Tessa Laird and Xenia Benivolski: Locating Echoes (You Can't Trust Music)
b'In "Musical Vitalities", Holly Watkins describes the life of music - tenuous, metaphorical, contingent and mortal - as the cross-modal interpretation of sounds. Sounds are ambiguous, they alert us to dangers and lures, both animate and inanimate. \\u201cMusic retains that ambiguity; music is the art of possibly animate things\\u201d.\\n\\nArtist and writer Tessa Laird and curator Xenia Benivolski discuss how echo-location can act as metaphor, word play, and sonic stimulus; the double-sided notion of anthropomorphism; and interspecies cultures and resonance.\\u2028\\n\\nTessa Laird\\u2019s essay \'Locating Echoes\' attempts to bridge the existential void that separates us from bats. It is presented alongside video works by the artist and editor of our journal Disclaimer Liang Luscombe, and audio compositions created using bat samples by our editorial associate and former artistic director Joel Stern.\\n\\nCo-commissioned by Liquid Architecture and E-Flux \\u2018Locating Echoes\\u2019 was developed for the latest chapter of You Can\\u2019t Trust Music (YCTM), a research project on sound and music,\\xa0curated by\\xa0Xenia Benivolski. The piece is featured in Chapter 3 of You Can\\u2019t Trust Music \\u2013 \\u2018The Art of Possibly Animate Things\' \\u2013\\xa0exploring the convergence between danger, safety, community, prayer and the flow of information through und erwater cables, generations, skies, animals and sediments; \\xa0\'Listening to music, we continuously experiment with being other.\' (Holly Watkins, 1972).\\n \\nhttps://yctm.e-flux.com/the-art-of-possibly-animate-things\\n\\nImage: Liang Luscombe.\\n\\nProduced by Mara Schwerdtfeger. \\n\\nFinancial support from patrons at any level has a resounding impact on our work. You can support Liquid Architecture\\u2019s weekly\\xa0podcast and our online journal Disclaimer, for new thinking and writing on listening and sound through a Patreon subscription, for as little as $5 a month. \\n\\nhttps://www.patreon.com/liquidarchitecture\\n\\nFor the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia\\u2019s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.\\n\\nhttps://liquidarchitecture.org.au/'