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这个世界。现在，当我们努力应对气候崩溃的影响时，我们比以往任何时候都更需要故事。然而，事实证明，讲述当今动荡的故事是有问题的；作家阿米塔夫·高希（Amitav Ghosh）认为，气候变化可能会对语言产生抵制，并谈到需要混合类型（Ghosh 2016）。我的研究混合了故事叙述和听觉音乐*，探索听觉叙述作为一种协作创作实践方法的令人兴奋的可能性，以此来理解、反思和交流当今的危机。叙事，在听觉故事中，通过录音的口语和合成的声音场景的“多层组合和共存”来呈现（Amelides 2016）。修辞学家认为，由于声音的时间和振动性质，它在沟通当前“不稳定的经验”方面特别有用（Comstock和Hocks 2016）。声学作曲家谈到了录制声音传达直接体验的能力，例如，录制的降雨可以唤起被雨淋的体验（Andean 2014），而无实体的声音似乎可以直接对听众说话。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共同组成，目的是开发、测试和完善一个“决策”框架。每个合作作曲家将带来专业知识和/或个人经验的组成的主题正在工作，并将充分归功于他们对这项研究的贡献。本研究将为声学领域做出新的贡献；协作、讲故事和考虑录制（参考）声音的伦理含义在该领域基本上未被探索。*原声音乐是在作曲工作室中录制和/或转换声音，然后通过扬声器呈现给观众；它以有力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.