Soundscaping Our Interdependence
Using Sonic Objects
In this workshop, participants are invited to engage in the production of a sonic landscape in collaboration with others. No musical experience is necessary. Working together with Graham Barton (University of the Arts London), we explore how making sound together facilitates personal and collective development.
As a mode of engagement, making sound offers a means to listen and to act. The workshop's process is designed to accommodate multiple ways of making sound in an improvised group context, using sonic objects to disrupt the sense of individual agency and explore how we attune with others. Surprising, frustrating, addictive and compelling, the workshop brings attention to the temporal aspect of our changing relations.
Graham's background in music and arts education informs his exploration of learning styles while Melissa focuses on the affective aspects of sonic and rhythmic (dis)attunement, and offers spaces for freely associated responses in a multimodal setting, and a broader integration of self in sonic relation.
Graham and Melissa have brought their collaboration to Edinburgh for UNESCO's Week of Sound (2023) and to Helsinki for the 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (2024), which focused on Participation, Collaboration and Co-Creation.
Soundscaping can be experienced as a one off exploration or returned to iteratively as a means of working through knots and difficulties in a group dynamic, using sonic objects rather than spoken language. We therefore recommend a minimum of half a day (3.5 hours) for a memorable and conceptually rich introductory experience and up two days (not necessarily consecutive) of deepening exploration together, to work therapeutically with group dynamics using sound .
For more information and to book, contact me.
