Affective listening, affective climate: sonic practices of resistance and collective feeling in the climate crisis

This research-creation project investigates the affective, social, and political roles of sound art and music in the context of the climate crisis. Situated at the intersection of sound studies, affect theory, and research-creation, it explores how environmentally-engaged art can express climate grief, inspire resistance, and create space for collective feeling. The research includes a content analysis of environmentally-engaged works on the independent music publishing website, Bandcamp, and the creative work is that of an original audio-visual installation work, titled i am holding. Through this dual approach, the project examines how listening and artistic practice can function as an embodied and disruptive ways of knowing, offering alternative ways of sensing and responding to the climate crisis. Emphasizing emotional and sensory experience, this work contributes to scholarship in environmental humanities, sound studies, and research-creation; proposing that environmentally-engaged art practices can cultivate new modes of awareness and solidarity to inspire action.