Psychosocial Sonic Mapping: Liberation Through Listening - Towards Embodied Emancipation Using Sound and Music

 

Join us for this experiential session using an evocative "thinking aloud" and "listening together" participatory framework to introduce, demonstrate and critically engage with the concept and process of psychosocial sonic mapping, exploring its transformative and emancipatory potential through the alternative social "hearing" that emerges.
An original phenomenological creative approach, psychosocial sonic mapping involves assembling fragments of the music, sounds and silences that have surrounded and shaped us from birth. This includes multi-sensorial reflecting on our intimate relationships to sound objects (e.g. the voice, instruments, the body, radio) and articulating 'felt' experience. Through exploring the resulting audio collages, it aims to interrogate how our musical influences, values and beliefs can be harnessed to disrupt patterns of social inequity and used to practise radical empathy. Envisioned as both diffractive pedagogical tool and artistic practice, work to date has indicated that this concept could also have therapeutic and wellbeing benefits.
How do the ‘inner’ constellations of our sound and musical memories, listening habits and aural experiences resonate with the ‘outer’ soundscape of a world in crisis?
Together, through call and response, vignette sharing and sound clouding, we will examine our sonic maps and constructed musical worlds as embodied, multi-temporal and multi-generational realms of knowing.
Listening to music and sound for traces of our musical inheritances from our homes, families and community spaces will allow us to mutually reflect on the entangled relationships, including the social reproduction of hierarchies of power/inequality, that emerge in our sonic present.
In preparation, we ask you to reflect on the following question:
What does a world where Black lives matter sound like?

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