Precarity and Voice: Articulated Architectures of Dispossession

这个博士项目通过空间录音、作曲、写作和纪录片来研究住房作为一种生活的社会经济经验和声音之间的交集，因为它在家中被具体化、共享、听到和表达。在“一个长期不安全和不平等日益加剧的时代”（Standing, 2011），声音是一个见证和避难所——它承载着环境对我们影响的痕迹，并承载着我们应对环境影响的机构的重量。以Brandon Le Belle的“糟糕声学”、Jacqueline Waldock的“感官民族志”以及Cara Tolmie和Evan Ifekoya等人的声音实践为基础，本博士结合了位于Guardian Properties等地点的双声录音和声乐合唱，以及环绕声多声装置、写作和传统的纪录片技术——包括口头证词——来询问个人声音如何通过不稳定的建筑与集体声音联系起来。以及这会给居民和社区带来什么样的社会政治影响。虽然目前关于声音听觉/具体化和不稳定性及其影响的理论方法在人文学科中激增，并且声学生态学等领域的重要声学研究使人们能够理解个体如何构成有限的自我，通过建筑与社区联系，目前仍明显缺乏以实践为基础的艺术研究，将这些主题结合在一起，以找到对这一紧迫问题的应用和重要见解。将声学研究和口头证词与情感、神经科学、神经/听觉多样性研究、音乐和声音艺术进行对话，将为我的空间声音、写作和纪录片实践提供理论基础；两者都弥补了这一空白，并产生了跨越不同领域/学科的新知识途径。

This doctoral project investigates, through spatial sound recording, composition, writing, and documentary - intersections between housing as a lived socio-economic experience and voice as it is embodied, shared, heard and articulated within the home. In 'an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities' (Standing, 2011) the voice is a site of testimony and refuge - it bears the trace of our environment's impact on us, and carries the weight of our agency in response to it. Building on Brandon Le Belle's 'poor acoustics', Jacqueline Waldock's 'sensory ethnography' and the sonic practice of among others Cara Tolmie and Evan Ifekoya - this PhD combines situated ambisonic voice recording and vocal choirs in locations such as Guardian Properties, with surround-sound polyvocal installation, writing, and traditional documentary techniques - including oral testimony - to ask how individual voice connects with collectives through precarious architecture, and what forms of socio-political impact this creates for the individual inhabitant and communities.While current theoretical approaches to both voice hearing/embodiment and precarity and its effects proliferate within the humanities, and significant acoustic research within fields such as acoustic ecologies has enabled an understanding of how individuals are constituted as bounded selves, connecting with communities through architecture, there remains a distinct lack of practice-based artistic research that brings these subjects together to find applied and important insights to this urgent problem. Drawing acoustic research and oral testimony into conversation with affect, neuroscience/s, neuro/auraldiversity studies, music, and sonic art will provide the theoretical foundations for my situated spatial sound, writing and documentary practice; both to redress this lacuna and produce new knowledge pathways that traverse diverse fields/disciplines.