Hearing Trouble: Sound Art in Post-Conflict Cities

听力障碍是一个跨学科的研究项目，旨在通过对声音和声学艺术的研究，更好地了解城市环境，重点关注冲突后城市正在经历快速和彻底变化的特殊情况。我们的研究将集中在柏林和贝尔法斯特，这两个城市支持充满活力的声音艺术家社区，拥有相似的建筑和规划文化。与绝大多数研究项目通过视觉焦点检查建成环境不同，我们的研究将通过多个听觉角度分析和响应快速变化的城市景观。该项目将由一名声波艺术历史学家/实践者(PI)和一名建筑师/建筑历史学家(Co-I)领导，他们通过他们的研究小组《重组城市：声波艺术与城市建筑》(www.reposingthecity.org)为合作研究奠定了坚实的基础。听力障碍将是这个小组出现的第一个重大国际研究项目，展示了声波艺术和建筑之间合作研究的巨大潜力。首先，我们将批判性地分析柏林自1989年以来响应城市冲突后条件的声音艺术项目和倡议。柏林是国际公认的声学艺术研究和创作的领先者，在声学艺术展览、教育计划和涉及建筑环境问题的倡议方面有着丰富的历史。我们将分析的项目范围从全市范围的声音艺术节到城市和公共空间的特定地点的声音装置。主要项目包括柏林的Tuned City音乐节和Peter Cusack的柏林Sonic Places(2012)，该项目将声音艺术家、规划师、建筑师和社区聚集在一起，考虑在柏林进行三个主要的重新开发地点。我们将进一步研究波恩·霍伦，这是一个正在进行的项目，由柏林的策展人卡斯滕·塞法斯构思和指导，波恩市每年(2010-2020年)任命一名城市声音艺术家。通过研究档案材料(即项目文件和评论)，通过采访艺术家、策展人、艺术行政人员、社区团体、建筑师/规划师和观众，我们将展示健全的艺术倡议如何影响人们对柏林和波恩的理解。我们对不同项目的批判性分析将从声学艺术和建筑的角度结合起来，呈现声音研究和建筑研究的独特融合。使用柏林和波恩作为示范项目的来源，然后我们将在贝尔法斯特考察自1998年以来的声音艺术，贝尔法斯特是一个冲突后的城市，声音艺术从业者社区正在崛起，关于建筑环境的讨论越来越多。在贝尔法斯特，我们将同样采访广泛的从业者和其他利益相关者，包括建筑师和城市规划师。我们的最终目标是让这项研究为贝尔法斯特的未来发展提供信息，作为其他欧盟城市的潜在榜样。通过在贝尔法斯特与建筑师、规划师和声音艺术家的合作研讨会，我们将开发和提出考虑与城市环境有关的声音的新设计策略。此外，通过与艺术和建筑社区以及城市规划官员的信息会议，我们将展示如何对声音环境进行更细微的理解，以帮助建设更好的社区。这些讨论和先前的研究将构成一份咨询说明的基础，该说明将就规划和健全方面的良好做法提出建议，以及一本合著的书、会议文件和一个网站。随着北爱尔兰的规划权在2015年从中央控制移交给地方当局，听证麻烦被提出。因此，这项研究有可能对政策产生重大而直接的影响，并最终对建筑环境产生影响。

Hearing Trouble is a cross-disciplinary research project that seeks to better understand the urban environment through an examination of sound and sonic art, focusing on the particular conditions of post-conflict cities undergoing rapid and radical change. Our research will focus on Berlin and Belfast, cities that support vibrant communities of sound artists and that have similar architecture and planning cultures. In contrast to the vast majority of research projects that examine the built environment through a visual focus, our research will analyse and respond to rapidly changing cityscapes via multiple aural perspectives. The project will be lead by a sonic arts historian/practitioner (PI), and an architect/architectural historian (Co-I), who have established a strong foundation of collaborative research through their research group Recomposing the City: Sonic Art and Urban Architectures (www.recomposingthecity.org). Hearing Trouble will be the first major international research project to emerge from this group, demonstrating the significant potential of collaborative research between sonic arts and architecture. In the first instance, we will critically analyse sound art projects and initiatives in Berlin since 1989 that respond to the city's post-conflict conditions. Berlin is internationally recognized as a leader in sonic arts research and creation and has a rich history of sound art exhibition, education programmes, and initiatives that engage issues of the built environment. The projects we will analyse range from city-wide sound art festivals to site-specific sound installations in urban and public space. Key projects include the Tuned City festival in Berlin, and Peter Cusack's Berlin Sonic Places (2012), which brought together sound artists, planners, architects and communities in considering three major redevelopment sites in Berlin. We will further study Bonn Hoeren, an ongoing project conceived and directed by the Berlin-based curator Carsten Seiffarth in which the city of Bonn appoints a City Sound Artist each year (2010-2020). By examining archival material (i.e. project documentation and critique), and by interviewing artists, curators, arts administrators, community groups, architects/planners and audiences, we will show how sound art initiatives have affected the ways in which Berlin and Bonn are understood. Our critical analysis of different projects will emerge from combined sonic arts and architecture perspectives, presenting a unique merging of sound studies and architectural research. Using Berlin and Bonn as sources of exemplar projects, we will then examine sound art since 1998 in Belfast, a post-conflict city with an emerging community of sound art practitioners and a growing discourse about the built environment. In Belfast we will similarly interview a wide range of practitioners and other stakeholders, including architects and city planners. Our ultimate goal is for the research to inform the future development of Belfast, as a potential exemplar for other EU cities. Through Collaborative Workshops with architects, planners, and sound artists in Belfast, we will develop and propose new design strategies that consider sound in relation to the urban environment. Further, through Information Sessions with arts and architecture communities and city planning officials, we will show how a more nuanced understanding of the sound environment can help build better communities. These discussions and the earlier research will form the basis of an Advice Note which will give recommendations on good practice in relation to planning and sound, as well as a co-authored book, conference papers and a Web site. Hearing Trouble is proposed as Northern Ireland's planning powers are being devolved from centralised control to local authorities in 2015. Thus this research has the potential for significant and immediate impact on policy as well as its eventual repercussions in the built environment.