Audio Recording as Performance

Gallagher, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-5749-7_18

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“…Such methodological approaches may, but do not necessarily, involve the production of audio recordings, which is also referred to as phonography (Drever, 2002). They may also involve analysis of recorded sound, and the performativity of audio representation, raising questions about the politics of sonic knowledge (Gallagher, 2019) and how recording 'mediates or actively constructs particular cultural performances of listening' (Droumeva, 2016: 82). In more recent years, the proliferation of affordable and mobile audio(-visual) recording technologies has created new opportunities for gathering, analysing, expressing and sharing ethnographic information (Gershon, 2019).…”

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Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London

Aceska,

Doughty,

Tiryaki

et al. 2024

Urban Studies

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Matters of sound and listening are increasingly being attended to across the social sciences and humanities, reflecting what has been termed a ‘sonic turn’ since the early 2000s. In urban ethnographic research, scholars are starting to pay attention to the role of sound in social relations, in expressions of identity and senses of belonging, as well as in processes of othering. In this paper, we explore the theoretical and methodological opportunities of sonic urban ethnography, that is, an urban ethnography that foregrounds sound and listening in theoretical and methodological ways. We argue that the promise of sonic urban ethnography lies in its ability to interrupt the predominant focus on text and the visual by developing expanded practices of listening for alternative ways of knowing and engaging with the urban. We share four empirical vignettes from Shanghai, Berlin and London that illustrate, in their different ways, the power exercised through sound in the urban environment. Our discussion of the empirical cases highlights three key ‘lessons’ for doing sonic urban ethnography.

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Section: The Promise Of Sound In Urban Ethnographymentioning

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Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London

Aceska,

Doughty,

Tiryaki

et al. 2024

Urban Studies

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“…Westerkamp asserts that it is with the 'materials' each composer gathers and listens to, combined with their unique cultural, social, political and spiritual perspective that soundscape composition takes place. As we will map out in the section below, sound portraits reflected such seeking to mobilise a 'performative' element of field recordings (Gallagher, 2015(Gallagher, , 2019 by montaging and juxtaposing sounds.…”

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Voices of displacement: a methodology of sound portraits exploring identity and belonging

Baker

Sonn

Meyer

2020

Qualitative Research

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Sound portraiture blends audio-documentary techniques and qualitative arts-based and narrative methods, privileging participants’ voices and conveying the complexity of their stories through the layering of sound. We created sound portraits that negotiated the multiple and often conflicting voices, histories and subject positions for South African migrants who psychologically straddle home and host lands. Sound portraits speak to the history of colonialism, Apartheid, displacement, and the continuities of power and privilege in people’s lives. We argue for the use of sound portraits as an aesthetic representation of lived experience and as a medium through which research knowledge becomes democratised.

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Audio Recording as Performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London

Doing sonic urban ethnography: Voices from Shanghai, Berlin and London

Voices of displacement: a methodology of sound portraits exploring identity and belonging

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