Binaural Radio Rural #13 - An Archive is a Place: (Re)presentations

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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”. In this podcast series, artist and researcher Maile Colbert is 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. "(Re)presentations" By Maile Colbert "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? In Podcast number 3, I am exploring more specifically, and artistically, representations of the past, both in the rural archive, as well as with the first two podcasts...literally expanding and remixing the underscore to see what forms. The Wayback Sound Machine is a multimodal project investigating various theories of audition and perception of sound in time and place and proposes an interdisciplinary connective aurality between the perception of sound in time and place with soundscapes and sound designs. The relationship between our soundscapes and creative sound designs can give us key information about how we listen, what we listen for, and what that can tell us…but the goal is not an answer, but rather towards, as artist and writer Salomé Voegelin (2010) states in her own Introduction to Listening to Noise and Silence, Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, “…no real conclusions but only strategies for engagement and efforts of interpretation”. (p. xiii)" 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.