Abstract
This article examines seismicity caused by the contentious practice of hydraulic fracking and proposes a creative and computational method for sonifying seismic data to explore the affective experiences of anthropogenic ecological trauma. Focusing on the case of Preston New Road, Lancashire in the United Kingdom, where fracking activities led to over 300 anthropogenic earthquakes, the research this article is based on utilises experimental sound practice, ethnographic fieldwork (including interviews with anti-fracking activists), and creative computation to transform seismic environmental monitoring data into sound. The resulting sound-art piece, titled “Sonics of Rupture,” offers a unique perspective on the connections between extractive capitalism and its afterlives in surrounding ecologies, contributing to a growing sonic archive of the Anthropocene. The article contributes to the discourse on sound as a medium for witnessing and mediating environments beyond human sensory capacities, while also exploring the ontological multiplicity of digital objects and the mobility and mutability of data and its potential to contribute to affective experiences. Ultimately, the article centres the listening capacities of the more-than-human and highlights the embodied experience of sound in understanding ecological trauma.
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