Sound, body, space & place: listening in Belfast city

These processes of listening and exploring sound were employed in order to produce accounts of the lived experience of Belfast city. Concurrently, I sought to determine what the specific contextualisation of these explorations could elucidate about sound and listening.<br><br>The relationship between sound and the construction and experience of space and place was of particular interest in these enquiries. More specifically, data from the field brought me towards analysing issues of control and the imposition of boundaries upon space, the construction of the places of memory, the construction of collectively meaningful places and contracts of behaviour operating in space which were determined by sounding and listening.

The manner in which participants discussed and documented sound led to an analysis of the act of field recording and the translation of auditory experience into linguistic representations.<br><br>A number of sound recordings are submitted and referenced within the text in order to elucidate certain projects and discussions or to present acoustic elements of the field in a non-textual manner. The integration of perspectives and methodologies Sound, body, space & place drawn from ethnomusicology, creative practices and sound studies proposes hybrid approaches and methods of analyses beneficial to each discipline.<br>