A Sonic Palimpsest: Revisiting Chatham Historic Dockyards

该项目旨在调查声音在影响我们对空间和地方的体验方面的作用，重点是遗产遗址，并以查塔姆历史船坞为例进行研究。该项目将探索如何在遗产背景下利用声音来沉浸和吸引公众，通过听觉手段提供对空间和地点的替代解释，并揭示与重要遗址接触的新形式。这项调查将通过开发对现场敏感的作品来进行，并收集观众经验的经验数据，提供理论和实践方面的批判性反馈。将提供一系列成果，包括数字化电子音频档案(来自约10,000人的档案录音)。查塔姆历史船坞信托基金举办的活动包括：船坞博物馆内的音乐作品和音响装置、公共项目网站(提供正在进行的项目的文件和评估)、中学生互动项目、学术期刊上的出版物和将在会议上发表的论文。查塔姆船坞的案例研究提供了一个探索这些概念的独特机会，提供了多样化和引人入胜的物理空间和丰富的遗产，在过去400年中不断演变，反映了时代的最新技术和工业创新-从帆船到蒸汽到核技术。虽然建筑物的视觉结构仍然存在，但人类活动的声音早已被沉默。这个项目提供了一个重新唤醒这些失落的声音的机会，并通过新鲜的耳朵重新发现丰富的工业遗产。通过查塔姆船坞的案例研究，将开发一种重建历史遗产地的创新方法，这种方法将在适当调整后适用于其他情况，从而具有国家意义，如果不是国际意义的话。

The project seeks to investigate the role of sound in influencing our experience of spaces and places, focusing on heritage sites and using the Chatham Historic Dockyard as a case study. This project will explore how sound can be utilised within heritage contexts to immerse and engage members of the public, providing alternative interpretations of space and place through aural means and revealing new forms of engagement with significant sites. This investigation will be approached through the development of site-sensitive works, with empirical data collection of audience experience providing critical feedback on theory and practice.A series of outputs will be delivered including a digitised electronic audio archive (from archival recordings of approx. 80 hours held by the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust), music compositions and sound installations within the Dockyard Museum, a public project website (providing documentation and evaluation of the project in progress), interactive projects for secondary school students, publications in academic journals and papers to be presented at conferences.The case study of Chatham Dockyard offers a unique opportunity to explore these notions, providing diverse and compelling physical spaces and a rich heritage which has evolved over the last 400 years to reflect at all times the latest technological and industrial innovations of the eras - from sail to steam to nuclear technologies. While the visual fabric of the buildings remains, the sounds of human activities have long since been silenced. This project provides an opportunity to reawaken these lost sounds and to rediscover a rich industrial heritage through fresh ears. Through the case study of Chatham Dockyard an innovative method of recreating past ages of heritage sites will be developed, which will be applicable in other situations with appropriate adjustments, and thereby of national if not international significance.