From d2484373efe0017274fdd93d1da1e95068cf18ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:16:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md' --- content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md index bbf9339..1cc538d 100644 --- a/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md +++ b/content/topic/lessons-in-how-(not)-to-be-heard.md @@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ What is the acoustic equivalent of resolution? Perhaps fidelity; a word that als ## Lesson 1: How to become (in)audible by disabling silicon ears -With difficulty; name machine listening as an object of political contestation and struggle; describe some of its features, as they are clarified by the pandemic; become an artist becoming a paradigm dissident; dismantle capitalism and abolish big data, since they are increasingly difficult to disentangle; follow machine listening's history, beyond itself; produce a diverse counterculture of machine listening; imagine a machine listening [centered in country](https://oldwaysnew.com/); demonstrate and mock machine listening in its thoughtlessness; demonstrate and mock the machine listening industry in its thoughtlessness; write a policy document, but with artists as well as lawyers; seize the data centres. +With difficulty; name machine listening as an object of political contestation and struggle; describe some of its features, as they are clarified by the pandemic; become an artist becoming a paradigm dissident; dismantle capitalism and abolish big data, since they are increasingly difficult to disentangle; follow machine listening's history, beyond itself; produce a diverse counterculture of machine listening; imagine a machine listening ![centered in country](audio:static/audio/ccdesign.mp3);[^Abdilla] demonstrate and mock machine listening in its thoughtlessness; demonstrate and mock the machine listening industry in its thoughtlessness; write a policy document, but with artists as well as lawyers; seize the data centres. ## Lesson 2: How to be (in)audible in the presence of microphones -Tear them down or rip them out; develop a community-based open source [voice training app](https://github.com/project-spectra) for trans folk;[^Ahmed] autotune everything; be somewhere loud; mask your speech with noise; invent the privacy industry; never use a telephone, or a smart speaker, or a car, or a city; ask Siri; cover your laptop with sticky tape; have a speech disorder or an accent; write a manifesto on audio luddism; invent new languages; be female and over 50, or indigenous; speak Wiradjuri. +Tear them down or rip them out; [develop]((https://github.com/project-spectra)) a community-based open source ![voice training app](audio:static/audio/ahmed.mp3) for trans folk;[^Ahmed] autotune everything; be somewhere loud; mask your speech with noise; invent the privacy industry; never use a telephone, or a smart speaker, or a car, or a city; ask Siri; cover your laptop with sticky tape; have a speech disorder or an accent; write a manifesto on audio luddism; invent new languages; be female and over 50, or indigenous; speak Wiradjuri. ## Lesson 3: How to make yourself (in)audible by being out of earshot @@ -45,5 +45,6 @@ Enjoy being listened to; get your coronavirus diagnosis over the phone; get your # Bibliography [^Forensic]: LIBRARY Forensic Architecture, Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (2017),p27. [^forensic listening]: LIBRARY Lawrence Abu Hamdan, “Aural Contract–Forensic Listening and The Reorganization Of The Speaking Subject,” Cesura//Acceso 1 (2014): 200; James Parker, "Forensic Listening in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB)" *Index* (2020). +[^Abdilla]: Interview with Angie Abdilla, founder of [Old Ways, New](https://oldwaysnew.com/) on 2 September 2020 [^Ahmed]: LIBRARY Alex Ahmed, 'Online Community-based Design of Free and Open Source Software for Transgender Voice Training' (2020); Alex Ahmed, 'Trans Competent Interaction Design: A Qualitative Study on Voice, Identity, and Technology' *Interacting with Computers* (2018) [^reid]: Interview with [Kathy Reid](https://blog.kathyreid.id.au/) on 11 August, 2020 \ No newline at end of file