Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool

Duffy, Michelle; Waitt, Gordon R; Harada, Theresa

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2016.06.006

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“…Sound provides an under-utilised sensory departure point for understanding the fabric of urban spaces (Connell and Gibson, 2003;Atkinson, 2007). Nevertheless, inspired by antecedent work in cultural geography on soundscapes (Smith, 1994), an interest in emotional and affective geographies of sound has emerged in recent years, with researchers seeking to better understand the impact of sound on emotions, bodies, place and everyday experiences (Thompson and Biddle, 2013;Duffy et al, 2016;Doughty et al, 2016;Gallagher, 2016;Gallagher et al, 2017). Sound is not merely observed; it is felt, with the capacity to move bodies and affect particular emotions and social relations (Doughty et al, 2016;Gallagher, 2016).…”

Section: Materiality Sound and Homementioning

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Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments

Kerr

Gibson

Klocker

2018

Emotion, Space and Society

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Apartment residents share space vertically and horizontally, and apartment materiality shapes their experiences of sound and space. Across diverse contexts, rapid urban population growth has prompted a shift towards higher-density dwellings-often a pronounced departure from cultural norms of detached, suburban housing. Yet little is known about the everyday emotional experiences of apartment residents. This paper draws on insights gathered from families, with children, living in apartments in Sydney, Australia-a city undergoing profound densification. Developers typically market high-rise apartments as a transitional housing form for singles and couples. However, a sizeable number of families with children now live in apartments, and as our findings suggest, they struggle with expectations that children (and their sounds) do not belong. These families' experiences of high-density living reveal how the materiality of sound and built form interact with cultural norms to shape how apartment spaces are understood and inhabited. So too, how the emotions of everyday life co-construct apartment spaces and social relations (both within families and between neighbours). Physical proximity leads to tensions around acoustics and privacy, while apartment materiality creates an emotional dilemma between being a good parent and a good neighbour. Sound can lead to feelings of guilt, shame, and stress. We discuss such travails, as well as families' spatial, temporal and material coping strategies. Cultural and technical norms, we contend, must shift to support families with children in the consolidating vertical city.

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Section: Materiality Sound and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments

Kerr

Gibson

Klocker

2018

Emotion, Space and Society

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“…Substantial developments have been made in research methods that attend to the senses, including smell, taste, touch, sight and sound (Duffy, Waitt & Harada, 2016;Longhurst et al, 2008;Pink, 2009;Waitt, 2014); and to the role of mobility in research method (Büscher, Urry & Witchger, 2011;Dowling, Lloyd & Suchet-Pearson, 2016;Evans & Jones, 2011).…”

Section: Embodied Methods In More-than-human and Food Researchmentioning

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‘Try it, it’s like chocolate’: embodied methods reveal food politics

Wilbur

Gibbs

2018

Social & Cultural Geography

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Embodied methods have become popular tools for exploring subjective dimensions of social science research, including emotion and affect, as well as contributing substantively to empirical data. Concurrent growth of more-than-human research, in which the human subject is dethroned from an exclusive position of power and agency, offers an opportunity to explore methods beyond human subjectivity. This paper embraces this task by drawing on embodied methods in the context of food research, asking what the practices of transforming nonhuman matter into food reveal about the politics of food and the more-than-human world. Recounting field experiences from two discrete projects in Italy and Australia, we argue that being explicit about the role of the body in research has potential to elicit novel insights about politics and the contingency of human agency. Specifically, our research with food contributes to debates about the relationship between local knowledge and the market, animal welfare and farming standards, and wild foods and discourses of belonging. Disciplines Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…In Chapter 15, Karolina Doughty continues the focus on the presence of music across the spaces and situations of everyday life, exploring musical interventions in public space from the perspective of musical cosmopolitanism. The chapter considers whether an understanding of sonic experience as visceral (Waitt et al 2014;Duffy et al 2016) can help us rethink the potential of music as part of the performance of cosmopolitanism in everyday life. In the final chapter of Part III, Chapter 16, Kaya Barry explores the collective atmospheres of hostel dormitory rooms, showing how 'Instances of unexpected yet banal sounds, such as snoring or rearranging one's belongings, bring to the forefront a range of social negotiations between individuals and the collective space ' (p. 209).…”

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Sounding places: an introduction

Doughty¹,

Duffy²,

Harada³

2019

Sounding Places

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More-than-representational approaches to sound, place, and experienceResearch on sound and music in cultural geography has emerged in the wake of growing attention to more-than-representational aspects of social and spatial practices. This framework offers significant theoretical and methodological openings into our everyday worlds, for, as Anderson and Harrison (2010, p. 8) point out, 'what is being described here is a concern with and attention to emergent processes of ontogenesis, how bodies are actualised and individuated through sets of diverse practical relations'. Originating in the 1990s with Nigel Thrift's (2008) work on non-representational theories at Bristol University's School of Geographical Sciences, more-than-representational theories have had a significant impact on various disciplinary fields, especially that of cultural geography, and these theorizations continue to evolve. Currently, there is an ongoing discussion of the paradoxical naming of such conceptual tools, (here we refer to the non-, the more-than) and criticisms that the prefixes that seek to overcome the reductionist constraints of representation through their negation of representation, are strangely undermined and ineffective by their vagary (Harrison, forthcoming). Harrison in relation to the indeterminate neutrality of 'non-' exhorts that 'marrow must be added to its bones, heat to its blood' (forthcoming). It is here that we agree that these theories not only enable us, but compel us to make a contribution to the literature that seeks to understand the politics of everyday life. For the authors of this volume, more-than representational theory offers a rich framework and a generosity of approach; 'an umbrella term for diverse work that seeks to better cope with our self-evidently morethan-human, more-than-textual, multisensual worlds' (Lorimer 2005, p. 3).One of the aims of this book is to contribute to the development of theoretical and conceptual application of these approaches which involve a stronger focus on the spaces across which everyday life unfolds. For those of us exploring the sonic world-a world often difficult to capture in text form-the morethan-representational helps us to conceptualize, capture, be affected by and

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Making sense of sound: Visceral sonic mapping as a research tool

Cited by 90 publications

References 48 publications

Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments

Parenting and neighbouring in the consolidating city: The emotional geographies of sound in apartments

‘Try it, it’s like chocolate’: embodied methods reveal food politics

Sounding places: an introduction

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