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Listening Online: What Social Media Tells Us About Soundscape

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Listening Online: What Social Media Tells Us About Soundscape

We seemingly will happily describe a view, a meal, or a holiday in great detail, but without any reference to sound, to think of it, how many activities in life do we talk about focusing on the sound? And yet, if we look carefully, there is a substantial body of material where people do talk about sound, usually in the form of ‘noise’. You’ll find it on the endless scroll of social media.

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Re-evaluation and mapping our sense of place and time with the ‘sonic dérive, GPS data and binaural recordings : Sonic mapping of desire paths and places of sonic interest.

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Re-evaluation and mapping our sense of place and time with the ‘sonic dérive, GPS data and binaural recordings : Sonic mapping of desire paths and places of sonic interest.

The practice of soundwalking and recording has been implemented as a method in artistic composition pedagogy, soundscape awareness interventions, in addition to social science, psychology and acoustics research. This paper explores the author’s phenomenological practice of recording sonic dérives, psychogeographic sound wanderings through urban and rural environments; exploring both consciously and unconsciously environments and paths of sonic interest, leading to the creation and mapping of sonic ‘desire’ paths.

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Are we hearing the same soundscape? Who's listening, how, and to what?'

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Are we hearing the same soundscape? Who's listening, how, and to what?'

Soundscape research has often struggled to deal with the multidimensional experience of the phenomenological perception of the sound environment. Whilst there have been a number of important large multidisciplinary projects formed from a wide range of stakeholder disciplines, results have often been epistemologically split between interpreting the complex multidimensional, multi-epistemological, phenomenological experience of a soundscape for some disciplines, versus the positivist, objectivist quantitative approach of other disciplines.