The Sound Ethnography Project
is a sonic mapping experiment in novel ethnographic methods and forms. A
team of mostly graduate students in University of California-Irvine's anthropology department
is interested in trying to understand and represent relationships of
sound and space. The sonic ethnographies, thus far, include the buzz of
commerce on a shopping street in Quito, Ecuador, the polyphony of bird
song and silent Google Street View mappers in Tumbira, Amazon, an
extinct baile funk in Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro, and a performance of
Mauricio Kagel's "Eine Brise" for 11 bicyclists in Los Angeles. The form
is open. The maps are transient. Moments in space, time, and sound.
What the Sound Ethnography Project has mapped probably no longer exists.
http://norient.com/podcasts/sound-ethnography-project/
Bobo Djoulasso, City Sounds, Simon Grab 2006
Tony Schwartz, Sound of the city
Ethnographic recordings - the world in my worldbox
Harry Smith, Folksways
Social Music Work songs
Sim cards from northern Mali
http://norient.com/podcasts/sim-cards-from-northern-mali/
John Cage Roaratorio
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/music/cage_roaratorio.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_UlIB6bti8
Luigi Russolo "Veglio Di Una Città"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHLmitA3o6g
Soundmapping
http://aporee.org/
