electromagnetic navigations and map-making { e a r w i n g s } workshop: { e a r w i n g s } is a cluster of alternative listening-specific participatory opportunities produced by Tiny Disasters™, a collaboration between Caroline Park and Julie Andreyev. { e a r w i n g s } facilitates occasions for individual and social acts of listening, to emerge unconventional forms of sensing-feeling-knowing. { e a r w i n g s } invites participants to transform and transgress through listening-actions. Human bodies are coaxed into becoming-animal as earcreatures enacting radical forms of listening, destabilizing customary ways of knowing that favour seeing/languaging. In this workshop, participants navigate the ECU library with telephone pick-up coils, which allow for electromagnetic fields emanating from nearby technological devices and machinery to become audible. Through a series of steps, Caroline Park guides participants in creating their own maps of the electromagnetic fields, eventually evolving into a variety of “musical time scores.” Relevant topics, including sonic volume, time, and space, as expressive means, will be discussed. In preparation for this workshop, please bring your own earphones/headphones if you have them. Participants will be provided with hand-held audio technologies, including telephone pick-up coils, for the amplification of electromagnetic fields during the workshop. There will be a few extra headphones if needed. A final discussion will follow the workshop. This workshop will be limited to the first 10 participants. Meet at the entrance of the ECU Library, near the middle of the concourse on the second floor.
