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Toward the Sound of Place
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There is an inherent problem with the conception and construction of contemporary sound-based mappings. These documents are most often presented as two-dimensional graphic representations of space with icons or arrows denoting the site from which each sonic fragment was collected. What these maps fail to capture is the fluid and interconnected nature of sounds-in-space over time – what I prefer to call sounds-through-space. In order for listeners to communicate their experience, and for scholars to analyze compiled data, it is necessary to consider new paradigms in map-making while reexamining the process of mapping itself (Mitchell 2008, Crampton and Krygier 2006, Kitchin 2012). What we understand to be an accurate or “true” representation of physical space as expressed through paper or digitally-presented graphic maps only present the viewer with the information that established practices of cartography deem important. My research explores the practice of aural map-making with an emphasis on defining the relationship among sound, mapping, and mobility. My goal is to create a framework for the development of new forms of aural cartography that incorporate the physical, embodied experience of moving through sound-in-space – not just as a listener, but as a participant directly engaged in the act of listening and exploring. The aim of this article is to demonstrate one alternative cartographic approach to documenting large-scale sounding environments as interconnected wholes of myriad arenas all operating through fluid relationships
Silence and the Notion of the Commons
Get PDFIn a technological world where the acoustic environment is largely artificial, silence takes on new dimensions, be it in terms of the human need for silence (perhaps a person’s right to be free of acoustic assaults), in terms of communication, or as the intentional modification of the environment.
This discussion consists of two separate but interrelated parts: 1) Silence as Spiritual Experience, drawing largely but not exclusively on the Quaker tradition of religious worship, and 2) Silence as a Common Good. The notion of silence will be examined in terms of the general patterns of the social impact of modern technology. Silence possesses striking similarities with those aspects of life and community such as unpolluted water, air or soil, that were once taken as normal and given, but have become special and precious in technologically mediated environments
"With the Calm, Comes Silence"
Get PDFIn the Soundscape Journal (Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2000, p.19), I wrote from the Isles of Harris and Lewis in Scotland’s remote Outer Hebrides, describing something of its people and places, and the soundscape work I was embarking on there. At that time, the Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments (TESE) was in its early stages. Our guiding aims were to, “describe and document the social, cultural and natural make up of the islands through their soundscape” and, most importantly, to involve the local people in the process. Spring 2002—and many months later the project in the islands is now coming towards an end, with final preparations being made for exhibition in April and May. 1 Various parts to the project have evolved during this time. In this article, I will relate some of the exercises involving a class of primary school children from Cross in Ness, on the Isle of Lewis, and give voice to some of the sound poetry and sound journals that they produced..
“Musique Concrète” as one of the Preliminary Steps to Acoustic Ecology
Get PDFWhat are the theoretical and practical outcomes of “Musique Concrète” and their echoes in today’s practice of Acoustic Ecology? How does the discipline of Acoustic Ecology provide new elements for a better understanding of the foundations of “Musique Concrète”?
In his Studio d’Essai, in the 1940s, while experimenting with the genre of the Radio Play, Théâtre Radiophonique, and questioning the modifications brought to the act of listening by new audio technologies, Pierre Schaeffer discovered a new attitude (Acousmatic) and a new concept (the Sound Object), both of which were to form the basis for “Musique Concrète”.
“Musique Concrète” is not a renewal or a modernization of music through a renewal of its auditory material. The purpose is not to introduce new types of sounds and make them available for musical compositions. “Musique Concrète” is also not a renewal of music through new methods and techniques of composing. “Musique Concrète” is a renewal of music in the sense of what Schaeffer names as the primordial activity involved in music: Listen- ing. Exactly in the same way R. Murray Schafer names listening-to- the-environment as the foundation of Acoustic Ecology
History Teaching In A Museological Space: An Experience at The Rio Grande Do Sul Memorial, Brazil
Get PDFThis paper aims to discuss issues concerning the teaching of History in museological spaces, based on the narrative of an experience at the Rio Grande do Sul Memorial, a place that generated the teaching-learning process of students who visited this space. We start from the narrative of the mediated educational action on the itinerant exhibition “Monuments and art: the history of the city at risk”, which exposed a series of monuments and public statues taken from the streets of Porto Alegre. By means of these pieces, the mediation sought to reflect on the silenced stories behind those sculptures, aiming to perceive other actors and groups silenced by the patrimonialization process. From a theoretical point of view, it drew on Vygotsky (2010) and Bakhtin (1992), with regard to interactive mediation; Siman (2013), with regard to teaching History through reading the city; and Ramos (2016), on the concept of generator object. Finally, it is believed that the students took possession of plural historical narratives about the city, through the narratives exposed and silenced by the urban historical heritage
Applying Insider Risk Mitigation: Contemporary Issues
Get PDFOn July 20, 2023, Victor Munro, Executive Director of the Insider Risk Management Centre of Excellence, presented on the contemporary issues surrounding the field of insider risk management. The presentation focused on three significant areas: 1) the nexus between whistleblower protections and insider threat management; 2) the balance of mitigating threats without compromising; and 3) the post-COVID impact on threat vectors and role of artificial intelligence in threat mitigation and organizational culture. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were technical/behavioral indicators related to at-risk employees and distinction between intentional and unintentional threat behavior
Distant Murmurs: Gothic Soundscapes in Literature
Get PDFThis paper examines the literary soundscapes of Matthew Lewis’ 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk, with particular attention afforded to instances in which the interpretive ambiguities of listening serve to blur ontological distinctions between bodies and landscapes. In keeping with the genre’s preference for labyrinthine architecture and nocturnal scenes, The Monk unfolds almost entirely within darkness, its characters’ ears straining towards the gloom as they desperately seek to interpret their surroundings. Amongst the novel’s passageways, sepulchres, monasteries, and forests, a procession of low murmurs, faint echoes, and indistinct groans, all serve to dramatise the semiotic ambiguity of the auditory. In doing so, The Monk provides an ideal case study of sound’s entangled status; simultaneously material and interpretive.
This paper takes place against the backdrop of literary sound studies; a rapidly evolving discipline advanced by scholars such as Isabela van Elferen, Elena Glotova, and Kristie Ann Schlauraff, whose publications have recast the Gothic genre as a reservoir of historical listening and sounding practices. In dialogue with this emergent discipline, this paper, Distant Murmurs: Gothic Soundscapes in Literature, hazards a departure from historical analysis, and closes with a consideration of the potential for Gothic literature’s sonic tropes to inform contemporary sound-based practices
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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile offers students and scholars a fundamental tool in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. The project aims to produce over the next six years complete microfiche facsimiles of the nearly five hundred manuscripts containing Old English. Each issue or volume will present facsimiles and descriptions of about ten manuscripts prepared by one or more scholars. The facsimiles are in most cases produced from existing film stock provided by the holding libraries. New photography will be limited to those manuscripts not yet photo graphed or poorly photographed. Images provided will be up to the standards expected of a good microfilm reproduction. Each description provides in brief compass the manuscript's history, codicological features, a collation, a detailed list of contents, and a selected bibliography, as well as notes on special features and problems. The descriptions are intended to be used with the photographic images to maximize their usefulness to scholars who do not have immediate access to the originals or who may be previously unacquainted with the manuscript and its scholarship.
Manuscripts are reproduced in toto, even though the post-Anglo-Saxon
material that is found as part of many of them may demonstrate no immediate or ultimate relationship with Anglo-Saxon interests. To have edited the facsimiles, presenting only confirmed Anglo-Saxon parts, could well eliminate important material to be noticed or discovered and in any case removes the Anglo-Saxon vestiges from their actual material con texts. Users must decide for themselves the relevance of the images presented in this series. Several later manuscripts are included in this series even though they were not considered Anglo-Saxon by Neil R. Ker; in our view, these manuscripts seem to have clear connections with or bearings on undoubted Anglo-Saxon texts.
Each manuscript is assigned a main catalogue number for this series, which is given before the shelfmark. This catalogue number is concorded with the catalogue numbers of Ker and Gneuss. A comprehensive list of ASM numbers will be issued with the series, together with a concordance-list of Ker numbers. Cumulative indexes will be issued from time to time, and a general index and an index of incipits will be published as
the final volume of the series. The manuscript descriptions, after being revised, will also be published as a separate publication towards the conclusion of this project. The editors request that any errors, omissions, or relevant new scholarship be brought to their attention.
The editors wish to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Materials Divisions, for a generous grant in support of the project. The editors also wish to express their gratitude to the director and staff of the British Library for permission to reproduce the manuscripts, for agreeing to waive fees for rights to reproduction, and for their enthusiastic support for this project. Finally, the editors wish to thank Mario A. Di Cesare and the staff of Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies for agreeing to undertake the publication of this project and for their close cooperation throughout its production.
THE EDITOR
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Get PDF© Copyright 1994Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance StudiesState University of New York at BinghamtonLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in microfiche facsimile / Phillip Pulsiano, general editor; A.N. Doane, executive director ; Ro_nald E. Buckalew, associate editor ; editorial and advisory board, Carl T. Berkhout ... [et al.] [descriptions by A.N. Doane].p. cm. - (Medieval & renaissance texts & studies; v. 136,) In English with segments in Anglo-Saxon and Latin.Provides descriptions of manuscripts held in various libraries, including the manuscript's history, codicological features, collation, list of contents, notes on special features and problems, and selected bibliography.May be used as guide to microfiche collection with the same title. Contents: v. 1. Books of prayers and healing.ISBN 0-86698-141-11. Great Britain-History-Anglo-Saxon period, 445-1066- Sources-Manuscripts-Facsimiles-Indexes. 2. Civilization, Anglo Saxon-Manuscripts-Facsimiles-Indexes. 3. Manuscripts, English (Old)-Facsimiles-Indexes. I. Pulsiano, Phillip, 1955- . II. Doane, Alger Nicolaus, 1938- . III. Buckalew, Ronald E. IV. Series. [DA150]015'.31-dc20 94-37257This book is made to last.It is set in ACaslon,saddle-stitched, and printed on acid-free paper to library specifications.
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IN MICROFICHE FACSIMILE
Volume 1
Books of Prayers and Healing
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A. N. Doane
Phillip Pulsiano: General Editor | A. N. Doane: Executive Director | Ronald E. Buckalew: Associate Editor
Editorial and Advisory Board
Carl T. Berkhout ◊ Mildred Budny ◊ Malcolm Godden ◊ Kevin Kiernan ◊
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe ◊ Andrew Prescott
Paul E. Szarmac