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

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，1750-1950”将恢复和调查自然声音的表现，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。该项目还将探讨自然声音和自然沉默在其他历史时期是如何构建的复杂性，以及它如何继续塑造当代对自然声音的态度。在这个过程中，它将创造一种可转移的方法，用于思考相对短暂的现象如何影响我们对过去、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，特别是在留声机记录技术广泛传播之前，大自然的声音通常以文字形式保存下来。此外，它的情感和情感影响可能最好通过文本分析和档案来源来理解。通过跨越两个世纪的研究，跨越欧洲几个国家的背景，该项目将论证自然环境中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至关重要的作用。通过研究声音被记录和以书面形式呈现的方式，以及它们在留声机录音之前和早期如何引发读者特定的情感，我们提供了创新的方法来理解人类与自然的关系，以及在理解我们自己的时代作为人类世的长期准备过程中对变化的看法。在研究浪漫主义、早期自然保护主义和现代生态思想之间的连续性和不连续性的基础上，该项目将发展一种跨学科的方法，将文学史、科学史、声音研究和环境人文学科的概念和方法联系起来，这将有助于建立声音的环境史。该项目将扩大我们的理解，不仅是在一个以激进的环境转型为标志的时代如何理解和呈现自然之声，而且是它在培养早期环境变化意识中的作用。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，声音的文学表现对环境意识兴起的影响，以及从多个角度探索声音在构建自然环境概念中的历史作用的跨学科方法的发展。

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.