Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening For Repair @ ReVerb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space

The SpokenWeb Research Network is hosting the 2023 SpokenWeb Research Symposium on the theme of "Reverb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space" at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada from May 1-3, 2023. The conference theme — "reverb" — invites participants to reflect on how sound is situated, transformed, and territorialized through physical, cultural, historical, and political spaces.

Session 9a: Emergency Signals: Hearing Energy, Listening For Repair

Tuesday, May 2, 2;45-4:15 MDT; Panelists: Jessie Beier (Concordia U), Sourayan Mookerjea (U Alberta), Mark Simpson (U Alberta)

The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy; emergency; repair. The E.E.R.K combines image, text, and sound to riff on the idea of a repair manual—that staple genre of self-help and self-making—while exploring energy emergency and energy emergence in several entangled registers. The panel presentation will introduce the various sonic dimensions and dynamics of the E.E.R.K. so as to explore the import of sound for the reckoning of energy and its emergencies.

For more information and to register for the symposium, visit the conference website here.