A Metonymy, 10” x 13” Recycled Envelopes, Mailing List, Postal Service, Ongoing

In September of 2020, I began sending out multiple mailings sourced from the sound research I had been assembling in recent years. In order to begin a conversation with recipients, envelopes included readings, original pieces, and several questions along with an invitation to respond. Each envelope included an introductory letter to the materials enclosed. In planning each mailing, I was especially interested in contributing to a broader conversation toward our relationship to sound and lived experience as articulated over several mailings. Moreover, because listening practices and the definition of what constitutes aural technologies differ significantly in regions outside of the United States and Europe, I was interested in unfolding these discussions over the course of simultaneous correspondences in order to participate in remapping both to the forefront. With my research pointing to these critical yet undervalued epistemologies, one goal for this work was based on my interest to know in what ways recipients had sonically accumulated their own aural knowledge.

Envelopes were posted each time with a new reading and an introduction. Recipients were initially invited to sign up by submitting their mailing addresses throughout the programming planned during an artist residency.