Audio Papers resemble the regular essay or academic text in that they deal with a certain topic of interest, but presented in the form of an audio production.

• It is an extension of the written paper through its specific use of media, a sonic awareness of aesthetics and materiality, and a creative approach towards communication.
• It is a performative format working together with an affective and elaborate understanding of language.
• It is an experiment embracing intellectual arguments and creativity work, papers and performances, written scholarship and sonic aesthetics.

1. The Audio Paper affords performative aesthetics
2. The Audio Paper is idiosyncratic
3. The Audio Paper is situated and partial
4. The Audio Paper evokes and affects sensations
5. The Audio Paper is multifocal; It assembles diverse and often heterogeneous voices
6. The Audio Paper has multiple protagonists, narrators and material agencies
7. The Audio Paper brings aesthetics and technology together in meditation
8. The Audio Paper is a constituent part of broader ecologies

Initial Thoughts:

Although it remains hard to fully grasp the concept at this time, the idea of creating an intellectual audio paper welcomes a number of creative pathways to travel down.

It is interesting because my own creative practice has began to lean towards a more educational and ethnographical standpoint; with primary focus on dance/ritual cultures from be it New York to Haiti and more personal experiments into UK Folklore and my connection to a specific environment, the countryside.