This week marks the five year anniversary of the Gothic Listening Project. From a handful of initial recordings and sound experiments, the project has grown to include 55 pieces from project collaborators, released on 17 singles or albums (all available for free download via our Bandcamp).
We’d like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to invite you to contribute to the project, even (or especially) if it would be your first time trying your hand at field recording or sound editing. We currently have open calls for contributions to four ongoing projects:
- The Gothic Everyday asks contributors to listen for the gothic resonances in everyday life, whether by capturing things as they are or by remixing and reimagining ordinary sounds to reveal their uncanny aspects.
- Ecogothic/Ecoacoustic invites field recordings (original and/or remixed) that explore the “ecogothic” through sound
- Unvoiced challenges artists to recreate the non-verbal, non-musical sounds of particular scenes from gothic and horror film and television, using foley art and other techniques to think through the sound track and/or reimagine it as sound art.
- Haunted Places presents the sounds of haunted sites, real or imagined. Entries in this project might record visits to sites with haunted histories or that feature in urban legends, and listen to them as mundane, ordinary places–found footage horror where nothing horrific or even out of the ordinary needs to happen. Alternately, they might record the sounds of gothic tourism or horror’s filming locations; or offer other approaches to the sonic experience of spatiality, history, and haunting.
You can learn more about getting involved here.
Thanks for listening!
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