Study Group on Images, Sounds and Technologies (GEIST)
The International Conference on Research in Sonorities (CIPS) is an initiative of the Study Group on Images, Sonorities and Technologies (GEIST)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MARIE THOMPSON
(The Open University - UK)
Marie Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at The Open University, UK. She is the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (Bloomsbury, 2017). From 2020-2024 she led the Arts and Humanities Research Council project Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts. Thompson is also a founding member (with Annie Goh) of Sonic Cyberfeminisms, a project that uses the legacies and histories of cyberfeminism to critically and creatively interrogate the relationships between gender, technology and auditory culture. Thompson plays in the flute-oboe noise duo Notintone with Rebecca Lee.
Lecture theme: Tinnitus’ silences
Silence is often invoked in discussions and depictions of tinnitus, where it holds multiple meanings and affective resonances. Tinnitus is both silent (in the sense it is imperceptible to others) and silenced (in the sense that it is rarely acknowledged or discussed). Tinnitus is often imagined as prohibiting, or even ‘silencing’ silence; while silence can act a form of amplification, making tinnitus increasingly audible. Drawing on creative expressions of tinnitus developed as part of the research project Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts, this talk will map out tinnitus’ multiple connections to silence and, in so doing, consider its implications for theorizations of auditory culture.
ROSÂNGELA PEREIRA DE TUGNY
(Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia - BR)
Rosângela Pereira de Tugny is a tenured professor at the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia in Porto Seguro, a researcher at CNPq and a permanent professor in the Graduate Programs in Arts at UFSB and Music at UFMG. She conducts research on the songs of Amerindian peoples, including sound recording and documentation. In co-authorship with Tikmũ’ũn specialists, she has published books/DVDs and bilingual films translating some of their mythical, poetic and musical repertoires, as well as books and articles on the themes of music, shamanism and cosmopolitics, musical diversity and the aesthetics of indigenous peoples. She coordinates the Amerindian Poetics research group. She is currently conducting research on the biographies and books of masters of traditional communities and specialists in Amerindian songs, and coordinates the Hãmhi | Terra Viva, an initiative that aims to train agroforestry agents from the Tikmũ’ũn people who lead processes of implementing backyards and forest restoration on their lands.
Lecture theme: For the animals to return singing happily...
How do we perceive the capitalocene acoustically? How do life forms manifest themselves sonically? How can we listen to life or its silencing? The experience of bringing the forest back to the Tikmũ’ũn is above all the return of the songs of the animals, which are themselves affection and enchantment in the ontology and listening of these peoples.