Geographies of Urban Sound [PDF]
Torsten Wissmann. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. x and 264 pp., maps, photos, tables, illustrations, bibliography, index.
T. Bell
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Dissonance: scientific paradigms underpinning the study of sound in geography [PDF]
The objective of this article is to approach the different conceptions of sound – and its relations to the underlying scientific paradigms – that emerged throughout the history of geography. There has been a growing interest among geographers in understanding the spatialities of sound, and geographies of sound have become an emerging subfield of the ...
Daniel Paiva
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A walk of art: the potential of the sound walk as practice in cultural geography [PDF]
Some of the most experimental and exciting work using sound and spatiality has come from the art world. This essay traces how an exciting hybrid of sound art and walking - the sound walk - has evolved over the last century. Examining the latest examples of sound walks in London and New York, and reflecting on the author's experience of creating a sound
Toby Butler
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Infernal Sound Cues: Aural Geographies and the Politics of Noise [PDF]
Every time Hamlet dies, “the world,” as Shakespearian scholar Wes Folkerth puts it, “fills up again with sound […] To hear, Hamlet tells us with his final breath, is what it is to be alive”. While that sentiment would be rightly and hotly contested by the Deaf community, it strikes those of us who can hear and who have no experience of Deaf culture as
Beth Meszaros
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‘And she flies! Beautiful’: the dislocating geography of football sound [PDF]
The overarching interest of this paper is in articulating the affective conditions of football’s play. It undertakes this through a consideration of the sonorous dimension of football, mapping its sounds across a framework borrowed from recent writings on sound-art and sonic geography. Specifically it considers a continuum articulated by Will Scrimshaw
Trail, Margaret
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Moving sonic geographies: realising the Eerie countryside in music and sound [PDF]
This paper investigates how sound produces and transforms space and place as it moves and travels. In charting the movement of sound from field recording to music studio, and from rehearsal to performance space, this paper examines the aesthetic and affective geographies that are developed and the consequences of this travel.
Julian Holloway
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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound [PDF]
AbstractThis paper illuminates The Minneapolis Sound's emergence from the urban soundscapes of late 20th century Minneapolis. Turning to the 1960s and 1970s, I trace the genre's geohistorical emergence to a Black diasporic community who found within marginality the possibilities to spatialise an experimental world across the urban margins.
Zuhri James
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Sound Art Geographies: Listening at the Limits of Audibility
ABSTRACTThis paper explores the generative yet underexamined relation between human geography and sound art. Sound art has long been concerned with issues of spatiality, place and environment and yet interest in sound art from human geographers has been somewhat sparse, particularly when compared to the wealth of literature on visual art in the ...
George Burdon
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Sound Landscape Geography of Poltava City
Rostyslav Demchenko
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A Geography-Specific Approach to Estimating the Distributional Impact of Highway Tolls: An Application to the Puget Sound Region of Washington State [PDF]
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