soundwalking

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Re-evaluation and mapping our sense of place and time with the ‘sonic dérive, GPS data and binaural recordings : Sonic mapping of desire paths and places of sonic interest.

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Re-evaluation and mapping our sense of place and time with the ‘sonic dérive, GPS data and binaural recordings : Sonic mapping of desire paths and places of sonic interest.

The practice of soundwalking and recording has been implemented as a method in artistic composition pedagogy, soundscape awareness interventions, in addition to social science, psychology and acoustics research. This paper explores the author’s phenomenological practice of recording sonic dérives, psychogeographic sound wanderings through urban and rural environments; exploring both consciously and unconsciously environments and paths of sonic interest, leading to the creation and mapping of sonic ‘desire’ paths.

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Are we hearing the same soundscape? Who's listening, how, and to what?'

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Are we hearing the same soundscape? Who's listening, how, and to what?'

Soundscape research has often struggled to deal with the multidimensional experience of the phenomenological perception of the sound environment. Whilst there have been a number of important large multidisciplinary projects formed from a wide range of stakeholder disciplines, results have often been epistemologically split between interpreting the complex multidimensional, multi-epistemological, phenomenological experience of a soundscape for some disciplines, versus the positivist, objectivist quantitative approach of other disciplines.

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Soundsitting as an additional method to Soundwalking - UKAN conference poster

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Soundsitting as an additional method to Soundwalking - UKAN conference poster

Soundsitting as an alternative to soundwalking offers a number of additional benefits to the traditional soundwalk, including inclusivity for visually impaired and those unable to walk. Soundsitting is a way of obtaining deep immersive listening in a single soundscape context, rather than transitioning through differing contexts on a walk. Both methods are complimentary.

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London Binaural Soundscape // Tottenham Court Road to Charing Cross Road soundwalk

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London Binaural Soundscape // Tottenham Court Road to Charing Cross Road soundwalk

This recording was made on the 3rd April 2008 as I undertook a soundwalk from Tottenham Court Road underground station, along Charing Cross Road (via Denmark Street). This is a part of London which 13 years later is VERY different, many of the landmark buildings have gone to make way for Crossrail and the new TCR station.