Sound is an essential element that encircle our world, information can be gained through listening, which listening is a more advanced sense in that are fundamental to human. According to Helen Keller, hearing is the soul of knowledge and information of a high order. The disable of listening as if detached from the world, sound is also a factor built this nature, as Max Neuhaus mentioned sound has given context to a place. Sound is that important but in the same time too fundamental, the ordinariness of sound lead people‘s overlook on it. Contemporary sound artist attach great importance to the lost and unaware sound, through the practice of field recording and sound walking reignite concerns over the vanished sound around our life. This essay
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Westerkamp attempts to explore the soundscape of the park and discover how sound harmonize with the visual impression and importance of surrounding sound. This soundwalk has seven spot of listening location: 1.Entrance, 2.Kinfe-Edge, 3.Lookout, 4.Conservatory, 5.Sunken Garden, 6.Creek and 7.Quarry.Westerkamp provide instruction like”Listen to your footsteps and experiment with your own voice” ”Sit down and let the sounds of the flowing water soothe you” etc, to brainstorm the idea of soundwalk, but also pointed out some significant sound that creating a sense of acoustic space. At the end of the soundwalk, Westerkamp has questioned that whether the park is charming in the sense of acoustic or visual. Her question wasn’t to compare visual acoustic, but to show how listening is as essential as seeing. Her work demonstrates the interaction between human activity and the nature, via the sound of movement of the soundwalker created during the walk, every footstep and breathing has its sound which created a total different experience among the practitioners. Paying attention to every sound and think about its meaning in the walk, such as the sound generated by machines and vehicle have been reignited debate about noise and air pollution in environmental protection, the destruction to nature had to be stopped. In the spot of 4.Conservatory, Westerkamp and the …show more content…
My case study has shown that they both have a akin purpose in listening surroundings and finding unknown or undervalued sound. Organization like The World Listening Project (WLP) also promotes these two practices as the way to explore the neglected sound. It was organized to acknowledge the world and the natural environment, societies and culture through the practice of listening and field recording. An global soundwalking and field recording event organized by WLP had hit town on World listening Day(July 18) in 2016, with the theme ”Sounds Lost and found”, majority are invited to observe and listen into the change of soundscape around them. Also to spotlight the importance of preserving sound which is fragile and susceptible. Although the event wasn’t world spread enough and getting well-known in every society, but the purpose of “Sound Lost and found” did show the evidence that how field recording and soundwalking related to each other, in the way how WTP encourage majority begin both practices at the same time, while listening to the sound around us we can also practice field recording to capture some mysterious
Westerkamp attempts to explore the soundscape of the park and discover how sound harmonize with the visual impression and importance of surrounding sound. This soundwalk has seven spot of listening location: 1.Entrance, 2.Kinfe-Edge, 3.Lookout, 4.Conservatory, 5.Sunken Garden, 6.Creek and 7.Quarry.Westerkamp provide instruction like”Listen to your footsteps and experiment with your own voice” ”Sit down and let the sounds of the flowing water soothe you” etc, to brainstorm the idea of soundwalk, but also pointed out some significant sound that creating a sense of acoustic space. At the end of the soundwalk, Westerkamp has questioned that whether the park is charming in the sense of acoustic or visual. Her question wasn’t to compare visual acoustic, but to show how listening is as essential as seeing. Her work demonstrates the interaction between human activity and the nature, via the sound of movement of the soundwalker created during the walk, every footstep and breathing has its sound which created a total different experience among the practitioners. Paying attention to every sound and think about its meaning in the walk, such as the sound generated by machines and vehicle have been reignited debate about noise and air pollution in environmental protection, the destruction to nature had to be stopped. In the spot of 4.Conservatory, Westerkamp and the …show more content…
My case study has shown that they both have a akin purpose in listening surroundings and finding unknown or undervalued sound. Organization like The World Listening Project (WLP) also promotes these two practices as the way to explore the neglected sound. It was organized to acknowledge the world and the natural environment, societies and culture through the practice of listening and field recording. An global soundwalking and field recording event organized by WLP had hit town on World listening Day(July 18) in 2016, with the theme ”Sounds Lost and found”, majority are invited to observe and listen into the change of soundscape around them. Also to spotlight the importance of preserving sound which is fragile and susceptible. Although the event wasn’t world spread enough and getting well-known in every society, but the purpose of “Sound Lost and found” did show the evidence that how field recording and soundwalking related to each other, in the way how WTP encourage majority begin both practices at the same time, while listening to the sound around us we can also practice field recording to capture some mysterious