Sonic faction : audio essay as medium and method / edited by Justin Barton, Maya B. Kronic, and Steve Goodman.

"The Sonic Faction project was originally presented at Iklectik on 14 July 2022 and was subsequently developed as an exhibition and event at KARST Contemporary Arts, Plymouth, 4 and 8-11 February 2023." -- Colophon

Foreword / Ben Borthwick -- Introduction / Maya. B Kronic -- Sonic Faction (Discussion) -- Planetary Suffolk / Justin Barton -- To release the unnameable you just dim the lights and then the playback starts / Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Emily Pethick -- Astro-Darien / Steve Goodman -- Footwork/Dreamwork : on recent developments within the hardcore continuum / Matt Colquhoun -- A marker / Robin Mackay -- No returns from White Sea Asylum / Iain Sinclair -- The Westmorland Fells / Justin Barton -- Colour plate section -- An audio walk through the machinic unconscious (interview with Steve Goodman) / Lawrence Lek -- A war of decibels : escalating delusions of the topology of sound / Jessica Edwards -- The acoustic fog of war (interview with Steve Goodman) / Lawrence Abu Hamdan -- What Edward said / Eleni Ikoniadou -- A tidalectic atlas of the plantationocene / Ayesha Hameed -- Tidal / Shelley Trower -- Listening past / Lendl Barcelos -- Arctic anti-radio / Angus Carlyle -- Repetitions of 108 / Paul Nataraj

"With contributors including Justin Barton, Angus Carlyle, Kodwo Eshun, Steve Goodman, Robin Mackay, Paul Nataraj, and Iain Sinclair, Sonic Faction presents extended lines of thought prompted by two Urbanomic events which explored the ways in which sound and voice can produce new sensory terrains and provoke speculative thought. Three recent pieces provide the catalyst for a discussion of the potential of the "audio essay" as medium and method, a machine for intensifying listening and unsettling the boundaries between existing forms: documentary, music, ambient sound, audiobook, field recording, radio play.... Kode9's Astro-Darien (2022) is a sonic fiction about simulation, presenting an alternative history of the Scottish Space Programme, haunted by the ghosts of the British Empire. Justin Barton and Mark Fisher's On Vanishing Land (2006) is a dreamlike account of a coastal walk that expands into questions of modernity, capitalism, fiction, and the micropolitics of escape. Robin Mackay's By the North Sea (2021) is a meditation on time, disappearance, and loss as heard through the fictions of Lovecraft, Ccru, and the spectre of Dunwich, the city that vanished beneath the waves. Alongside photographic documentation of the events and edited transcripts of the artists' discussions, Sonic Faction brings together contributors with diverse perspectives to address the question of the audio essay and to imagine its future." -- Publisher's website (accessed 01/13/2024)

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