Monday 14 May 2012

Current Thesis Outline


1) Introduction

 1.1 The Sound Environment – Brief introduction to the notion of the sound environment

Opening our Ears
                        1.2 - The Eye and the Ear; sense-ratios and the dominance of visuality 
                        1.3 - Opening our Ears; Sound and the Arts
                        1.4 - Acoustic Ecology; in theory and practice…

2) The Soundmap & Acoustic Ecology

The SoundmapIntroduction and Critique
                        2.1 – Overview of existing soundmap form  
                        2.2 – Critique

Schizophonia
                        2.3 - Schafer's Schizophonia
                        2.4 - Schizophonia and the Soundmap
                        
3) Related Practices within Acoustic Ecology…

 The Soundwalk
                        3.1 - Max Neuhaus & the Soundwalk
                        3.2 - Emphasis on Site-listening 
  
Soundscape Composition 
                        3.3 - Soundscape composition and creative engagement with the soundscape and technology in the work of Hildegard Westerkamp

4) Sound Map: Extensions & Developments

 Soundmap Extensions 
                        4.1 – Focus on progressive examples – Urban Remix etc…

5) Development of a Wellington Regional Soundmap

Main points of development;

Site Listening and AR
                        5.1 - Site Listening; presence and difference
                        5.2 – AR & site listening 
                        5.3 – Reduced Listening & Site Listening

Interface, Narrative & Intertextuality 
                        5.4 – Narrative intertextuality and the social/semiotic dimension of sound
                        5.5 – Multi-media & , multiple - senses
                        5.7 – Cartography and the visual                                          
                                 representation of sound
                                
       
6) Conclusions