In her sound piece, artist and educator Shanti Suki Osman explores the sonority of rage. Listen to a new episode of the Sonic Worlding column, which asks how one’s positionality is created by the people who listen.

In 2023, I was invited by friend and dancer Birte Opitz to feature in her dance and voice performance, Raging Affirmations, which was performed at the end of August and beginning of September 2023. The performance was a beautiful opportunity to sing and sound and explore the notion of rage and rage. It became apparent that narratives of rage do not always correspond with or complement each other. Alongside rehearsing and workshopping ideas for this performance, I was also developing methodologies for my current academic research which involved listening and positionalities and, more specifically, how my positionality is created by the people who listen to me. Whilst writing about these methodologies, I felt connections and repetitions from and in the performance and vocal work I had also been doing. This piece, Listening to Positionalised Rage, is an attempt to concretize some of those connections and considerations in sound.