A story of polyphony

I'm fascinated by the Bakhtinian concept of polyphony or, the notion of how the multiple voices and perspectives that exist within everyday communication (specifically, in what Bakhtin would call 'utterances') are positioned and balanced (for anyone unfamiliar with Bakhtin, click on the link here to find out a bit more!). My latest project aims to explore polyphony. Not to try to 'capture' it - ironically, despite the word being closely associated with photography it's extremely problematic for me for myriad reasons! Fundamentally, to capture something suggests it's possible to acquire a finalised version of a moment which, from a Bakhtinian perspective, is not possible. This, he argues, is because everything is unfinalisable. Plus, the mere existence of polyphony suggests that we each have 'authorial surplus' or, the ability to perceive aspects of of the word that are inaccessible to others, so to suggest that we can 'capture' something is unappealing. Instead of trying to capture polyphony and authorial surplus, then, I'm aiming to try and document it and tell a story of polyphony.