Audioblast #9 Seminar

 

“The physical and environmental attributes of landscapes often shape patterns of population connectivity”

This years Audioblast festival explores the theme of Divergent Landscapes

In the wake of multiple lock-downs, transforming city centers into wildlife friendly zones whilst simultaneously separating urban populations from accessing nature, our experiences of landscape has become mediated, hybrid, multiple and connected. Whether strolling on picturesque beaches in popular video-games, designing virtual realty utopias online or listening to the intensity of birdsong in a soundscape otherwise saturated by the drones of engines ferrying children to school or people to work, we have come to depend on our connected devices to navigate our isolation from each other, from nature and from culture.

Divergent Landscapes seeks to highlight this dichotomy of our virtual wildernesses, hybrid journeys, streams of resistance, phantasmagoric forests and a networked embrace. Making visible the Divergent Landscapes, through our sonic identities, digital realities and public/private (exterior /interior) spaces.