Conversations on Sound and Power
March International
Beginning in December 2021 and continuing to the present, Conversations on Sound and Power gathers dialogic exchanges from a wide variety of contemporary artists, scholars, and activists concerned with the sonic dimensions of social life and sound’s role in the structuring and transformation of political life. As an ongoing social project “Conversations on Sound and Power” documents of the insights and thinking of partitioners who have dedicated themselves to the deep tensions that make acoustic worlding so impactful. The conversations reflect our commitment to treating ideas and methodologies as temporarily stewarded rather than privately held intellectual property. Stewardship in this sense includes an open form of sharing, circulation, and enlivening — a shaping and tending to the activist and theoretical spaces where new histories, concepts, practices, and conviviality can flourish and be transmitted to others. Each of these dialogues has been shaped by our dutiful and creative engagement with the work of the invitees. Their practices, artworks, scholarship, and writing has inspired our own.
