SPLP2: Urban and Domestic Listenings: Peter Cusack and Elise ‘t Hart

Radio ArtEZ

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so. In this second episode we focus on urban and domestic sounds with field recordist, musician and researcher Peter Cusack and sound artist Elise ‘t Hart.

Shownotes

Reading

• Cusack, Peter, Berlin Sonic Places: A Brief Guide (Wolke Verlag)
• Cusack, Peter, Sounds From Dangerous Places (ReR Megacorp, 2011)
• Voegelin, Salomé, Listening to Noise and Silence

Links

• Peter Cusack: https://www.crisap.org/people/peter-cusack/
• Favourite Sounds: https://www.favouritesounds.org/
• Sounds From Dangerous Places: https://www.sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/
• Elise ‘t Hart: https://www.elisethart.com/

Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck