Jamie J. Maule

Jamie is interested in the fundamentally interconnected nature of the world, and in how global capitalism, media, and growing urban populations have distorted our ability to recognise the simple fact that we live in a biosphere. In his work he engages with issues including ecology, spirituality, and communities; aiming to disrupt mainstream narratives on how society and our conception of reality are structured, and hoping to offer a fresh perspective. 

Cave Call is the culmination of over a year of research into the psychological effects of immersive sound, ecological theory, philosophy and spirituality. It takes influence from Gregory Bateson and his cybernetic theory of ‘mind’, as well as Timothy Morton’s discussion of ‘the severing’ – the gulf between ‘human correlated reality’, and ‘the real’, or the ‘ecological symbiosis of human and nonhuman parts of the biosphere’. The project was originally born out of questions provoked by R. Murray Schafer’s assertion that “[immersive] listening conditions are those of a classless society”.

This work could not have happened without significant amounts of help from Susan Atwill, Laura Marija Balciunaite, Matt Lewis, Tom Deacon, Harriet Liddell Foster, Leo Graham, Harry Brandrick, Julita Mahrer, Anna Tuhus, and Linnea Langfjord Kristensen. I am extremely grateful to all of them.