Frontier Zones 2020 Spring School in Tunis – ((audio)) Ästhetische Strategien

Introduction: Working with Sound in Urban Environments

Methods

Optional methods for Spring School Frontier Zones:
– the documentation of sounds: field recording
– the analytical-documentary processing: audio paper
– the re-performance of sound structures and rhythms as:
>> (a) sonic musical intervention
>> (b) mobile installation of distributed local sounds using smartphone and mobile devices

Soundwalking-Literature

Hildegard Westerkamp (2006): »Soundwalking as Ecological Practice.« First published in The West Meets the East in Acoustic Ecology Proceedings for the International Conference on Acoustic Ecology. Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan.

Frauke Behrendt (2014): »Creative Sonification of Mobility and Sonic interaction with Urban Space: An ethnographic Case Study of a GPS Sound Walk.« In: Gopinath / Stanyek (Hg.): The Oxford Handbook Of Mobile Music Studies Vol. 2. Oxford: OU press.

Andra McCartney (2014): »Soundwalking. Creating moving environmental Sound Narratives« In: Gopinath / Stanyek (Hg.): The Oxford Handbook Of Mobile Music Studies Vol. 2. Oxford: OU press.

Theory of Urban Rhythm

Sara Adhitya: Musical Cities. London 2017 (Chapter 1)

Transl. Excerpts from Rolf Großmann: “Rhythmus.” In: Morat, Daniel, Ziemer, Hansjakob (Hg.): Handbuch Sound. Geschichte – Begriffe – Ansätze. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, S. 71-74

Sounds of the city – Introductory Game

Here you can find the recording of our sound-game. Complete with cars driving and honking, construction work being done and merchants praising their offerings.