Sounding Situated Knowledges: Echo in Archaeoacoustics

Goh, Annie

doi:10.1080/13534645.2017.1339968

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“…There is also a need for an interdisciplinary discussion regarding the cultural dimension of acoustic parameters extracted from an archaeological site. Echo can be considered a physical phenomenon that encapsulates reflection and diffraction and is posited on a material level, but it can also act on a symbolic level as a sounding disturbance in traditional subject-object relations (Goh, 2017).…”

Section: Challenges For a New Disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology Meets Archaeology: Psychoarchaeoacoustics for Understanding Ancient Minds and Their Relationship to the Sacred

2020

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How important is the influence of spatial acoustics on our mental processes related to sound perception and cognition? There is a large body of research in fields encompassing architecture, musicology, and psychology that analyzes human response, both subjective and objective, to different soundscapes. But what if we want to understand how acoustic environments influenced the human experience of sound in sacred ritual practices in premodern societies? Archaeoacoustics is the research field that investigates sound in the past. One of its branches delves into how sound was used in specific landscapes and at sites with rock art, and why past societies endowed a special significance to places with specific acoustical properties. Taking advantage of the advances made in sound recording and reproduction technologies, researchers are now exploring how ancient social and sacred ceremonies and practices related to the acoustic properties of their sound environment. Here, we advocate for the emergence of a new and innovative discipline, experimental psychoarchaeoacoustics. We also review underlying methodological approaches and discuss the limitations, challenges, and future directions for this new field.

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Section: Challenges For a New Disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology Meets Archaeology: Psychoarchaeoacoustics for Understanding Ancient Minds and Their Relationship to the Sacred

2020

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“…Of course, looking is an act of engaging in the world as well, but, as Voegelin explains, the critique of the visual is "not a critique of its object but of its practice" (emphasis added) [14]. Otherwise put, these two modes of engaging-looking and listeninginvoke different orientations and ethical values (or, in the words of Annie Goh, they offer "different maps to a territory" [15]).…”

Section: Turning From Eye To Earmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tactical Soundwalking in the City: A Feminist Turn from Eye to Ear

Loveless

2020

Leonardo Music Journal

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This article investigates a turn from eye to ear in the literature and practice of walking-as-art. Arguing for listening as a feminist and ecologically oriented mode of engaging with the world, the author examines the practice of soundwalking (Westerkamp) and Deep Listening (Oliveros), placing them in conversation with the work of Michel de Certeau, and concludes with a discussion of the creative projects of Suzanne Thorpe, Viv Corringham and Amanda Gutierrez in order to chart the importance of relational listening practices today.

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“…Cox's position has been subject to substantial critique. As, among others, Annie Goh, Marie Thompson and Brian Kane have argued, Cox's material ontology obfuscates or even ignores the cultural, social, technological, and political constitution of sound and listening (Goh 2017;Thompson 2017;Kane 2015;Wilson 2018). Campbell argues that a close engagement with Deleuze's work challenges many of the precepts of Cox's sonic materialism, and suggests a rethinking of materialism in the context of music.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%