Working With Sound
How Do We Sound? is a collaborative project that proposes a mode of experiencing and understanding sound not simply as a backdrop, but as a central component of identity and belonging in an era of saturation, excess, and noise in all of its forms. Here, my student ethnographers and I are interested in documenting and analyzing sound as a direct connection to place-based identity, asking how and why we can (and should) engage with sound as a means of better understanding who we are as inhabitants of late-stage capitalism.
The resulting work forms a unique audio-ethnographic account of our aural being through collecting, analyzing and assembling endemic sounds into interactive anthropological encounters. Earlier examples of this work can be found here.
