Experiencing the soundscape with mobile mixing tools and participatory methods

Abstract

Neighborhood as a living room" is a subproject of a large Creative Europe project "The People's Smart Sculpture". The project aimed to raise the interest and participation of especially young people towards their sonic surroundings. The article examines the issues of creating and experiencing soundscapes in mobile soundscape workshop. The soundscape platform and the workshop method was created to experiment mobile and participatory methods with sound and sonic experiences. The perception of the workshops indicated that the pedagogical approach and the orientation part of the workshop has an effect on the level of participation and individual sonic experience. The article concludes that the soundscape platform and the workshop methods implemented in the project enhanced participation and engagement to the topic among the participants. The soundscape workshop and the tools created for it offered the young people a possibility to participate in the conversation about the urban sonic environment, changes in it and the future of it.

Towards Participatory Design of City Soundscapes

“…We developed a soundscape mixing application called SoundSpace to increase user interaction by developing soundscapes from building blocks stored in ADAM [20]. The SoundSpace tool allows the user to test and play with soundscape elements [5]. The user can search audio files from ADAM, and listen to sounds before selecting them to create a soundscape segment by segment (Fig.…”