Addressing Climate Change Scepticism Through the Sonic Arts

Authors

Cissi Tsang, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

This paper discusses the continued denial of climate change despite overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement, through viewing climate change as a “hyperobject”—that is, a concept of such massive temporal and spatial dimensions that it defies traditional understanding. One of the challenges of the scientific community is to combat such scepticism through new ways of framing information, and the sonic arts offers an alternative presentation of truth through its ability to create emotional and narrative rapport, and also humanise esoteric information. This paper will focus on various methods of communicating climate change data aurally—such as sonification of data, and ecoacoustic methods of surveying environments.

Recommended Citation

Tsang, C. (2019). Addressing Climate Change Scepticism Through the Sonic Arts. Sound Scripts, 6(1).
Retrieved from https://ro.ecu.edu.au/soundscripts/vol6/iss1/16