A network of play
for the things that we say
an inner ear of l[ear]ning
is here in this way

Aphonic Exchange is an experiment in playful pedagogy led by artists Ceri Hann and Roseanne Bartley, co-opting Liquid Architecture’s social media presence to provoke responses and mutate social exchange mechanisms.

A prompting of thought through an absence of sound?
with an eye in the sky and an ear on the ground
Use pictorial audiation to see sound all around

These participatory prompts draw from the history of graphic scores, object based pedagogy, language games, memes and conceptual art instructions to make propositions which draw upon the animate potential of makeshift artefacts alongside verbal and non-verbal language. The silent cypher (which cannot be voiced) will help us to unbraid the platform.

The subtle influence of poetic allusion
The content/user
generative confusion

We will explore what sociality sounds, tastes, smells and feels like through a mediated feed; and ask for responses in the form of analogue or digital field works. Signal and noise are collectively constructed to be attenuated and exchanged, highlighted and re-wired.

Hear we can
the dumb luck
of happy accidents

Through gamified logics of participation, this on-and-offline workshop attends to how voice is shaped and distributed across platforms and within social fields.

When moot points become
mute points it points back to forced silence.
Is the direction of noise a signal to violence?

Participate in daily Aphonic Exchanges via @liquid_architecture, and #aphonicexchange on Instagram from 23–30 October 2020.

Interview podcast with Debris Facility, Ceri Hann and Roseanne Bartley can be listened to here

Post One: Say What?

Course Overview: Living the life of digital DNA, Aphonic Exchange is an experimental workshop, a form of ‘insta grammar’ or ‘exquisite corpus’, an infer-sound-image platform for facilimaking and gifting your presence in mindful risk taking led by Roseanne Bartley @roseannebartley and Ceri Hann @puppetshowdown

This eight day modular online workshop is orchestrated via a series of prompts or scores here through our instagram. Participate through sharing your infer-sound-images and tagging @liquid_architecture and #aphonicexchange to feature in LA's stories. Doing as a form of thinking. Making as a form of knowing.

Exercise 1: Coarse Outline.

Sharpen your pencils, today we render sketchy onomatopoeia definitions. Image a word that ‘sounds like it represents’, then draw out the sound with a sonic aura.

Exercise 2: Stationary Moves

With a blank page and an open mind, in touch with your fingers and sounds yet defined. Feel for the words that might be trapped at this stage, bound to make sense of an invisible cage. Here your stationary moves, break grammatical law, enveloped by silence, as we need not think more.
Infer-sound you have found with the radar of play through the eye of your phone the instagram way, tag #aphonicexchange

Exercise 3: Sonic Shadow Play

The capital of fences, corralling consensus, hoarding territory, coast to coast.
Downplay the lack of gaps in the fence. Tap to rail against the nonsense.
With a visual sounding of our ring fence surrounding,
adjust between us, the common ground of patch work posts.

Exercise 4: Zoomorphic

Sounds like text,
write out of context.

The mind’s [h]ear
Peer to peer

When the focal is local
the vocal is clear.

Images speak, alarm and calm.

Life forms around sound
but the text form is farming.

Tune in and
pitch escape
Post/text

Exercise 5: Sounding Mimicry

Sound fx you hear?
Sound affects, you see?

To think aloud, if thinking allowed, soften and too subtle, for the digital crowd.

Mimic the foley as you track the life of sound.
Otherwise post production tricks

Exercise 6: Sound Walk

Make the time to
take your ears for a walk
stroll without scrolling
step back to move forward

Break silence on this path of learning
Track the sounding
of your sonic surrounding
post walk

Exercise 7: An Exercise In Exercise

Push back on the
push to consume
to make more space
to make more room

Take the time listen,
to the rumbling of volume

Walk it around the block
unblock the creative way
wheeling a wheelie bin
post your sense of play

Exercise 8: It's Not You It's Meme

Here text and context,
pretend to contend.

Where (we hear) of course, this course
must come to an end

eight provocations
speak in audible consideration
preparing the ground
to infer-sound collaboration.

Time may tell, what the insta story means
through a viral appearance, an echo of memes

aphonicexchange

-un-ear-thing- is a new initiative extending Liquid Architecture’s work with experimental education and pedagogy.