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Jacek Smolicki: Workshops
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Welcome to a series of soundwalking workshops. We will meet to walk together, listen to, and talk about different aspects of soundscapes that surround us in our daily life but which often remain unnoticed or ignored. Participants will learn about various listening approaches and creative sound recording technologies that can open our ears onto those imperceptible realms. We will walk through selected parts of the city, turning our ears to their past, present and, potentially, future soundscapes. Each walk will comprise performative listening sessions, discussions, and reflections on readings to be circulated prior to each event.
Each soundwalk can host max 15 participants, so make sure to complete your registration via links below.
During this first workshop we will visit some of the intertidal zones surrounding so-called Stanley Park, the unceded territory of Coast Salish People. Besides acknowledging the past soundscapes of this land – those absent and still resonant today – we will listen to the troubling entanglement of the marine organisms that inhabit those zones (limpets and barnacles among others) with noises from the bay.
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We will begin by listening to the Gastown Steam clock from diverse positions and via different sound technologies. This creative and critical inspection will become a departure point to reflect on how mechanical vs cyclic organization of time affects our sonic sensitivities. We will also discuss other public soundmarks which are sounds of particular significance to local communities and cultures.
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At this workshop we will begin by listening to the beached logs and driftwood scattered along Wreck Beach. We will approach their sounds as echoes of the colonial past that persistently haunt and inform local landscapes and soundscapes in Vancouver. We will walk along the coastline tuning with those echoes while also turning our ears to other stories that the trees of the nearby Pacific Spirit Park have to tell.
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Jacek Smolicki is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher. His works bring historical, critical and existential dimensions to listening, recording and archiving practices in human and more-than-human realms. Besides working with historical documents, archives, and heritage, Smolicki develops other modes of mediating stories and signals from various sites and temporalities. His work is manifested through soundwalks, soundscape compositions, diverse forms of writing, experimental para-archives, and audio-visual installations. He has performed, published, and exhibited internationally (e.g. In-Sonora, Madrid, Audioart Festival, Krakow, Ars Electronica, Linz, Moscow Young Art Biennale, Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo) and currently holds an international postdoc position at Linköping University (funded by the Swedish Research Council), Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and Harvard University (with support from Fulbright Commission). He is a co-founder of Walking Festival of Sound (www.wfos.net).
