PATTER(N)INGS, Apt. 3B, 2020: sound as affective space for world-building
2021 (English)In: Texts of discomfort: Interactive Storytelling Art / [ed] María Cecilia Reyes; James Pope, Pittsburgh, PA USA: ETC Press, 2021, p. 282-312Chapter in book (Refereed) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
In our chapter, we reflect on our design of PATTER(N)INGS: Apt 3B, 2020, an interactive audio experience expressing some of the anxieties and challenges of living in and through 2020+ during a global pandemic in lockdown state. Our web-based audio application simulates a domestic space and its embodied inhabitants (human, non-human, and other) as encountered by a single user (or “eavesdropper”). The pandemic world we evoke is both specific and timeless, located and transhi- storical, in its remixing of literary materials and other sonic agents that destabilize fixed subject identities and rational cognitive states in favor of affective, ontological ones. We draw on theore- tical influences from critical posthumanism, feminist new materialism and non-human narrative as well work in electroacoustic musical composition and audio experimentation. We document our process of generative dynamic world-building and interactive digital storytelling as formulated though distributed agencies/embodiments, fragmentation (literary and sonic), affective acoustic space-making, and psychoacoustic manipulation.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Pittsburgh, PA USA: ETC Press, 2021. p. 282-312
Keywords [en]
affect, interactive audio narrative, acoustic space, world-building, posthumansim, non-human narrative, embodiment
National Category
Humanities and the Arts General Literature Studies Computer Sciences Music
Research subject
Media, Technology and Culture (MTEC)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20795ISBN: 978-1-7948-8071-9 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-20795DiVA, id: diva2:1621368
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