The Postatomic Ear: A practice-based study of sound and atmospheric effects in the Nuclear Age.

作为一种大气效应，声音不断地移动、操纵、激发、传播，并与我们周围环境中的其他可感知元素直接互动。在核时代初期，Trinity核试验使这种联系成为焦点，爆炸产生了一波声音，热量和放射性尘埃，撕裂了美国新墨西哥州的沙漠。在这一时刻之后的几年里，核时代继续被热效应的叙述所定义;在一代人的时间里，人类监督了从“冷战”的恐惧和怀疑到面对全球变暖的行星危机的冷漠和欺骗的转变。虽然热能和核能继续被联系在一起，并被视为迫在眉睫的威胁，但在后原子世界的社会框架内，声音作为一个影响因素被广泛忽视。随着与核有关的基于声音的技术的扩散，例如在放射照相术和外科手术中使用超声波，以及新的声波武器和雷达技术，旨在相互作用，破坏，消毒和控制，现在是时候考虑后原子听音装置的社会影响了吗？如果是这样的话，这种“后体耳”的含义是什么？将声音艺术实践集中在这个概念上，可以更好地理解听觉如何影响我们对环境的感知？

As an atmospheric effect, sound continually moves, manipulates, excites, travels and interacts directly with other perceptible elements within our surroundings. At the inception of the Nuclear Age, the Trinity nuclear test brought this connection into focus with a detonation that produced a wave of sound, heat and radioactive fallout that tore across the deserts of New Mexico, USA. In the years subsequent to this moment, the Nuclear Age has continued to be defined by a narrative of thermal effects; within a generation, humankind oversaw a transition from the fear and suspicion of the 'Cold War' to apathy and deception in the face of a planetary crisis of global warming. While the thermal and the nuclear continue to be linked and perceived as an imminent threat, the audible has been widely ignored as an influencing factor within the societal framework of a postatomic world. With the proliferation of sound-based technologies associated with the nuclear, such as the use of ultrasound in radiography and surgical procedures and with new sonic weaponry and radar technologies, designed to interact, disrupt, sterilise and control, is it time to consider the social implications of a postatomic listening device? If so, what are the implications of this 'Postatomic Ear' and can focussing a sound arts practice on this concept, lead to a better understanding of how the audible can influence our perception of our environment?