Daily Hearings

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'Daily Hearings' was a series of assemblages of found and re-distributed sound fragments from the Performance Studies international (PSi) #22 conference 'Performance Climates.' Four days of the conference provided the impetus to monitor, record, and re-distribute interrelationships between the dramaturgy of conference organisation, vectors of individual participation, circumstantial happenings, and microclimates of experience. An algorithm-based process was created to gather sound samples, before arranging them into different layers or categories, transferring them to a pre-scripted process of transformation, and then releasing them back into the atmosphere of the conference via online streaming. This work was produced by Mick Douglas with Simon Maisch (sound artist) and Theron Schmidt (performer and scholar based at UNSW). RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: 'Daily Hearings' explored the temporal and spatial aspects of the 'climate' of 'Performance Climates' through the concepts of: 'Now time' / the built environment; 'Discursive time' / imaginative space; 'Circadian time' / local ecology; and 'Geological time' / global life systems. The work demonstrates Douglas' interest in score-based processes of collection and transformation, and his ongoing research into new forms of live, performative practices that engage with aesthetic experiences of mobility, and cultural and social atmospheres. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The proposal for Daily Hearings was reviewed by the conference committee before being accepted as part of the annual international conference and performance program of PSi: the peak international body for Performance Studies, which brings together artists, thinkers, activists, and academics working in the field of performance. The event was attended by approximately 500 people.

研究背景：《Daily Hearings》是由国际表演研究协会（Performance Studies international，简称PSi）第22届大会「表演气候（Performance Climates）」中的拾得声响与再分配声音片段集合而成的系列作品。本次创作以该大会的四天议程为契机，对会议组织的叙事架构、个体参与的路径、偶发情境与体验微气候之间的相互关联开展监听、记录与再分配工作。项目研发了一套基于算法的流程以采集声音样本，随后将样本编排为不同层级或类别，转入预设的转化流程，最终通过在线流媒体将其重新播送至大会的声场环境之中。该作品由米克·道格拉斯（Mick Douglas）与声音艺术家西蒙·迈施（Simon Maisch）、新南威尔士大学（UNSW）的表演者兼学者西伦·施密特（Theron Schmidt）联合创作。研究贡献：《Daily Hearings》通过四大概念探索了「表演气候」之「场域」的时空维度：「当下时间（Now time）」与建成环境、「话语时间（Discursive time）」与想象空间、「昼夜节律时间（Circadian time）」与本地生态、「地质时间（Geological time）」与全球生命系统。该作品体现出作者道格拉斯对基于创作谱式的采集与转化流程的研究兴趣，以及他对新型现场表演实践的持续探索——这类实践融入了流动性的审美体验，同时兼顾文化与社会声场的营造。研究意义：《Daily Hearings》的提案先经大会委员会评审，随后被纳入PSi的年度国际大会及表演单元。PSi作为国际表演研究领域的顶尖学术组织，汇聚了该领域的艺术家、思想家、活动家与学者。本次活动共吸引约500名参与者到场。