Composing Acousmatic Stories: Hybrid strategies for exploring change, crisis and community through collaborative creative practice

人类总是用故事来理解世界。现在，随着我们努力应对气候崩溃的影响，我们比以往任何时候都更需要故事。然而，讲述当今剧变的故事被证明是有问题的；作家阿米塔夫·戈什认为气候变化可能抵抗语言，并谈到需要混合体裁(Ghosh 2016)。我的研究将讲故事和声学音乐*混合在一起，探索了声学讲故事作为一种合作创造性实践的方法的令人兴奋的可能性，用来理解、反思和沟通当今的危机。在声学故事中，叙事是通过记录的口语单词和合成的声音场景的“多层组合和共存”来呈现的(Amelides 2016)。由于声音的时间和振动性质，医生描述声音媒介在传达当前的“不稳定的经历”方面特别有用(Comstock和Hock 2016)。声学作曲家谈到了录音传达直接经验的能力，例如，录音的降雨量可以唤起被下雨的体验(安第斯2014)，而无形的声音似乎可以直接与听众对话。关于海平面上升和生物多样性丧失等主题的五个声学故事将被联合创作，目的是开发、测试和完善‘决策’框架。每位合作作曲家将把专业知识和/或个人经验带到正在创作的作品的主题中，并将因他们对这项研究的贡献而受到充分赞扬。这项研究将对声乐领域做出新的贡献；在该领域内，合作、讲故事和考虑录制(参考)声音的伦理含义在很大程度上是未曾探索的。*声乐是在作曲室中创作的，带有录制的和/或转换的声音，然后通过扩音器呈现给观众；它以强大而诗意的方式处理声音。

Human beings have always used stories to make sense of the world. Now, as we struggle to cope with the effects of climate breakdown, we need stories more than ever. However, telling stories about present-day upheavals is proving problematic; writer Amitav Ghosh suggests that climate change may be resistant to language and talks of a need for hybrid genres (Ghosh 2016).My research hybridises both storytelling and acousmatic music*, exploring the exciting possibilities of acousmatic storytelling as a method of collaborative creative practice with which to understand, reflect upon and communicate present day crises. Narrative, within the acousmatic story, is presented through the 'combination and coexistence of multiple layers' of recorded spoken word and composed sound scenes (Amelides 2016).Rhetoricians describe the medium of sound as especially useful in communicating current 'volatile experiences', due to its temporal and vibrational nature (Comstock and Hocks 2016). Acousmatic composers talk of recorded sound's ability to convey direct experience, for example, recorded rainfall can evoke the experience of being rained on (Andean 2014) and the disembodied voice can seemingly be speaking directly to the listener.Five acousmatic stories, on subjects such as rising sea levels and loss of biodiversity, will be co-composed for the purpose of developing, testing and refining a 'decision making' framework. Each co-composer will bring expert know-how and/or personal experience to the subject of the composition being worked on and will be fully credited for their contributions to this research.This research will make novel contributions to the field of acousmatic music; collaboration, storytelling and the consideration of ethical implications of recorded (referential) sounds have been largely unexplored within the field.*Acousmatic music is composed in a composition studio, with recorded and/or transformed sounds, before being presented to audiences using loudspeakers; it deals with sound in powerful and poetic ways.