Distributed Listening - socially engaged art

8个月的Impact提案建立在AHRC过去资助的对网络音乐表演的研究基础上。这些成果在这里适用于参与式剧场。主要影响包括使剧院从业者和参与社区能够参与网络音乐表演战略/技术，这些战略/技术通常只在高等教育机构提供。这种接触将对声音、日常生活和移动传输技术之间的关系产生革命性的影响。作为一名音乐家和理论家，PI调查了表演者在不同物理空间的情况下如何一起创作音乐，特别是他们如何相互倾听。这项研究使用了不同类型的音乐符号(3D渲染图形、即兴策略、图形配乐)。PI进行了大约20种不同类型的网络表演，包括在虚拟世界中与音乐家一起表演。演奏不同类型音乐的经历(严格标记的爵士曲调、有指导的即兴演奏、图形配乐和完全自由的即兴创作)导致了这样的问题：在每个地方都有几个城市与音乐家联系在一起的情况下，谁来领导、指挥或做出决定。研究发现，另一位表演者的身体缺席使音乐家能够密切关注与他们的乐器、他们的呼吸和手势的关系；最后，它要求表演者以完全不同的方式倾听，这就是PI术语的分布式或网络倾听。在网络中，音乐家们可以听到自己的声音，也可以听到远程表演者的声音，也可以听到通过网络传播的声音，由于技术基础设施往往很脆弱，这可能会让人“紧张不安”。这个网络揭示了存在于“这里”与“那里”之间、“自我”与“他人”之间、“倾听”与“被倾听”之间以及身体与乐器之间的微妙差别。这项影响建议旨在将这种脆弱的倾听方式--“分布式倾听”--提取到设备齐全的大学环境之外的环境中。因此，我们将为移动设备(智能手机)开发一款定制的应用程序，让年轻的社区参与者探索这种倾听，同时使他们能够在分布式环境中一起玩耍和创造。我们已经与两家剧院公司合作，贝尔法斯特的抒情剧院和曼彻斯特的第42街。第42街是一家青少年心理健康慈善机构，为有心理健康问题的青少年提供创新服务。这两家公司都定期与社区参与者合作，实践“社会参与艺术”，这是一种积极的公民身份，是一种旨在影响社会变革的艺术，由艺术家主导，以参与者为重点。这两家剧院公司都确定了20名年轻人，他们每人将在8周的研讨会上学习使用这款应用，以创作一部基于“分布式倾听”的创意戏剧作品。每个城市都将使用定制的应用程序创建特定于背景的工作。每个社区团体都将在2016年展示他们的工作。一名视频艺术家将陪同两家公司的工作流程，为项目网站上的文档创建视频日记。这款定制的应用程序还将在支持该项目的科学节上与北爱尔兰的学童进行为期一天的动手研讨会。该项目的最后部分包括一个影响会议，来自曼彻斯特和贝尔法斯特的所有参与者将在会上会面，并将与受邀的行业演讲者一起分享该项目的创意成果，包括视频日记、有记录的展示案例和应用程序设计。该项目是在指定的剧院公司、PI、Co-I、科学节、Art&Business NI和伦敦青年Vic之间的密切沟通中开发的，以确保尽可能产生最大的影响和知名度。

The 8 month impact proposal builds on past AHRC funded research into network music performance. Those results are here applied in a participatory theatre context. The main impacts consist of enabling theatre practitioners and participating communities to engage in network music performance strategies/technologies, normally only available in HE institutions. This engagement will have transformative qualities for relationships between sound, everyday life and mobile transmission technologies. The PI, a musician and theorist, investigated how performers make music together when not in the same physical space, specifically how they listen to each other. This research used different types of musical notation (3D rendered graphics, improvisational strategies, graphic scores). The PI carried out ca. 20 different types of network performances including performing with musicians in a virtual world. The experience of playing different types of music (strictly notated jazz tunes, guided improvisation, graphically scored music and entirely free improvisations) led to questions of who leads, conducts or makes decisions in a situation where several cities are connected with musicians in each place. It was found that physical absence of another performer allows musicians to focus closely on the relation with their instrument, their breathing and gestures; and finally, it ask performers to listen in quite different ways, what the PI terms 'distributed or network[ed] listening'. In the network musicians listen to their own sounds, to the sounds of remote performers, but also to sounds circulated through the network, which can be 'jittery' due to often fragile technical infrastructure. The network reveals subtle differences between being 'here' and 'there', between the 'self' and the 'other', between 'listening' and 'being listened to' and between body and instrument. This impact proposal aims to extract such type of fragile listening, 'distributed listening', to an environment outside the well-equipped university context. Therefore, we will develop a custom-designed app for mobile devices (smart phones) that allows young community participants to explore such listening, while at the same time enabling them to play and create together in a distributed setting. We have teamed up with two theatre companies, the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and 42nd Street, Manchester. 42nd Street is a young people's mental health charity providing innovative services to young people with mental health problems. Both companies regularly work with community participants, practising 'socially engaged arts', a form of active citizenship, art that intends to effect social change, that is artist-led and participant focussed. Both theatre companies have identified 20 young adults each who, during 8 weeks workshops will learn to use the app in order to create a creative theatre piece based on the idea of 'distributed listening'. Each city will create a context specific work, using the custom-designed app. Each community group will showcase their work in 2016. A video artist will accompany both companies' working processes, creating video diaries for documentation on the project's website. The custom-designed app will also be used for a one day of hands-on workshops with school children in Northern Ireland, taking place at the Science Festival, which is supporting this project. The final part of the project includes an impact conference where all participants from Manchester and Belfast will meet, and, alongside invited industry speakers, will share the project's creative outcomes, including the video diaries, the documented showcases and the app design.The project was developed in close communication between the named theatre companies, the PI, Co-I, the Science Festival, Arts & Business NI and the Young Vic, London, to ensure greatest possible impact and visibility.