Aaron Collier’s one man play, Frequencies Panel discussion on CBC’s Ideas on the relationship between individuals and physics and perception and physical phenomena. Radio Lab : Ears don’t lie and Hallucinating Sound Steven Feld’s blogsite An audio map for Vancouver…
Stoller, Paul. (1989). The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania Press. University of Pennsylvania Press In ‘The Taste of Ethnographic Things’, Paul Stoller explores the methodological role of senses in his long-term fieldwork among the…
Carter, Paul. (2004). Ambiguous Traces, Mishearing, and Auditory Space. In Erlmann, Veit. Hearing Cultures. Berg. Ch. 3 43-63 Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix. (1980). A Thousand Plateaus. (B. Massumi, translation). University of Minnesota Press. Droumeva, Milena. (2017). Soundmapping as critical…
Sonic ethnography—soundwalk activity: Use an audio recording device as you move through, or in and out of, discrete spaces; continue recording as you pass from one location to another. Rather than trying to capture any representative sound of one…
Perception involves the dependence of the senses. Their union is then central to the ways in which we come to learn about, understand, and represent the world. Increased sensory engagement advocates that more attention be devoted to the significance of…
The subjective mediation of sound underlines the constant possibility it contains to be misheard or misinterpreted. Taking the force and affect of sounds into account highlights the constructive cultural potential of their ambiguity; the distance between the intended and received…
Though we are enveloped in a constant continuum of sounds—many of which we have little control over—our perception of them is not entirely passive and inborn but rather shaped by cultural, historical, and political conditions. If sounds are reflective of…
Symbolic significance is derived from the more fundamental field of indexicality—as the sound reaches and relates to an “other” listener—and indexicality relies in turn on intrinsic material properties and propensities for noises. The pre-symbolic force of sounds—manifest through movement, vibrations,…
Ethnographies may gain from a wider focus on senses and their interdependence. Sense data is often eclipsed in the prioritization of sight. As explained elsewhere (4), visual perception is often equated to knowing, assuming an epistemic authority and sense of…
After we’ve had our respective naps and a long game of tag, Amelia proposes that we go for a walk. Do we agree on the type of walk, I cue. Yes. We get just a few feet from home and…
