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ECOTONE (2025)

Niamh O Brien

About this exposition

I am a composer, musician and radio producer, and in this exposition I explore how I brought my artistic practice into dialogue with a cartographic approach called deep mapping to create a sound installation called ECOTONE: A Sonic Journey Through Kildimo-Pallaskenry. Deep mapping encompasses the discursive and ideological dimensions of a place, such as memories, imaginations and the multiple realities that exist in our surroundings (Bodenhamer et al. 2015; Roberts 2016; Biggs and Modeen 2020). The approach has spatial considerations and adheres to locations and boundaries, but what is added is a reflexive narrativity that includes the complexity of human stories and identities that exist in a place. Deep mapping has the capacity to bring together histories, mythologies, facts and fictions, and weave them together in expressing a place. In this work, which formed part of my practice-as-research PhD, I developed a sonic deep mapping approach that involves recording the music, sounds and stories of place, and re-imaging them through my composition practice. This research explores a new approach to understanding and representing place, and adds a new perspective to the field of deep mapping. I propose that my sonic deep mapping approach forges connections between creative process, people and place. It invites us to listen deeply to our surroundings and to create representations of place that bring us into the realm of imagination and connection. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdeep map, Sonic Arts, place, soundscape, field recording, sound installation
date29/12/2025
published29/12/2025
last modified29/12/2025
statuspublished
copyrightNiamh O Brien
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2501425/3970640
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.2501425
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue37. 37

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