COMPOSING RESONANCE offers an important new cultural and rhetorical framework for situated sonic practices. Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks demonstrate how sound artists and musicians' ritualized practices of embodied listening create an acute sense of presence, evoke multiple pasts, and powerfully contribute to our experience of location, personal soundscapes, and identity in time and space. Such sonic practices also offer important lessons for writing and composition students.
The sound artists and musicians Comstock and Hocks study have developed practices for resonating with and shaping this vibrant medium, including priming the ear/body to receive diverse sounds and exchanging them within and across cultures and communities. These sonic practices have helped students understand sound as a powerful, often flawed, location device, and record and remix sound elements to move the self and others toward a richer, more diverse, multispecies, interrelational sense of place, culture, history, and environment.
Composing Resonance: Culture and Collaboration in Sonic Practices by Michelle Comstock and Mary Hocks, Parlor Press, 2024. Published as part of the New Media Theory series, edited by Byron Hawk.
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