Perspectives from Practice
Perspectives from Practice
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实践视角
DOI:
10.1080/07494467.2016.1140472
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发表时间:
2016
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0.4
通讯作者:
Hogg B
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作者:
Hogg B
Over the past half century landscape has emerged as a topic of study in fields as diverse as ecology and art history. From a place (literally) in the background of several academic disciplines, its importance as a site of cultural work (Macfarlane, 2012; Scharma, 1995; Stephens, 2000; Tilley, 1994), an indicator of human relations with the broader life world (Plumwood, 2002; Spirn, 1998), a series of ideologically and critically loaded aesthetic viewpoints (Cosgrove, 1985; Lefebvre, 2010/1974; Morton, 2007), and the place in which human life occurs (Bachelard, 1994/1958; Bollnow, 2011; Heidegger, 1977/1954) has been gradually uncovered by a broad and interdisciplinary assortment of scholars. The appropriation of ‘the landscape idea’by the Vancouver Soundscape community in the late 1960s coined the term ‘soundscape’, a term which has come under increased critique in recent years (Hogg, 2013; Ingold, 2000, 2007; Michael, 2011). The emergent field of sound studies (Birdsall & Enns, 2011; Blesser & Salter, 2006; LaBelle, 2010; Picker, 2003; Sterne, 2012) has cast a more critical eye on many of the original ‘soundscape’assumptions, not least the extent to which categorical valuations of sound in the landscape had been assumed, uncritically, to carry a more general validity than the diversity of actual human experiences—in a nutshell, the notion that Nature= good; Urban= bad. It is against this diverse and cross-disciplinary background that the AHRC-funded research project ‘Landscape Quartet’was formulated in 2011–2012 as a means to interrogate, through practice-based research and philosophical speculation and reflection, some of the issues invoked when sound artists and musicians attempt to make new music and sound art in the landscape. Key to the Landscape Quartet approach has been the idea of participating with and claiming a presence in the ‘landscape’, rather than with some of the more explicitly or implicitly aestheticising and objectifying notions of ‘straight’field recording. Related approaches have also been developed by, among others, the US-based group ‘EcoSono’(see Burtner, 2011), sound artists Dallas Simpson, John Grzinich, and Lee Patterson, and Cardiff’s environmental improvisers ‘Team Sports’(http://www. bangthebore. org/archives/3498). During the research phase of Landscape Quartet a series of symposia were organised at which ongoing work was presented with public and ‘expert’listeners in attendance. Following on from these symposia and for this special edition of Contemporary Music Review a set of written papers has been curated from Katharine Norman, Michael