Al's XPUB2 thesis outline

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Guidelines

_What do you want to write? (Personal interest, curiosity)
_What mode of address do you want? How do you want your text to speak to the reader?
_What form(at) should your thesis have? (The mode of address dictates the form: essayistic, academic, narrative, non-linear, glossary, script, diary, field report etc.) - or a combination of several of them
_What are your 3 key issues / key research questions? (Each key issue could lead to a chapter outline)
_1500 words

Draft

// thesis outline to be delivered on 18-11-2022 // wip
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About

(Deep Listening) Sound Jams: Method of Producing Collective Sound Based Publication is an exploration of experiments for collaborative making of sound publications. The thesis will follow the process of testing various combinations of tools, exercies and ideas for facilitation of sound jams. It will document and explain the experiments as well as the research learnings. It will try to systemise the non-linear collection of tools and exercises.

The key issues I am interested in researching, are:
_1 // listen & respond - how deep listening is shaping the collective approach to sound-making?
_2 // what tools are there to collectively make/create sound-based publication?
_3 // what does it make it a publication - how to share/make public the collective sound creation?

• issue: what is the bridge between sound-making and sound-publishing in this method/process?

Mode of Address

The tone of address will be informal. I plan to use simple and straightforward language to communicate the process and learning outcomes in a clear way. I will address the reader, a fellow artist, facilitator or educator, as a partner in looking for ways to expand our artistic practice with new mediums and tools.

Format

The thesis will be a documentation of the process of creating the handbook. As such, it will be a mixture of non-linear report, diary/journal, with glossary and visual translation.

Structure

Introduction

Introduction to the thesis and the project. In this chapter, I will unpack the meaning behind the key terms I am using for this project. Starting with the title, I will visit the meaning of the words and explain how they connect in this method.
What is the intention and purpose of the thesis: documentation of the process to create a method and its handbook.
Deep Listening Sound Jams: Method of Producing Collective Sound-Based Publication - exploring tools:
_exploring - trying out different tools to facilitate a collective sound making process based on deep listening - creating different combinations of ways to make collectively
_method - a collection of tools (modular, codified); but is it a method? What makes a method, a method?
_producing/making - collective production and/or making practice exploration
_collective - the importance of collective making; exploring collective publishing practices
_sound-based - focus on sound as a core medium for the publication
_publication - the act of making the sound-based outcome public, to share it - what is the act of publishing, a public moment is not only in the end, the moment when you share something; how does making connect to publishing?
_sound jam - what do I mean by sound jams?

Method

Glossary

Making

Publishing

Bibliography

WIP - what informs the research

reads

Oliveros, P., 2005. Deep Listening. New York. Deep Listening Publications. [annotated pad]
adrienne maree brown, 2019. Pleasure Activism. The Politics of Feeling Good. Chico, Edinburgh. AK Press. [annotated pad]
Evens, A., 2005. Sound Ideas: Music, Machines & Experience. U of Minnesota Press [annotated pad]
Kreidler, J., 2013. loadbang. Programming Electronic Music in Pure Data. 2nd edition. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag.
Weiss, A., 2001. Experimental Sound & Radio. The MIT Press.
Groot, M., 2019. The Amateur's Armour. [online] Available at: <https://underbelly.nu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Amateurs-Armour.pdf> [Accessed 11 October 2022].

sound publications

Brown, A. R., 2022. Beneath Maiwar.[online] Available at: <https://www.explodingart.com/arb/2022/06/28/beneath-maiwar/> [Accessed 30 September 2022]. [annotated pad]
Nagy, A., 2018. Hackpact / Sonification Studies. [online] Available at: <https://stc.github.io/HackPact/> [Accessed 30 September 2022]. [annotated pad]