Gendered Soundscapes (2022-2023)
'Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes', A Score for Central Market' (Listening, Field Recording, 2022)
'Gendered Soundscapes' (2022-2023) is a practice-based project, exploring how soundscapes might be gendered and gender sounded. The first inquiry focuses on the post-soviet context, specifically Lithuania. Using field recordings, note-taking and audiovisual archiving, the project listens to everyday lived public and private spaces and asks how different thresholds of sound, from silence, voice, music to technologically mediated background noise, contributes towards the production of soundscapes where prescribed gender roles, sexism, and misogyny continue to linger as ingrained sounding elements, and how these might be embodied by those who endure in it.
The project explores theses sonic uncomfortable extremes through an interrogation of contemporary post-Soviet socially, politically and technologically mediated soundscapes by tuning towards the sounds of gender and class.
Project output No. 1: 'Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes: Lithuania' (Soundscape as a Journal, LCI, 2022).
'Soundscape as a Journal', Lithuanian Cultural Institute, 2022
'Soundscape as a Journal', Lithuanian Cultural Institute, 2022
'Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes: Lithuania', in 'Soundscape as a Journal', Lithuanian Cultural Institute, 2022
Project output No. 2: 'The Everyday (Part One)' (Radio Play, Lithuanian Radio and Television, 2023)
'The Everyday (Part One)' (2023) is radio play, exploring how social, political and technological everyday sounds might be gendered and gender sounded in our lived environments. Through auditory landscapes and experimental music motifs, this play reveals how space is full of gender codes. This piece is a montage of everyday encounters. It includes various mundane (significant and insignificant) situations: taxi rides, trade exchanges, advertisements, bulletin boards, echoes of popular music songs, and women's self-help monologues.
The play was commissioned by The Lithuanian National Radio and Television and premiered on 'Radio Art' programme on 22nd April 2023.
https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000269165/radijo-menas-sandra-kazlauskaite
Project output No. 3: Graphic Scores, Installation, Performance (2022 - In Progress)
'A Score for Meat Market' (Listening and Field Recording, 2022)
'A Score for a 'Bolt' Taxi Ride' (Listening and Field Recording, 2022)
'Untitled Score No.1' (2022)
'Untitled Score No.1' (2022)
'Untitled Score No.1', Detail (2022)
'Untitled Score No.1', (2022)
