The Sound of Nature: Soundscapes and Environmental Awareness, 1750-1950

自然之声：音景和环境意识，1750-1950

• 批准号: AH/W010933/1
• 负责人: Wilko Graf Von Hardenberg
• 金额: $ 35.02万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW010933%2F1
• 关键词: Sound; Nature; Soundscapes; Environmental; Awareness

The Sound of Nature: Soundscapes and Environmental Awareness, 1750-1950, hosted by the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin and Cardiff University, will recover and investigate representations of natural sound in a period that is frequently considered to have been central in constructing contemporary environmental ideologies and in developing institutions for conservation. The project will also interrogate the complexity of how natural sound and natural silence are constructed in other historical periods and how that continues to shape contemporary attitudes to the sound of nature. In the process, it will create a transferable methodology for thinking about how comparatively ephemeral phenomena shape our understanding of the environment in the past, present and future.Sound is both an evanescent and an omnipresent phenomenon. As a historical artefact, especially in the time before the widespread diffusion of phonographic recording technologies, the sound of nature is most often preserved in writing. Furthermore, its affective and emotional impact can perhaps best be understood through textual analysis and archival sources. Through research that spans two centuries and moves across several national contexts in Europe, the project will argue that the perception and written representation of sounds in natural settings played a crucial role in developing and fostering environmental awareness and a conservation discourse. By examining the ways in which sounds were recorded and presented in writing and how they triggered specific sets of emotions in readers in the time before and in the early days of phonographic recording, we offer innovative ways to understand human relationships with nature and perceptions of change in the long run-up to understanding our own epoch as the Anthropocene.Building upon research concerned with the continuities and discontinuities between Romanticism, early conservationism, and modern ecological thinking, the project will develop an interdisciplinary methodology which connects concepts and approaches taken from literary history, the history of science, sound studies, and the environmental humanities, and which will contribute to the establishment of an environmental history of sound. The project will expand our understanding not only of how the sound of nature is understood and presented in an era marked by radical environmental transformation but also its role in developing an early awareness of environmental change.The project will be organised into three work packages looking respectively at the analysis of the role of sound in the establishment of nature conservation, the impact of literary representations of sound on the rise of an environmental awareness, and the development of an interdisciplinary methodology exploring the historical role of sound in constructing conceptions of the natural environment from a multiplicity of perspectives.

由柏林洪堡大学和卡迪夫大学主办的“自然之声：声景与环境意识，1750-1950”将恢复和研究自然声音的表现，这一时期通常被认为是构建当代环境意识形态和发展保护机构的核心。该项目还将探讨其他历史时期如何构建自然声音和自然寂静的复杂性，以及如何继续塑造当代对自然声音的态度。在此过程中，它将创建一种可转移的方法论，用于思考相对短暂的现象如何塑造我们对过去、现在和未来环境的理解。声音既是一种转瞬即逝的现象，又是一种无所不在的现象。作为一种历史文物，尤其是在留声机录音技术广泛传播之前的时代，自然的声音最常以书面形式保存下来。此外，通过文本分析和档案来源也许可以最好地理解其情感和情感影响。通过跨越两个世纪、跨越欧洲多个国家背景的研究，该项目将论证自然环境中声音的感知和书面表达在发展和培养环境意识和保护话语方面发挥着至关重要的作用。通过研究声音记录和以书面形式呈现的方式，以及它们如何在留声机录音之前和早期引发读者的特定情感，我们提供了创新的方法来理解人类与自然的关系和对变化的看法，以理解我们自己的时代作为人类世。 项目将开发一种跨学科方法，将文学史、科学史、声音研究和环境人文学科的概念和方法联系起来，这将有助于建立声音环境史。该项目不仅将扩大我们对如何在一个以彻底的环境变革为标志的时代理解和呈现自然之声的理解，而且还将扩大我们对自然之声在发展早期环境变化意识中的作用的理解。该项目将分为三个工作包，分别分析声音在建立自然保护中的作用、声音的文学表现形式对环境意识兴起的影响，以及探索声音的历史作用的跨学科方法的发展 从多个角度构建自然环境的概念。