Recon is a military term for reconnaissance. I want to develop a new hybrid sound format that focuses on transparency of systemic oppression such as militarisation, arms trade, femicide, murder of journalists, violence on indigenous activism for extraction but also visions of overcoming it, highlighting actors of change. A hybrid format using open data sets (sonification), investigative journalism, interviews with activist, raw facts but also imagination, speculative fiction, field recordings and radical sound work with the aim to radically inspire short form listening. In times of attention economy, fake news and snippet information war, I am thinking of developing a compressed compelling sound format that inspires engagement, is precise, highly on point and artistically expressive. It is hard to describe, it has to be invented. As the late scifi writer Ursula Le Guin said: "... we will need artists and writers to remember freedom" I am trying to do that. The project intends to creatively 'sonify' and exhibit these often hidden, complicated, underlying processes and facts to a comprehensive narrative that is understandable through simple listening to inspire effective action.

The project 'recon' is ongoing under the domain rec-on.org

We built an online exhibition space in collaboration with an extremely talented web developer Joana Chicau, whom I paid with "other expenses", the space was built in a way to enable a long term design development to expand and develop a web-sustainability. and potentially build a community and even a coop ownership model within 5 years time.

The space is dedicated to a new experimental sound format recon, for political sound.

Furthermore under the project I was experimenting with projects around political listening, audio collectifness and a new section called feminist sonic technologies, with focus on developing new audio art formats and network building around global feminist. Challenges are that the project is very new and the community around it has first to be developed. ⇋ REC-on ↭ a new space {inflection} for political sound work & political listening ↣ follow #soundasgrowing #feministsonictechnologies #audiocollectifness · rec-on.org these short format episodes are 1 min audio format with a pdf reader + organizations to organize with on episode issue. ↳ r2 ON FEMICIDE ↳ r3 ON FRONTEX ↳ r4 ON DIRECT DEMOCRACY ↳ r5 ON MIGRATION ↳ r6 ON INVASION ↳ r7 ON PLURAL ECONOMICS
How well have you accomplished the objectives set for the project so far?

Kone granted the project an extra support for the next 3 years to expand the space. I am so motivated and very grateful and excited!

please visit and listen! Feedback welcome!

REC-on @reconsound ⇋ REC-on ↭ a new space {inflection} for political sound work & political listening ↣ follow #soundasgrowing #feministsonictechnologies #audiocollectifness · rec-on.org recon https://rec-on.org/recon.html Overview/ sitemap / all episodes https://rec-on.org/index-sitemap.html