Ocean Sense: Listening, Technology and the Sonic Researcher

This audio paper examines listening practices, technologies and cultures within the scientific study of marine ecosystems. It mixes recordings of whale song and ocean sounds with the voices of its co-authors, marine mammal ecologist Denise Risch and artist researcher Mark Peter Wright. Moving across three phases of argumentation and reflection, the paper questions how underwater knowledge emerges  through tools such as hydrophones, spectrograms and Artificial Intelligence. It situates the ears, bodies and imaginations of researchers to ask what constitutes sonic data when listening to worlds beyond the human.

Published as part of Sound and More-Than-Human Worlds, featuring 19 peer reviewed audio papers on sound, technology and listening beyond the human

Keywords: listening practices, acoustic ecology, bioacoustics, technologies

Related paper presented at Uncommon Senses V, Concordia University, Montréal