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

气候危机通常表现为森林大火、洪水和干旱景观的壮观画面。然而，它也有声音：它记录在地球物理震动、波动风暴的声波信号以及生物多样性正在萎缩的景观的沉默中。声音是一种强大的媒介，通过它可以在不同的尺度上描绘、感受和体验人与环境之间的关系。这个以实践为基础的博士项目探索了跨艺术和科学的基于健全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。这将通过以下方式实现：对艺术和科学中的声波实践进行调查；与三个率先使用声波研究气候变化的实验室进行实地考察；以及与这些实地考察相联系的三个声波艺术成果。实地考察将在以下地点进行：康奈尔大学的保护生物声学中心，科学家利用声音研究生物多样性和气候变化之间的关系；圣地亚哥大学的地球物理和行星物理研究所，科学家在那里听取强大风暴的声音；皇家霍洛威大学的第四纪研究中心，地理学家在那里调查巴塔哥尼亚安第斯山脉的冰川声音。通过对这些科学方法的深入参与，该项目将产生三件原创的声音艺术品，以应对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、以实践为基础的项目将调查环境数据的交流，并探索声音如何引起公众对气候危机的反应。作为拟议实地工作地点的第一次以艺术为基础的环境声音调查，该项目将解决艺术家和科学家如何使用声音方面的一个空白，并将对声音艺术、文化地理学和地理人文科学方面的知识作出原创性的贡献。

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.