Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Birley Building, 53 Bonsall Street, Manchester M15 6GX, UK
Abstract
This paper concerns the spatial functions of field recordings, defined as audio recordings of the myriad soundings of the world. I suggest that field recordings are doing geographical work outside the usual academic repertoire of texts, numbers, maps, and images, and develop this idea through four arguments. First, I amplify the diversity of ways in which field recordings are used, distinguishing between four styles with different spatialities. Second, I argue that field recordings are both representational and performative, their playback doubling or hybridising space in the present through sound performed by an ensemble of audio machines. Third, following Elizabeth Grosz, I suggest that this performative reiteration of worldly vibration can be affectively potent. Field recordings thus demonstrate that representation and affect need not be opposed. Finally, I argue that field recordings can be understood as contributing to the production of space. Drawing on Lefebvre, I make a political-economic analysis of field recording, drawing attention to underlying processes of labour. The paper includes audio clips to demonstrate some of these arguments.
Subject
Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development
Cited by
69 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Bibliography;A Resonant Ecology;2024-08-30
2. Notes;A Resonant Ecology;2024-08-30
3. Conclusion;A Resonant Ecology;2024-08-30
4. Smartest Coast in the World?;A Resonant Ecology;2024-08-30
5. Ancestral War Hymns;A Resonant Ecology;2024-08-30