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Introduction: Audio Storytelling and the Global South
Get PDFAn introduction to a 10th anniversary special edition of the journal, dedicated to listening to the Global South, and reflecting on the changes in the landscape of audio documentary studies in that last decade
If You Go Down to the Woods Today
Get PDFbook review of The Haunted Wood. A History of Childhood Reading, Sam Leith (Oneworld
from TIME SENSITIVE
Get PDF7 poems from a sequence about time, space, memory, nostalgia and time travel: The Beginner's Guide to Nostalgia, In the House of Dust, Approximate Answers, The Dynamics of Belief, The View from Above, Information Dislocation, Shadow Lines
Truth Recovery: an interview with Lance Olsen
Get PDFLance Olsen is author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing, including, most recently, the novels Skin Elegies (Olsen, 2021) and Always Crashing in the Same Car (Olsen, 2023). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, two-time N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.
This interview is a dialogue about the blurring of fiction and non-fiction, creative writing's place and role in the 21st Century, and Olsen's commitment to experimental writing and his use of processes, concepts and ideas to subvert what many regard as traditional writing and storytelling. It also considers how narrative can be deconstructed, reconfigured, re-constructed and re-invigorated; the possibilities and ethics of remix and appropriation; the failures of mainstream publishing; and how we can or might represent our complex and confusing lives on the page. Olsen's use of (at times oppositional and contradictory) multiple or polyphonic voices, changing points of view, stylistic mutation and contrasting forms, along with a frequent blurring of story, script, prose poetry and stream-of-consciousness writing facilitate and encourage the reader to assemble their own narratives, without this ever being anything other than enjoyable.
It is to be hoped that the interview will encourage and assist others to rethink creative-writing pedagogy, or at least consider the theoretical assumptions behind normative teaching and writing
Haptic Happenings / Gestalt shift
No full textA set of workshops and a public work by 'Haptic Happenings' (Christoforidou and Vaux) is a funded commission from Hospital Rooms.
'Haptic Happenings' is the peripatetic dialogue and communal making of Maria Christoforidou and Viviane Vaux. These workshops and public artwork grew out our own research into art making as mediation and exercise. We have been researching (walking and discussing) philosophies of the haptic. Eastern mediation philosophies, the connections between words, actions and symbols, ancient goddess cultures in production of arts and crafts. The question is how do we bring healing to us? Through everyday actions, somatic attention and community gathering. What is good for the self is good for the community.
Hospital Rooms is collaborating with artists, service users, staff and members of the public with lived experience to create twelve new artworks for the inpatient mental health wards at Camborne Redruth Community Hospital and Bodmin Community Hospital. Together, they transform the wards with artworks made especially for these spaces, and making access to arts and culture central to the treatment of mental illness in Cornwall.
" In autumn we bring our practice in 3 guided workshops to the residents and staff of the Cove Ward, Redruth - drawing as massage, feeling the felt, water coloured arches. We bring calm and presence.
We wanted to promote a settling of the nervous system by paying attention to a felt sense of the body, interpreting our memories of the landscape and its textures, temperatures and light with different art materials and techniques. In the space of making, the hands occupied, the mind quiet, the invitation and question ‘look, what do you see through the arched window?’ was answered in colourful strokes.
She says, walking with the horse, she says the hill, she says the sea, she says I love that blue.
Subtly supported by conversation and materials, we exercise small freedoms choosing colours, shapes and daydreams, guiding us back to a balanced self. In winter we rest. In spring we have to listen and start again.
In summer the final work. The arched window is a metaphor for the mind’s eye. It is a symbol for sacred spaces of peace, protection and reflection. The view through the arches responds to the workshops’ visual responses and the process of cyanotype connects with the social history, care and study of plants. Images of plants caught with light, ignite the imagination, the plant movement, their freshness, their smell their taste. Even in memory the landscape flora has a soothing effect on the physiology of the body. The texture of the photograph stirs the feeling of touch, the haptic captured by the eye.
Yesterday’s Charm, Today’s Precision”: Martin B. Kantola and the design of a new ‘classic’ microphone (Nordic Audio Labs NU-100K)
No full textTransducers play a fundamental role in recorded sound production, and microphone choices are often limited to ‘classic’ models and their modern reinterpretations. The chapter maps Finnish transducer designer Martin B. Kantola’s pursuit to create a ‘new classic’, and a new ‘class’ of a microphone with the NU-100K large diaphragm condenser microphone. Kantola’s transducer quest is mapped as a Deleuzian ‘de-designing’ of the iconic Neumann U 47 large diaphragm tube condenser microphone. Kantola’s design thinking is characterised by nomadic affectivity, where the affective dimension of the transduction and the affinity of transduction to the sonic experience are valued over technical correctness or accuracy of transduction and where microphones and loudspeakers form a system of affective tools or portals that shape and affect both the sounding and listening bodies. The work introduces the idea of affective-critical listening as a key element in Kantola’s ‘voicing’ of transducers, and the chapter concludes by discussing the affective nature of microphones and loudspeakers as tools that shape both the technical and experiential aspects of transduction and how Kantola’s innovation disrupts traditional design processes. The chapter draws from the author’s interviews with Kantola, a site visit to Nordic Audio Labs, historical-contextual research, and microphone user feedback, to examine and situate Kantola’s approach to and innovation in microphone design
Women's Health on Film: A Conversation with Alison Ramsey
Get PDFRamsey is invited to reflect on their response to the cinematic premiere of the ground-breaking short, animated film Why Mums Don't Jump (2023) at La Femme International Film Festival 2023. Why Mums Don't Jump (2023) is a landmark film that depicts - for the first time - the lived experience of pelvic floor prolapse postpartum. Ramsey's own film Menopause: The Movie (dir. Ramsey) exposes the lack of historical data around the lived experience of menopause; using found footage to invite reflection on what those experiences may have been like. Ramsey's personal and filmmaking experience offer insights into the shared struggle for justice in women's health