Visiting, Weaving, and Modulating Sonic Expanses and Rhythms - Tuning, Improvisation, and Environmental Aesthetics — WI, Journal of Mobile Media, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2015, Concordia University Montreal, York University Toronto. (original) (raw)

2015, WI, Journal of Mobile Media, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2015, Ed. Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), Concordia University Montreal, York University Toronto. http://wi.mobilities.ca/

We shape the environment that shapes us. What we discern as an auditorium and a listening space is now overflowing the specific physical structures and architecture (concert halls, venues, etc.) towards enlarged sensory enveloping forms. It appears as a hybridisation of actions and spaces where tactics such as collective-driven, individual weavings, embedding mobility and spaces/places visits, all contribute to the everyday experience. When we collaborate and oscillate with the environment, within mobility, by modulating and interacting with sonic expanses and continuities of the properties of the places, we listen to more than what we hear. It is not merely a question of positions and of trajectories of presences and bodies in an environment (visual, sonic, animated, landscape, ambiance, venue, concert hall, at home, with earphones, etc.). It is continuous and immediate actions of attention through mobility or of mobilised attention (to act in the now, to be aware of the now), of lithe, flexible, and absentminded exchanges and weavings with the fields of the sensible; of mobile versus immobile reality; of oscillations between the “possible” and the “real”. This generates aesthetics of experiential situations and creative, participative spatialisation experiences in our sonic environment. Thus, we need to explore and to consider a larger notion of auditorium that we are modulating and playing.