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

1750-1950年由柏林洪堡大学和卡迪夫大学主办的自然之声：声音景观和环境意识，将在一个经常被认为在构建当代环境意识形态和发展保护机构方面发挥核心作用的时期恢复和调查自然声音的表现。该项目还将询问在其他历史时期如何构建自然之声和自然沉默的复杂性，以及这如何继续塑造当代对自然之声的态度。在这个过程中，它将创造一种可移植的方法论，用于思考相对短暂的现象如何塑造我们对过去、现在和未来的环境理解。声音既是一种短暂的现象，也是一种无处不在的现象。作为一种历史文物，特别是在录音技术广泛传播之前的时代，自然之声最常以文字形式保存下来。此外，它的情感和情感影响也许可以通过文本分析和档案资料来最好地理解。通过跨越两个世纪的研究，并跨越欧洲几个国家的背景，该项目将辩称，在自然环境中对声音的感知和书面表现在发展和培养环境意识和保护话语方面发挥了关键作用。通过研究声音在录音之前和早期被记录和呈现的方式，以及它们如何在读者中触发特定的情感集，我们提供了创新的方法来理解人类与自然的关系和对长期变化的看法，从而理解我们所处的时代作为人类。该项目将基于对浪漫主义、早期环保主义和现代生态思维之间的连续性和间断性的研究，开发一种跨学科的方法，将文学史、科学史、声音研究和环境人文学的概念和方法联系起来，这将有助于建立环境声音历史。这项计划不但会加深我们对自然之声的理解和认识，也会加深我们对环境变化的早期认识。这项计划将分为三个工作组合，分别探讨声音在自然保育中的角色分析、声音的文学表现对环境意识的提升的影响，以及发展一种跨学科的方法，从多个角度探讨声音在构建自然环境概念方面的历史角色。

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.