Sound diaries: a method of listening to place
Sound diaries: a method of listening to place
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声音日记:一种聆听地点的方法
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2011
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G. Waitt
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M. Duffy;G. Waitt
This paper develops a methodology for understanding how relations between people and place are co-constituted through music and sounds. Using the case of Four Winds Festival Bermagui, New South Wales, the paper discusses our use of “sound diaries” as a means to better understand the role of sound in participants’ understanding of place. Highlighted within our discussion is how our experimental methodology overcomes some of the inherent problems of researching so-called “sound geographies.” Sound diaries provide a possible technique to provide partial insights into the embodied knowledge triggered by sounds and music. Woven within these personal interpretations and their attributed meanings are more general themes concerning the concept of soundscapes, practices of listening, the role of sound in the mutual constitution of place and identities, and the embodied underpinnings of place-making practices in relation to sound and music. Introduction Only in the last decade or so have geographers started to explicitly consider the importance of sonic qualities in their analysis of society and space (Smith 2000). Geographers could no longer ignore the experience of music and sounds given the growing attention in the discipline to the sensual body to help understand everyday spaces. Listening practices demands thinking not just in terms of representing places but as a practice that forges places through bodies (Smith 2000). Yet, to investigate this is difficult, because our responses to sound are transient and difficult to articulate in words.1 How to research the sonic qualities of place? This paper addresses the Duffy & Waitt • Sound Diaries 119 Aether Vol. vii, 119–136, January 2011 © Copyright 2011, The Center for Geographic Studies • California State University, Northridge Sound Diaries: A Method for Listening to Place