Soundwalks: An experiential path to new sonic art

Carras, Christos

doi:10.1017/s1355771819000335

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“…The audio recordings in Belfast and Montreal were created as part of soundwalks, a methodology for actively listening while navigating an environment (Adams et al 2008;Paquette and McCartney 2012;Drever 2011;Carras 2019). Urban sites were chosen as the locations for active listening and recording exercises.…”

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The Sonic Imagery of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Varoutsos,

D’Arcy

2024

Current Research in Systematic Musicology

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The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed disruptions and disturbances in ways of living across the globe. Many of these changes in daily life were felt through stark changes to our soundscapes, particularly those in urban centres. Might we better understand the effects of the Covid-19 lockdowns through sonic analysis? This chapter explores how sound analysis methods, including concepts of the sound-motion object and sonic image, might aid in understanding the environmental soundscapes of the pandemic lockdowns. The discussion focuses on the Sounding Covid-19 project—an initiative involving a series of field recordings carried out during Covid-19 pandemic-related events in the urban environments of Belfast, Northern Ireland (2020–2022) and Montreal, Canada (2020–2021). The project presents the sound archive through various listening experiences, including soundscape compositions, sound mapping and narrative-based radiophonic work. We consider how the pandemic may have invited us to pause and reconsider how we document and archive the present to look back and better understand the future. Sound may be vital in understanding our environment and the socio-cultural shifts over time. This chapter argues that documenting, preserving, and analysing the soundscapes of the pandemic lockdowns may help us reflect on our shared histories in several ways.

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The Sonic Imagery of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Varoutsos,

D’Arcy

2024

Current Research in Systematic Musicology

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“…. it obliges us to critically reflect upon the meditations of our experience and their implications' [13], a deep insight into the experiences and perceptions of participants to the soundscape and factors which influence their response and expectation of the sonic environment [14]. Again, the concept of immersion and time for immersion, as well as participant activity (walking) does not implicitly feature in the consideration of the walk.…”

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Extending Soundwalking Practice: Soundsitting as an Inclusive and Complementary Method to Soundwalking

Bruce

2023

Acoustics

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This paper proposes the ‘soundsit’ as an alternative method to be used independently or in conjunction with current soundwalking methodological practice. The soundsit seeks to address the limits of the soundwalking method in relation to issues of transition, changing context, event occurrence, temporality, and inclusivity. Soundwalking and soundsitting are both methods of experiencing soundscape: soundwalking involves exploring and listening to the sounds of the environment while moving through it, while soundsitting involves sitting still in a particular place and listening to the sounds that exist in situ. The soundsit provides the participant or researcher with a fixed perspective and place to observe and experience sounds, within a defined soundscape context, enabling them to gain a longer-term experiential understanding of a space. Analogous with acoustic measurements, soundsitting is comparable to capturing average energy equivalent sound level LAeq measurements in allowing the perception of and activities within a soundscape to settle into a steady state. Beyond obtaining a longer-term impression of a chosen sound environment, soundsitting allows for a participant to disengage with the visual, which allows for deeper engagement and focus when listening to a soundscape; in addition, soundsitting removes the safety implications and distractions of walking practice and, as such, is a more inclusive form of activity, allowing those who are unable to walk to engage in the practice. The static nature of the listening experience allows for a different type of immersion through engaged active listening, something which is not possible on a soundwalk, allowing for deeper qualitative analysis and insight into the soundscape of a specific space or location. The primary findings show with test group of n = 6 that both methods are effective soundscape study tools, and further work with diverse groups is required.

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“…a very effective methodology(DREVER, 2020;CARRAS, 2019) by the very nature of it being a walking method excludes those who are unable, for example, to walk for whatever reason.…”

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Addressing Diversity and Inclusivity in Soundscape Research, Developing Methodologies for Under- And Non-Represented Participants

Bruce

2023

BCIJ

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Soundscape research has often struggled to deal with multidimensional phenomenological perception of the sound environment. When teaching sound related studies and conducting soundscape research, often little or no consideration is given to addressing the diversity of participants taking part in the class or study. For example, there is often no consideration made of a participant's hearing ability, with many of the standard methods and practices emphasising and assuming ‘normal’ hearing. There have been some studies with consideration of hearing impairment, but aural diversity is not all about impairment, diversity of unimpaired listeners can often be related to ‘quite basic mechanisms like pitch detection’ (DAVIES 2019). The consideration of diversity in soundscape research creates a further epistemological problem of perception. This paper discusses the author’s experience from their practice based research to start addressing the issues of inclusivity and diversity, suggesting how the creative industries can adapt existing methods and be at the forefront of new methods including gamification, social data collection and analysis, implementation of VR and AR in community studies, along with the consideration of adapting soundwalking into ‘soundsitting’, which can both raise awareness of the sound environment and obtain phenomenologically rich empirical data from inclusive and diverse under- and non-represented participants.

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Soundwalks: An experiential path to new sonic art

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

The Sonic Imagery of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Sonic Imagery of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Extending Soundwalking Practice: Soundsitting as an Inclusive and Complementary Method to Soundwalking

Addressing Diversity and Inclusivity in Soundscape Research, Developing Methodologies for Under- And Non-Represented Participants

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