Project Collaborators: Nida Sajid and Ritika Ganguly.
Supported by: The Hub Residencies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. Sound Stories: Activating Community Voices in a Collaboratory is a year-long public composition experiment at the University of Minnesota to explore individual and communal resonance and resistance through sound.
The project invites an inter-generational community of participants from diverse occupational, disciplinary, immigrant (settler ancestry included) and artistic backgrounds to play with home-made sound visualizers.
It starts with a basic experimental environment constructed in the physical space of The Hub - a Cymatic or sound visualization room - to learn how community members resonate, envision, and adapt to their environment and to each other in the face of acts of silencing.
This multi-sensorial environment uses the emerging science of Cymatics - the study of the visible effects of sound and resonance - in order to explore our everyday experiences with sounds and their invisibilising by regimes and everyday agents of institutional power.
Press: https://kfai.org/minneculture-seeing-touching-and-feeling-sound-with-sound-stories/
