SOUNDSCAPES STUDIES AND METHODS

edited by Helmi Järviluoma & Gregg Wagstaff

Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology Publ. 9
University of Turku Department of Art, Literature and Music, Series A 51 Helsinki 2002

This collection of essays, edited by Helmi Järviluoma and Gregg Wagstaff, will be essential to anyone interested in the sonic environment. A growing ecological awareness in the later half of the 20th century has given rise to a widening concern for the state of our soundscapes. the last few years have witnessed promising developments in soundscape studies, and this book is the first collection to focus upon soundscape research methods. The contributors to this volume form an international and multidisciplinary team of researchers, from Architecture, Ethnomusicology, Sonic Art, (Time) Geography, Biology, Sociology and Urban planning.

«These studies of the acoustic order provide models of a rich cultural phenomenology which promises to renovate the stale hermeneutics of much recent cultural theory.» Bruce Johnson, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales

Contents

– Soundscape Studies and Methods – An Introduction
– Soundscape Studies, Experimental Music, and Time Geography
– A City Traced by Soundscape
– The Sonic Identity of European Cities. A presentation of the work conducted by the Swiss-French researcher Pascal Amphoux
– Street Listening: A Characterisation of the Sound Environment: The «qualified listening in motion» method
– Site Interpretation by Skilled Listeners. Methods for Communicating Soundscapes in Landscape Architecture and Planning
– Towards a Social Ecological Soundscape
– Rhytmicity
– Looking for a ‘Right Method’ – Approaching Beyond
– You don’t hear anything ‘round here! Cognitive Maps and Auditory Perception
– The Urban Nightingale – or some theoretical considerations about sound and noise

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