The Soundscape of Quarantine: The Role of Sound During a Public Health Crisis
(2020)
author(s): Braxton Boren
published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people must remain indoors for a very long period of time. To mitigate the deleterious effects of a quarantine, several recommendations are proposed here to improve the soundscape for those under lockdown. Some voluntary and non-voluntary suggestions are offered to reduce low frequency noise transmission in adjacent apartment units. In addition, it is argued that reverberation and binaural rendering would provide a needed change of soundscape for those stuck indoors. Even these small measures may help make a long quarantine more tolerable so that more people stay inside until the crisis is over.
sin ∞ fin - The Movie | A performance-based art film project by VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke)
(2016)
author(s): Andrea Pagnes
published in: Research Catalogue
Inspired by Peter Sloterdijk’s investigation dissecting Micro- and Macro- spherology in his trilogy Spheres, and by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, the moving image project sin ∞ fin – The Movie by VestAndPage is based on various stages of research to conjugate performance art with filmmaking. Its final result consists of an art film trilogy produced along the course of three years in the following artist-in-residence programs: CONFL!CTA Contemporary Art and Science Research (Punta Arenas, Chile, 2010); Sarai CSDS Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (New Delhi, India, 2011); Cultural Program of the DNA Dirección Nacional del Antártico (Antarctica / Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012), and based on performances conceived site-specific.
Soundscape Peru, an audiovisual 360° installation Comparative analysis on the meaning of environmental sounds in different sound communities and their public facilitation
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Robin Frederico Wiemann
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The installation "Shucuyariy - An Audiovisual Journey in 360°" processes various themes within the framework of Acoustic Ecology in a 360° audiovisual installation. The interview, sound and video recordings on which the installation is based were created during a research trip through Peru and deal with the question of how communities from different regions of Peru perceive their acoustic environment and whether environmental sounds in the communities studied have a special meaning or a significant influence on the structuring of everyday life.
