Sonic Earth
Brigstowe Institute, University of Bristol, UK
Climate ~ Nature ~ Sound ~ Art Project
The Earth Speaks…Are We Listening..?
Sonic Earth is a Brigstowe Institute founded, climate focused sound art project that seeks to explore a central question, if the Earth speaks, are we listening? Through sound recordings, composition and community engagement, Dr Natalie Hyacinth creates intricate sonic landscapes that seek to re-centre the Earth, and our complex relation to and position within it. Follow for more on Instagram: @sonicearth_ Explore below reflections and refractions from the project. Contemplations of what sound may mean in an increasingly ecologically unstable world. What we feel, we can hear. 
sonic clues dot the landscape
Recording nature poses many ethical questions. Can nature be heard, beyond what we can listen? How can we engage in a radical listening of the natural world?
a globe created by harmonic balance
Jacques Attali’s ‘Noise: The Political Economy of Music’ (1977), examines the ways in which the emergence of ‘noise’, a child of nineteenth century industrial capitalism, transformed the soundscape of the world.
Sonic Earth seeks to do the same for the neo liberal driven climate capitalism of the last century.
“Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, 1977
natural beauty in its rawest musical form
“The planet is asleep and it is the fault of the musicians who are untrue to themselves.”
Sun Ra
“It’s After the End of the World, don’t you know that yet?”
June Tyson, Space is the Place, 1974
“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.”
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, 1977
“There are two ways of contemplation with Brahman: in sound, and in silence.”
Upanishad 6
Contact
Email: natalie_littleton@yahoo.co.uk
