Binaural Radio Rural #11 - An Archive is a Place: Exploring the when and the where of an archive (1)

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We are pleased to present a new series on our Binaural Radio Rural podcast, entitled “An Archive is a Place: The Wayback Sound Machine in a Rural Archive”. "Exploring the when and the where of an archive, part I" By Maile Colbert "In this podcast series, I'm exploring the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive: gathering and sharing recordings from its vast collection, remixing and re-contextualizing as an art form, with consideration and empathy to their original context…an outsider invited in to explore, witness, and process. Then share. I am exploring how the concepts and methodologies of how my virtual research and practice tool, the Wayback Sound Machine, can be used to explore a virtual place, the digital archive of Binaural/Nodar. The Wayback Sound Machine asks: what can we gather from sounding the past? It proposes that the relationship between our soundscape and creative sound design can give us key information about how we listen, what we listen for, and what that can tell us. It researches various forms of sound from the past, and designing sound for the past, to consider what knowledge and applications can be gained from the concept, and so, it is very much at home in archives, but it does not explore the archives in a linear or historic manner. It explores the archives as a living and fluid place, a complex and ever forming, ever changing place where the present can be welcomed to explore and effect, their changes becoming a part of its constant and sensible evolution. As Salomé Voegelin states so beautifully, “A sonic sensibility makes thinkable complex connections and trajectories in time and space.” (Voegelin, 2010, p. xvi): “Can an archive be a Place? Somewhere between the virtual and the actual, a place we can visit, interpret, shape with our perception and art. Somewhere we can find connection, and be connected, be changed by an experience, and leave something in return.”" Maile Colbert is an intermedia artist, researcher, and educator with a focus on time-based media. She is a PhD Research Fellow in Artistic Studies with a concentration on Sound Studies, cinematic sound design, and its relationship with soundscape ecology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a visiting lecturer at the Universidade da Maia, Porto. Her current practice and research project is titled, Wayback Sound Machine: Sound through time, space, and place, and asks what we might gather from sounding the past. She is a collaborator with the art organization Binaural Nodar, a member of CineLab, research lab for cinema and philosophy and is an editor and author at Sonic Field. She has exhibited, screened, and performed globally.