ABSTRACT
The Verbatim Formula (TVF) is a participatory practice research project based at Queen Mary University of London that explores ways to offer redistributions of power by disrupting institutionalised spaces and routine modes of service delivery. This chapter argues that in the phase of the TVF practice research a sonic soundscape used at the TVF- Our Hearings Our Voice (OHOV) event at the Scottish Parliament opened a politically inflected dimension of creative emergence, potential and change. Our soundscape and audio performances were intervening in the ‘sonic architecture’ of Scottish Parliament, inveigling themselves between and inside its affective and rhythmic structures, encouraging our interlocutors to be embodied and present to us and to each other. A kind of ‘sonic agency’ is possible through the interventions of sound in the sphere of appearance. The soundscape provided an aural record of our TVF-OHOV work in Glasgow, and melded sounds of the young people's lives and their thoughts far beyond the immediate time-space.
