I will be using this blogpost to make apparent how I see my creative soundwork relating to the subject of my essay.
At the core of my research lays the question of authenticity, along with immediacy and intimacy. Sound often claims
I have a troubled relationship with authenticity. What stories am I trying to tell? What stories am I allowed to tell? What is my position?
Sound carries this expectancy of immediacy. Like it somehow guarantees access to a sort of pure experience. This I found articulated beautifully In Angus Carlyle’s lecture: ‘Every experience is mediated. There is no reservoir of pristine experiences.’
This becomes particularly true in the post-digital world we inhabit.
Last semester I looked into ASMR and performative intimacy online. I was interested in what we consider organic and real sonically.
I slowly started to consider that these ‘unmediated experiences’ may not be possible. What then replaces authenticity? Or the perception of it?
Artists such as Holly Herndon, SOPHIE,