Materiality and aural memory in theHarbour Symphony(St. John's, Newfoundland)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3138965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Galloway (0000-0003-2570-3135, Memorial University of Newfoundland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-143 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sound Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-1940 • E-ISSN: 2055-1959 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/20551940.2015.1079079 |
| OpenAlex | W2567325284 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The Harbour Symphony is a collection of site-specific works composed for, and performed within, the soundscape and landscape of the St. John's harbour. The Harbour Symphony is a creative endeavor intended to unite city and environment, people and their community in an awareness that harbour sounds and the acoustic environment constitute a part of St. John's heritage - one that should be valued, attended to, and preserved. Since its inception, numerous composers have created works that interpret the soundscape and landscape of St. John's harbour, particularly the distinct soundmarks of the tugboats, trawlers, and ocean freighters, positioning the city as a unique physical, cultural, and sonic site. This article addresses how the Harbour Symphony exploits the geographies of place and engenders an awareness of the local soundscape through contextual change. Ethnographic voices and aural histories detailing performance experience express the meanings embedded in sound and the power and place of memory. Grounded in ethnographic research, this article argues for an understanding of the shifting roles of everyday sounds and musicalized mechanical sound. The composers who contribute Harbour Symphonies are collectively concerned with issues of sonic experimentalism, the health and value of the acoustic environment, and the spatial- and temporal-contingent characteristics of environmental sound. This article engages with the compositional re-contextualization of industrial sounds and their technologies, and questions how place and soundscape impact and are inscribed in modern cultural expressions and comment upon shifting environments
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Contextualization · Ethnography · Harbour · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Sound (geography · Soundscape · Symphony · Temporalities · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
Mechanical Sound
Noise, Water, Meat
The Sound Studies Reader
Comparing topographies
The Strange Stillness of the Past
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology
Sound and Sentiment
Acoustemology, Indigeneity, and Joik in Valkeapää’s Symphonic Activism
Sound Escape
Rethinking the Soundscape
Embodied sound
The Role of the Composer (Part I)
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |