The Listener's Listening
Lawrence English · Queensland University of Technology · 2017
The listener's listening explores the role of audition and creative practices in the sonic arts. It looks at the relationship between listener and recording device and argues that listening is always agentive, embodied and affective, because the listening is always about the time and place in which the listener listens. It explores how the cultural and social experiences of the artist researcher affect listening through an exploration of the practice of field recording. The thesis argues for a new theoretical framework called relational listening that accounts for this relationship between listener and recording device.