What is Sounding Modernity? In a nutshell, every sunday in 2023 I’m going to publish a 5 minute sound art work comprised pof field recording, soundscapes compositions, narration and silence, lots of silence, en francais and in english, that explores how we listen modernity, topics such acceptance, aesthetics, appropriation, collapse, complicity, despair, entanglement, exploitation, failure, fiction, hope (maybe also hopelessness) humour, kindness, unlistening, reciprocity, resilience, separability, validation, violence, worlding and many more I haven’t thought of yet. Every week will be a new opportunity to create a dialogue for shared learning and unlearning.
Welcome to episode 0 of season four of the conscient podcast, Sounding Modernity, five-minute sound meditations, published every Sunday from January 1 through December 31, 2023.
My name is Claude Schryer and I'm happy to be back podcasting about art and the ecological crisis after a 10 month break.
I'm talking to you today from the unceded traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, also known as Ottawa, where my family and I are grateful to live.
Veuillez prendre note qu’une version en français de cet épisode et de toute la saison 4 est disponible sur le canal balado conscient et sur Youtube.
So, what is Sounding Modernity?
In a nutshell, every sunday in 2023 I’m going to publish a 5 minute sound art work comprised pof field recording, soundscapes compositions, narration and silence, lots of silence, en francais and in english, that explores how we listen modernity, topics such acceptance, aesthetics, appropriation, collapse, complicity, despair, entanglement, exploitation, failure, fiction, hope (maybe also hopelessness) humour, kindness, unlistening, reciprocity, resilience, separability, validation, violence, worlding and many more I haven’t thought of yet. Every week will be a new opportunity to create a dialogue for shared learning and unlearning, learning and unlearning, learning, unlearning.
Overall the idea is to ‘stay with the trouble’ as Dr. Donna J. Haraway suggests.
At the end of each episode you’ll be asked to ponder a question - to think about a complex issue - and if you feel comfortable, you can respond on conscient.ca to the question, in any way you wish : with words, images, sounds, video, etc. I will respond to all submissions.
My hope is that we find a way, together, to navigate our way out of modernity’s trappings and to create, step by step, the conditions for other worlds to emerge.
Let me give you an example of an episode. This is the trailer for episode 1, of season 4, which is actually episode 101 of the entire podcast series. It’s called tension and what you’ll hear is the question that i mentioned earlier.
Now I won’t get into some of the references and theoretical underpinnings of this project however I invite you to read a blog I wrote about the project on conscient.ca.
In terms of promotion I’ll be using social media etc which you are welcome to share but I think the best way to promote this kind of project is through word of mouth so If you like what you hear, please tell your friends and colleagues.
You’ll find links to subscribe to the weekly conscient newsletter, conscient podcast in English, au balado conscient en francais, to the conscient YouTube channel and to the conscient podcast Facebook and instagram pages at subscribe.
I want to end this intro by warmly thanking my collaborators and also the Canada Council, Strategic Innovation Fund Seed grant for their support of this project.
You can reach me at claude@conscient.ca
Thanks for listening and I hope to hear from you during the season.