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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00629
Thesis Title
The Yorkshire Soundscape Project: multi-disciplinary approaches to a sound artist’s experience of landscape within the framework of soundscape ecology and composition
Author
Tariq Emam
2nd Author
3rd Author
Degree
PhD in Music by Composition
Year
2017
Number of Pages
n/a
University
University of Hull
Thesis Supervisor
Rob Mackay
Supervisor e-mail
R.A.Mackay AT hull.ac.uk
Other Supervisor(s)
Matt Barnard (m.barnard@hull.ac.uk
Language(s) of Thesis
English
Department / Discipline
Music
Copyright Ownership
Tariq Emam / W
Languages Familiar to Author
English, Arabic
URL where full thesis can be found
TBC (http://cargocollective.com/tariqemam/Yorkshire-Soundscape-Project)
Keywords
soundscape, composition, acoustic ecology, soundscape ecology, Yorkshire dales, music, world soundscape project, archive, audio archive, psychogeography, national parks, geopolitics, nature, electroacoustic, ambisonic, stereo
Abstract: 200-500 words
The Yorkshire Soundscape Project was conceived to retrace sounds of an audio archive featuring the Yorkshire Dales and focuses on recording and representation in the search for change in a relatively unthreatened environment. Within the framework of soundscape ecology and composition, through a lens of psychogeography, this is a practice-based case study of a sound artist’s experience of landscape through archive, composition, and geopolitics of the ‘natural’ environment.  The madness (or, arts practice) activated by revisiting and retracing within the eerie English countryside has allowed new perspectives on the practice of composition inspired by archived material. This has given rise to certain questions on the interpretation of the archive through the imagination, and its relevance in a world wired by environmental politics, all set within a pastoral and typically English landscape.