A hybrid listening to atmospheric processes

This paper delves into main aspects that support my environmental sound artistic practice, centered around atmospheric processes. It leads to elaborate on the media installation Augury, which surrounds the concept of hybrid listening to atmospheric phenomena. The proposed approach on hybrid listening investigates the merge of mediated, embodied, and situated knowledge, to assist how we sense our atmosphere beyond our human capacity, by translating environmental signals into audible and immersive perception. Hybrid listening is informed by past meteorological insights, including ancient to modern weather science, deepening into a profound temporal perspective. In consonance to this conference’s theme inquiry about symbiotic imaginary, hybrid listening melds selected meteorological narratives that lead human sensibility to interplay with more-than-human dimensions: living organisms and technical systems. By means of interactive instruments, this research brings this symbiotic ensemble into an immersive sound encounter with the atmospheric milieu. These instruments harmonize with the convoluted ecological dynamics of the atmosphere—an intricate interplay of matter and agency.