Showing posts with label Thesis Outline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thesis Outline. Show all posts

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