What can an art-science collaboration tell us about the acoustic ecology of Okinawa’s military bases?
Friday 1 November 2024, 3.15pm
64 Banbury Road
Rupert Cox (Anthropology, Manchester)
This presentation will explore the ontological implications of a series of interdisciplinary art-science interventions into the sonic dimensions of the ecologies manifested by the US military occupation of the island of Okinawa. Beginning with an extensive local government led acoustic survey in the 1990’s of the health effects for the Okinawan population of exposure to military aircraft noise emanating from the bases, the presentation draws on the artistic collaborations since 2006 of the lead scientist on that project, the Japanese acoustician Kozo Hiramatsu, with this paper’s author, anthropologist Rupert Cox and the sound artist Angus Carlyle.
