式展开：i)分析当代音频直播从业者的工作；i)采访五个主要音频直播项目的组织者和参与者；iii)基于创意实践的实时音频流实验。我的目标是开发一个关键框架和跨学科的创意实践，将实时音频流作为一个独特的平台，用于聆听和响应环境的替代模型。

The story of environmental sound is the story of capture: of the exploratory search for sonic 'treasures', the calls of rare birds and the vibrations of places deemed 'untouched' and 'wild'. In this model, environmental sounds are treated as pristine artefacts, devoid of human intervention, even as they are the product of laborious field recording practices and technological intervention. However, the last 15 years have seen the rise of another model of listening to environments, albeit far less practised and theorised. In 'live audio streaming', microphones are embedded in places semi-permanently; they transmit sound continuously from one location to many possible listeners over the internet. Through these 'streamers', it is possible to tune in to the sound of a forest in Japan or a garden in South London in real-time. For some, live audio streaming is a symptom of the digital shift toward streaming everything. For others, it transforms the act of listening to environments from 'listening to' into 'listening with' allowing for the expansion of geographic borders. The implications of this shift in listening are underexplored both in contemporary sound art practices and in the sonic debates of the environmental and geohumanities.From my position as a professional sound artist and organiser of eight international audio streaming networks, this PhD project will examine contemporary live audio streaming from both scholarly and creative perspectives and will propose a critical framework for 'listening with' environments. The research will unfold through:i) analysis of the work of contemporary live audio streaming practitionersii) interviews with organisers and participants in five major live audio streaming projectsiii) creative practice-based experiments with live audio streamingMy aim is to develop a critical framework and transdisciplinary creative practice that employs live audio streaming as a unique platform for alternative models of listening and responding to environments.