Secret Reception
Collaborators: Kristine Diekman, Ben Pagac, and Tony Allard
Secret Reception combines art and bioacoustics to creatively engage the public in questions about sound reception in more-than-human worlds. This sonic art installation offers new paradigms for hearing through the design of haptic objects and tactile interfaces that use vibration to transmit sonic information. Drawing on scientific research that examines how insects detect sound through body parts, we transpose insect hearing to the human listening experience using sonic impulses that emulate the way insects receive them.
We would like to acknowledge the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology and the Atlantic Center for the Arts for supporting the installation of Secret Reception during the 2023 WFAE Conference. We acknowledge the contribution of Tony Allard who created the large insect images. All sounds used were either field recordings by Pagac, Diekman or were from fair use, public domain sources. Thanks to David B. Rothenberg for use of the water boatman recording.
Exhibitions
Listening Pasts, Listening Futures, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2023
Beyond Listening, Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE), 2023
After the End, Sound Scene, Hirshhorn Museumm, Washington DC, 2023
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), South River, Ontario, Canada, 2023