Sound, Reverence, and Black Aesthetic Creation

Talk by Ruth Nicole Brown (East Lansing, US) and Emery Petchauer (New York, US).

Abstract

In this presentation, we share exemplars of our sound art practice that emerged from a yearlong qualitative research project exploring how Black and Indigenous creative collectives evolve to sustain themselves over time.

Our practice features writing ritual performance scripts, composing audio tune-ins, and re-integrating through play, all that we’ve made and read in context of Black Studies, Sound Studies, and the social affordances of co-creating knowledge together that is unapologetically experimental. By sharing the process and production of our creative works, our intention is to inspire imaginative conversations that helps us and the audience name what it is we think we are doing with sound and how sound is also re-organizing us as artistic-scholar-collaborators whose creative works seeks to resound wholeness, reverence, and integrity, particularly among the collectives with whom we study.

Find material at formoffreedom.com.