The Panacousticon: by way of echo to Freddie Rokem

Wilkins, Caroline

doi:10.21476/pp.2016.2179

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“…In the fast-changing world of social media, it is imperative to have a text that changes with the times. (Mosco 2019) With W/Ringing Ears emerges from The Panacousticon, a performative response in the form of a script by Caroline Wilkins (2016) to an essay by Freddie Rokem (2015) on eavesdropping in classical theatre. Rokem took as his point of departure eavesdropping scenes from plays, coupling them with philosophical discourse.…”

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With W/Ringing Ears: an audiovisual response

Jones¹,

Wilkins²

2022

Performance Philosophy

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This work emerges from The Panacousticon, a performative response in the form of a script by Caroline Wilkins (2016, 109-118) to an original essay by Freddie Rokem on eavesdropping in classical theatre (2015). As a sequel it has developed into a co-authored digital work in collaboration with multi-media artist Leona Jones. With W/Ringing Ears draws a link between the Panacousticon, a listening device invented in the 1600s by philosopher Athanasius Kircher, and both analogue and digital tools of surveillance emerging over the last two centuries, presented in the form of images of eavesdropping. It comprises a re-worked audio script based on the original and excerpts from sound recordings made from this new material. Emerging from the images is a contextual provocation on hearsay and virtual (mis-)information assailing our ears at this time of pandemic crisis, as well as the re-appearance of the original play script by Wilkins. The oral event of philosophising rebounds from the aural one. The acts of speaking and listening lead to the act of philosophising. Thus an initial experience of immediacy develops into a joint audio-phonic work, an acoustic act, a live encounter between performance and philosophy.

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With W/Ringing Ears: an audiovisual response

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2022

Performance Philosophy

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Efficient Salient Object Detection Model with Dilated Convolutional Networks

Guo

Yang

Gao

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IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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Introduction of Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) has made record progress in salient object detection models. However, in order to retain the input resolutions, deconvolutional networks with unpooling are applied on top of FCNs. This will cause the increase of the computation and network model size in segmentation task. In addition, most deep learning based methods always discard effective saliency prior knowledge completely, which are shown effective. Therefore, an efficient salient object detection method based on deep learning is proposed in our work. In this model, dilated convolutions are exploited in the networks to produce the output with high resolution without pooling and adding deconvolutional networks. In this way, the parameters and depth of the network are decreased sharply compared with the traditional FCNs. Furthermore, manifold ranking model is explored for the saliency refinement to keep the spatial consistency and contour preserving. Experimental results verify that performance of our method is superior with other state-of-art methods. Meanwhile, the proposed model occupies the less model size and fastest processing speed, which is more suitable for the wearable processing systems.

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Re-Listening to Derrida and Benjamin

Wilkins¹

2023

Performance Philosophy

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News on the publication of Two Plays for the Stage was announced on the Performance Philosophy website during 2021 but only received my attention this year, when I ordered a copy of the book out of curiosity. After reading it and making copious notes, I contacted the two authors to give them my impressions, particularly those concerning my responses to it in terms of sound. The trigger for this ReView came from an email discussion with John Schad on critical-creative writing, which I interpret as creative criticism, meaning that this could take any form appropriate to the artist’s discipline. Indeed my essay in an earlier edition of the journal (Wilkins, 2016) took the form of a labyrinthine script during its writing process, this as a response to Freddie Rokem's initial article (Rokem, 2015). It later manifested itself in an audio piece presented in Vol. 7.1, a collaboration between myself and Leona Jones entitled With W/Ringing Ears. (Jones, Wilkins, 2022). Fred Dalmasso’s research into the syncope (2017), which surfaces within the concluding essay to the book, has interested me for some time in terms of its possible parallels in the world of sound. In this current contribution I present a parallel sound-world that was spontaneously invoked during my reading of Derrida | Benjamin. I refer to key phrases / quotes that became pointers for triggering the sonic responses that follow. This is by no means an attempt to suggest audio for any future production of the plays, rather a series of independent sonic ideas that spring from the writings of John Schad and Fred Dalmasso.

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The Panacousticon: by way of echo to Freddie Rokem

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With W/Ringing Ears: an audiovisual response

With W/Ringing Ears: an audiovisual response

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