Sonic Placemaking: (Re)Creating Place as a Comprehensive Compositional Practice
(2023)
author(s): Isaac Barzso
published in: KC Research Portal
This paper is focused on the development of a large-scale personal compositional practice centered around the concept of placemaking. Its content is focused on the relationship between data analysis, data sonification, and musical structure in the development of art which engages in a practice which I refer to as ‘sonic placemaking.’ In the end, this research intends to put this artistic practice in a space to interrogate the relationship between art and social change, both on small and large scales. The different sections of the paper will provide context and support for my practice's conceptual and philosophical background, drawing on related theoretical writings in geography, sociology, fine art, and composition while guiding the reader through my process in executing these concepts through works of multimedia art and acoustic composition — and, at the same time, actively questioning the ability of this process to influence social change and worldmaking.
critical place-making [score]
(last edited: 2021)
author(s): christian scott
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This research catalogue exposition, becomes an exploration of place/place-making via critical reflection and engagement with methods. A review of placemaking from a personal perspective and narrative, from a site-responsive practice that involves walking, sound, poetry.
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what are the practices, and normative assumptions that lead the practices and policies of placemaking in Montreal—among planners, city officials, urban studios, non-profits.
What is the role of play—as method—to make this processes more inclusive and diverse, in order to make more resilient and just cities.