QUEST Webinar: Sound as method

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Sound as method

Wednesday 7 February 13.00-15.00

The next event in the QUEST/NCRM/SCDTP online seminar series focuses on sound as method in qualitative social research. It will take place on Zoom via Eventbrite.

 

Creating sound archive to understand urban heritage 

Rishika Mukhopadhyay

Dr Rishika Mukhopadhyay is a lecturer in development geography at School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton. Her broad research strands are meaning, production and politics of living heritage, community-based economies and heritage driven urban redevelopment politics. 

Rishika is facilitating the session. She will be speaking on the use of sound to understand the sensory heritage of the city. Her talk will focus on the method of creating a sound archive through participatory means and ways to overlap them with literary excerpts. Sound collected through this method, will lead to reflect on how sound installation can help to invite the public to think about loss and memory to develop a renewed sense of everyday heritage. 

 

Sensing sound and composing affective practices

Elona M Hoover

Dr Elona Hoover is an ESRC South Coast DTP postdoctoral fellow at the University of Brighton. Her research interests include urban commoning, affective practices, relational ethics, and the feminist political ecologies of extractivism, with a commitment to transdisciplinary collaborations that weave together art, activism, and critical scholarship.

Elona will share a practice of working with sound as one technique for sensing and attending to affective practices in my ethnographic fieldwork with urban commoning projects in London and Paris. From collecting samples in the field, to cataloguing, and composing, she will explore how sound can be a generative way of working with the messiness of ethnographic fieldwork and analysis, and how it is particularly valuable for doing research concerned with affect, ethical relationality and radical otherness. She will share the process of composing a soundtrack that echoes a written analysis of affective practices relating to discomfort, urgency and ineffability, showing how composition is a practice that can put things together and retain heterogeneity at the same time. 

 

The different levels of collaboration at play in Constellations: Experiments in Multi-Media Ethnography

Matilde Meireles

Dr Matilde Meireles is a sound artist and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. Her work has a multi-sensorial and multi-perspective critical approach to site, where Matilde investigates the potential of listening across spectrums as ways to encounter and articulate a plural experience of the world. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford in the project Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism (SONCITIES).

Matilde will introduce the collaborative methodologies and interdisciplinary research behind the media-rich online platform Constellations: Experiments in Multi-Media Ethnography. The project is a result of an ethnographic study centred on sonic trajectories in and out of  Brixton, an area of London marked by conflicting urban social processes. The fieldwork instigated inclusive and critical ways of listening as ways to gain an insight into the multiple sound worlds of Brixton and their interconnectedness. The multisensory and complex nature of this forcefield of relations is explored in the platform using multi-media materials collected by both researchers and project participants. The people-centred qualitative study sat at the intersection of ethnography and sound arts and was developed as part of Sonorous Cities: Towards a Sonic Urbanism research project.

 

Cost:

Free to attend - registration required

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International

Keywords:

Participatory Research, Ethnographic Research, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research, Arts-based methods, Data Collection (other), Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination

Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Participatory Research
Ethnographic Research
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research
Arts-based methods
Data Collection (other)
Research Skills, Communication and Dissemination

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