Expanded Soundscapes, 2018-2020

'A Field Composition for a Silk Factory’, Expanded Soundscapes Graphic Score Series, 2018. 30cm x 42xm, Collage, Pen on Paper.

'A Field Composition for Lost Monuments’, Expanded Soundscapes Graphic Score Series, 2018. 30cm x 42xm, Collage, Pen on Paper.

Various, Expanded Soundscapes Graphic Score Series, 2018. Size variable, Collage, Pen, Paper.

“Expanded Soundscapes” (2018–2020) is a series of graphic sound scores composed for field recorders, bodies and random objects. This project draws from Ursula Le Guin’s concept of ‘The Mother Tongue’ as well as Pauline Oliveros’ methoology of ‘Deep Listening’. As a practice, “Expanded Soundscapes” explores what I call the notions of listening with and embodying with through visual scores. They invite performers and listeners to attend to the practice of listening to our lived environments in a more attentive way. These scores translate my experience of listening and embodying different spaces and places, from public spaces to soviet architectural buildings, as visual field recording compositions to be interpreted and performed by listeners and sound makers, to be read and imagined openly and without restrictions.

Due to their abstracted and non-linear nature, the scores, in the spirit of Pauline Oliveros, invite listeners to use their bodies as instruments as well as recorders to immerse in ‘the whole of the space-time continuum of perceptible sound’ (2008) with the hope that a more connected, open and social relation between us and our lived environment can be uncovered.

Sandra Kazlauskaitė

Projects:

Endless Loops of Mourning, 2024

Sound Considered Museum, 2024

What if I told you, that Everything I Touch Turns into Gold, 2024

Snow White, 2023

The Everyday (Pt. 1), 2023

Gendered Soundscapes, 2022-Ongoing

Tracing Echoes, 2021

With Silences, 2020