Sound has become recognised as a medium that can make people question and reflect about many things including their own autobiographical experiences and narratives. As well as how movement and interaction in urban environments is partly influenced by the built environment, and temporal dimensions of the everyday.
Listening to sound whether that may be through field recordings (selected individual pieces of audio) and/or soundscapes (audio compositions created from a range of recordings) sheds light on how sound can both be an investigatory tool and an emotive medium. Stopping and listening can engender an experience(s) making the subconsciously known and mundane a revealing and surreal encounter of the world that we live in. Consequently the ordinary can become the extraordinary.
Included in the Sound Collection are both field recordings of different places in London, and a recently created soundscape of London. These two different forms reveal how sound can both be selected but also edited and manipulated to create sonic experiences, so the listener can discover the multi layered and diverse sonic character of a major city.
The soundscape is also downloadable. This is an option that may expose to the listener how when listening to sounds where they did not derive, sounds impact on ones feelings, actions and connection to the places we may come into contact with.
Bibliography
Green, C. (2006) A DISCUSSION IN SOUNDSCAPE
Grohn, C. (2005) THESIS ON FIELD RECORDINGS
Hemm, T. (2007) LOCATION, SOUND, LISTENER, LISTENING
Militzer, S. (2006) TONES, SOUNDS & NOISES (PART 1)